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Sean Savage

The legislation, which is 2,741 pages long, includes millions to protect synagogues, Iron Dome and Holocaust survivors, and is the culmination of months of negotiations.
“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.
“For far too long, BDS has been able to masquerade as a social-justice movement in America, while spreading vile Jew-hatred, and inciting hate and violence,” says Liora Rez, executive director of StopAntiSemitism.org.
In 2011, South Carolina State. Rep. Alan Clemmons introduced a landmark “Standing With Israel” resolution that laid out the factual and legal rejection of the accusation that Israel is an occupier in Judea and Samaria. The bill went on to pass in over a dozen other states and be adopted into the Republican Party platform.
It aims to hold the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights, also known as Education for a Just Peace in the Middle East, liable for conspiring to provide financial aid and other assistance to Palestinian terror groups that make up the Boycott National Committee, which leads the BDS movement.