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Sean Savage

With a wide-open field of nine candidates to succeed Democrat Rep. Joe Kennedy, some fear that a split of the pro-Israel/Jewish vote could let a pro-BDS candidate enter Congress.
An ongoing escalation between Azerbaijan and its neighbor Armenia is threatening to spill over into an all-out conflict that could draw in regional powers like Russia, Turkey, Iran and maybe even Israel.
The devastating effects of COVID-19 that have ravaged Western Europe and the United States have so far spared Jewish communities in Eastern Europe, even as Russia is now in its crosshairs.
“The Valley’s depth creates a formidable barrier and provides a far more defensible boundary than the so-called Green Line, or pre-1967 line, especially in the current geostrategic context of an increasingly violent and unpredictable Middle East,” states a report issued by JINSA.
Efforts to link police brutality in America with the Israel Defense Forces maintaining security against Palestinian attacks have flooded the Internet, used as propaganda by the BDS movement.
A letter penned by more than 200 Jewish “student leaders” states that ZOA national president Mort Klein should be reprimanded for “a pattern of racist and Islamophobic behavior.”
According to Jason Guberman, executive director of the American Sephardi Federation, the Islamic regime has for decades “waged a disgraceful campaign to persecute Persian Jews, as well as to politicize and desecrate Jewish holy sites in Iran.”
“A curriculum based on a narrowly focused and politicized approach consciously and erroneously divides Californians into ‘people of color,’ on the one hand, and all other supposedly ethnic and non-ethnic whites, on the other,” wrote the groups.
The Durham City Council voted in April 2018 to ban its police from engaging in international exchanges, where officers could receive “military-style training” in foreign countries.
The conference comes after the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights launched two investigations into UCLA for its repeated failure to “prevent a hostile campus environment for its Jewish campus community in direct violation of the school’s Title VI obligations.”
The anti-Semitic attacks in New York—home to the largest numbers of Jewish residents in the country—are largely being carried out by members of minority communities, leading to a different set of questions for leaders to grapple with.
The arrest of Khalida Jarrar, who ran terror operations in the West Bank and is linked to the BDS movement against Israel, could spur further action by U.S. authorities against BDS entities.