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“Anti-BDS legislation is about commercial activities, not about people’s ability to speak,” says the 33-year-old. “People are free to criticize Israel; that is a protected right. But organized boycotting and divestment with the support of state, local or federal government is not acceptable.”
The council’s membership consists of more than 1,000 imams from all Islamic denominations and schools of thought, according to its website.
Issues focus on far-left and far-right threats in the United States, as well as Israel’s security and reactions to the elimination of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani.
U.S. citizens born in the capital must request that their place of birth be listed as “Israel,” or it will continue to be listed as “Jerusalem,” says U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
“This recognition of Israel’s capital is a further affirmation of the crucial principle that Jerusalem is, and always will be, Israel’s capital,” said B’nai B’rith International CEO Daniel Mariaschin.
With the balance of the Senate in question, here are five contests deemed very close in states with significant Jewish populations.
They have been limited due to the coronavirus, but are using online and old-fashioned sources, including the phone, to get their messages across, especially in states with high Jewish populations.
She succeeds the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a Jewish icon who was the second woman to serve on the nation’s highest court, and who, in her opening statement on Oct. 12 in front of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, Barrett paid tribute to.
“Through decades of support and deepening ties, America and Israel have demonstrated that the security and viability of the Jewish state is not up for debate, and those seeking peace and prosperity benefit from a relationship with Israel,” said AIPAC.