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Leonard Grunstein

Leonard Grunstein is a retired attorney, banker and co-author of Because It’s Just and Right: The Untold Back-Story of the U.S. Recognition of Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel and Moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem. He is the founder and chairman of Project Ezrah, a nonprofit that supports those facing unemployment with job-search assistance and counseling. A descendant of Polish Holocaust survivors, he helped fund an archive on Jewish life in Poland through the YIVO Institute.

Contrary to the assertions by some, including members of the Senate, Title VI’s use of the IHRA definition doesn’t violate the First Amendment.
Boycotters are not entitled to make up and execute their own contrived foreign policy or otherwise discriminate against a U.S. citizen in Israel.
Quoting from President Donald Trump’s executive order to combat antisemitism, the U.S. Department of Justice has filed a Statement of Interest in a lawsuit against UCLA.
Whatever rights Arab residents of Judea, Samaria and eastern Jerusalem may have had to assert any claim to sovereignty over these areas were given over to Jordan.
Foreign terror groups use charitable and social entities to train students and others on how to use the U.S. legal or political systems on their behalf.
The Waqf’s own guide recognizes, that the Jews and Holy Temple were there long before the Arabs began their occupation of Jerusalem.
If Israel accepts this proposal, then the United States and other nations should rightly support such a union.
BDS is a malevolent scheme directed at delegitimizing Israel and undermining it as a haven for Jews.
The League of Nations agreed on “the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine and to the grounds for reconstituting their national home in that country.”
U.S. President Joe Biden can and should revoke any immunity for UNRWA employees facing charges stemming from Oct. 7.
It’s time for a Kennedy-esque public show of force by the president and U.S. Justice Department of the sort that occurred in 1963.