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Accompanying U.S. Attorney General William Barr was U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Richard Donoghue and head of New York’s FBI office William Sweeney.
“It is now essential that Palestinians forego the path of violence, boycotts and the criminalization of differences at international forums and return to peace talks with Israel,” stated AIPAC.
“For too long, the heart of Israel has been outrageously branded as illegally occupied territory,” said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “Today, Mr. President, you are puncturing this big lie.”
If enacted, it would expand the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s education programming to teachers nationwide, requiring the museum to develop and disseminate resources to improve awareness and understanding of the Holocaust and its lessons.
“The very founding of this organization is in part to help arrest some of the troubling rhetorical trends we see on the fringes,” according to founder and chair Noah Arbit.
Two major party leaders don’t “come to Washington just for a conversation,” which poses questions as to why an initiative would be released a month before the third round of Israeli elections, says Aaron David Miller, a former Mideast negotiator.
The conference comes after the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights launched two investigations into UCLA for its repeated failure to “prevent a hostile campus environment for its Jewish campus community in direct violation of the school’s Title VI obligations.”
Anti-Semitism is rearing its ugly head in other ways, he says—not just in temples, but in communities, and in local governments and schools, not to mention on campaign signs.
“The threat of effective BDS right now is minimal, but if its message persuades a new generation of activists who will become social and political leaders, the movement could have a lot more bite,” said research analyst David May.
“I find the poster personally offensive,” said Women’s March Chicago co-organizer Harlene Ellin. “But I respect the right of the [people] carrying it to voice their opinion.”
From wellness centers to addressing BDS and anti-Semitism, Hillel “plays a fundamental role when it comes to creating new avenues for Jewish identity-building that specifically address the changing Jewish community,” says new president and CEO Adam Lehman.
“The people in the state of Idaho are generally very pro-Israel, and that’s just part of our culture, part of our conservative nature,” he told JNS.