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Jackson Richman

Issues related to Israel have come up on the state level with such as efforts to pass anti-BDS measures, which have been approved by 25 states in recent years.
“Unfortunately, this violent attack—the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in the United States since 2014—occurs at time when the ADL has reported an increase in both anti-Semitic incidents and anti-Semitic online harassment.”
The Iowa congressman, a staunch supporter of the Jewish state, has endorsed a white supremacist running in the Toronto mayoral race, which poses a real problem to Jewish groups and individuals.
If enacted, a new bill would establish a Palestinian Partnership Fund to conduct and finance joint economic initiatives and personal exchanges between Israelis and Palestinians.
“Those settlements make it so that it can’t be,” said Antonio Delgado, who is running against Republican Rep. John Faso in New York’s 19th Congressional District.
“It’s a slander and a grotesque mischaracterization of the State of Israel, which is an exemplary member of the community of democracies,” says Dan Mariaschin, B’nai B’rith International CEO and executive vice president.
“Why do we have to be afraid to publicly expose those who are rabidly anti-Semitic? Have we learned nothing from our tragic past? When we remain silent, we are trampled on,” says Brooke Goldstein, executive director of the Lawfare Project.
American Jewish leaders and Israel-related groups express mixed reactions over the Israeli Supreme Court’s controversial decision to allow the entry of BDS activist Lara Alqasem, with some accusing the court of overstepping its boundaries.
“Criticizing a nation-state and promoting human rights is not in any way anti-Semitic,” said Rose Asaf. “I am in solidarity with Palestinians not in spite of my Judaism, but because of it.”
With the Middle East at the forefront of foreign-policy concerns, the pro-Israel community needs to take a good hard look at the issues that matter.
The reactions of Jewish and Israel-related groups are mixed over Israel denying entry earlier this month to 22-year-old American BDS activist Lara Alqasem, whose case will be heard by Israel’s Supreme Court after the Tel Aviv District Court rejected her appeal.
The potential move by Australia to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and relocate the embassy there would mark a major shift in policy in support of the Jewish state by a world power following the United States’s decision late last year.