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“He didn’t want to talk at all and almost canceled the meeting,” Moran Stella Yanai said of a 2024 sitdown with U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres.
A recent, pro-Hamas demonstration outside a Queens synagogue was “not free expression,” she said. “That’s harassment, and targeting a Jewish community in this way is antisemitism.”
Rabbi A.D. Motzen, who praised the move, told JNS that there is no opt-out mechanism.
“The U.N. has a responsibility to uphold its own rules, not bend them to appease extremists or reward antisemitism,” Rep. Mike Lawler said.
Organizers of Adelaide Writers’ Week say Randa Abdel-Fattah’s participation following the Chanukah mass shooting on Bondi Beach would be “culturally insensitive,” given her past remarks.
“Iranian citizens braver than you could dream of being are sacrificing their lives in the fight for their own liberation, and all you can find to say is ‘it’s the Jews’ fault,’” she said.
Mahmoud Khalil, former spokesman for the anti-Israel encampment at Columbia University, led the crowd in a “free, free Palestine” chant.
The podcaster, who is not Jewish, said antisemitism is behind accusations that he took $6 million from AIPAC.
Antisemitism will only go away when everyone “rejects all of it, no matter what,” Rep. Greg Landsman said.
“It’s not a surprise that these activists would escalate their tactics to go directly to the targets of their indoctrination,” Mika Hackner, of the North American Values Institute, told JNS.
“Religious schools cannot be shut out of state programs just because they are religious,” an attorney for the school stated.
There will be “some opportunities to drive back some of that darkness on the horizon with concerted action by Jews and non-Jews alike,” Noah Shack, of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, told JNS.