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Jackson Richman

“We have strict guidelines on who we work with, and that’s simply not just what we do, but across the U.S. government,” said USAID administrator Mark Green. “We follow administration policy.”
The Senate unanimously passed its version in October. The bill now goes to the president to sign it into law.
The bill mandates that the president impose sanctions on any entity that “knowingly and materially supports, orders, controls, directs or otherwise engages in” the exercise of human shields by the terrorist organizations Hezbollah and Hamas.
“I’ll do everything I can as a member of Congress to speak out against anti-Semitic activities in the U.S. and throughout the world.”
The fruits of this labor were on display this week when the U.N. General Assembly considered a U.S.-sponsored resolution condemning the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas for the first time. The resolution received strong support, especially from Israel’s allies in Europe and elsewhere.
“We hope she will continue in the path of Ambassador Nikki Haley as a strong supporter of Israel, calling out the bias against it within the U.N. system, and pointing to Iran as a major source of global instability,” said B’nai B’rith International CEO Daniel Mariaschin.
At the earlier Hanukkah reception, U.S. President Donald Trump recognized eight Holocaust survivors, remarking they had experienced “evil beyond description.”
The final tally, which was conducted by a secret ballot, was 35 votes in favor, 14 against and 14 abstentions. The BDS measure was backed by 51 campus groups and 34 faculty members.
“It is disturbing that the International Socialist Organization, an off-campus group, was heavily involved in this campaign,” said Ron Krudo, executive director of campus affairs for StandWithUs.
The longtime supporter of Israel, who once worked with Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek, is “absolutely opposed to a boycott of any kind both in terms of disinvestment, as well as in the attacks on Israeli academics by the British Union.”
Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) is looking to insert into the upcoming must-pass spending legislation this month his proposed measure that would require the Department of Education to adopt the State Department’s definition of anti-Semitism in evaluating incidents on college campuses and at other educational institutions.
The Vermont State Police and the Northampton Police Department in Massachusetts have canceled their scheduled trips to the Jewish state for a training program, called Resilience and Counter-Terrorism, days before it was supposed to commence.