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Jackson Richman

J Street U and Students for Justice in Palestine chapters at the University of Vermont released corresponding letters last week blasting the school’s Hillel for accepting funds from the pro-Israel group Maccabee Task Force.
Democratic New Jersey Sen. Booker, 49, who represents a state with more than half a million Jews, labeled BDS as an “anti-Jewish movement.”
“It really goes to show how colossally poor of a decision it was for Democratic leadership to put someone on the House Foreign Affairs Committee whose animus towards Jews and Israel so clouds her judgement that she can’t recognize that Israel is not only a democracy, but the only one in the Middle East,” said RJC spokesperson Neil Strauss.
Rikola-Gunnar Luettgenau of the Buchenwald memorial foundation said this plan shows a “lack of sensitivity” and a “lack of historical awareness.”
“As the president has made clear, entities that continue to engage in sanctionable activity involving Iran risk severe consequences,” the U.S. State Department told JNS.
“We are not seeking anything. The Americans have made a decision,” said senior Palestinian official Saeb Erekat. “But we are going to continue being part of fighting terror in the region.”
Former Pentagon official Michael Rubin said that “the intelligence community has a long history of playing word games and redefining what steps toward a nuclear bomb constitute.”
“As far as our allies are concerned, there’s no greater ally in the world than Israel. It’s very important that we maintain that relationship.”
The Strengthening America’s Security in the Middle East Act rolls four different bills into one.
“Our country is a Judeo-Christian country, and our laws are founded on the Ten Commandments. I’m very solidly pro-Israel; it would be ludicrous not to be.”
A federal judge upheld an Arkansas law that forbids state agencies from investing in or contracting with companies that boycott Israel.
While several pro-Israel groups criticized the appointment of Rep. Ilhan Omar, who has endorsed BDS, as a “dangerous development,” others expressed confidence in the pro-Israel leadership of the committee to counter her. J Street contends the attacks on her are “bigoted and deeply wrong.”