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“He really was the Jackie Robinson of Jewish-American fiction,” said Jonathan Karp, president and publisher of Simon & Schuster, and editor of Wouk’s final book, Sailor and Fiddler, which was published in 2015.
“The administration must unequivocally condemn the original decision and ensure that a similar incident never happens again,” said Roz Rothstein, CEO of StandWithUs.
“We believe he can bring the same energy and imagination to Federation. He’s the right leader at the right time,” said chair of the JFNA Board of Trustees Mark Wilf.
“Let me be really clear, suggesting that support for Israel is beholden to a foreign power is absolutely unacceptable—and it’s illogical, too,” he said. “I’m a proud American who believes in the State of Israel and believes it must exist.”
“At the end of the day, I think it’s incumbent on Americans to stand by its friend and ally,” said Rep. Van Taylor (R-Texas).
“The Iftar is a time for reflection, piety and growing closer to God. Every year, this event is a special opportunity for people of many faiths to grow together,” said Austin Mayor Steve Adler.
“The Harvard Lampoon is garbage,” tweeted Catherine Zhang, a senior at the university.
“What you are seeing today out of some of my colleagues on the Democratic side in the House is a kind of vitriol of anti-Semitism,” U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) .
“They’re talking about me, they’re talking about my family, they’re talking about my community,” said Temple Beth-El Rabbi Michael Knopf. “So, it’s impossible to not take that personally.”
“Congresswoman [Rashida] Tlaib’s ignorance is exceeded only by her gall. Had she read no further than Wikipedia, she would know that the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Amin al-Husseini, helped the Nazis recruit Bosnian Muslims for the Waffen-SS,” said American Jewish scholar Jonathan Sarna.
“This is not an ‘even-handed’ situation, but Palestinian terrorism and violence across an international border that every candidate and elected official should be able to condemn unequivocally,” Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, stated unequivocally.
A Democratic candidate for president, the mayor of Miramar, Fla., recently visited Israel and the disputed territories, where he remains convinced in the viability of at a two-state solution as a way to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.