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Shiryn Ghermezian

“I am passionate about empowering women to take part in the conversation and have a seat at the table, and I think that the world would be a better place if more women did that,” said Inna Vernikov, chairwoman of Women’s Committee for Americans Against Antisemitism.
The postponement of the Palestinian resolution is “nothing to celebrate right now,” and that the real “victory or a success will be when we have real negotiations and a peace treaty signed,” said Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon.
“The goal of this conference was to bring international herbal research to Israel,” said Sara Chana Silverstein, an Orthodox Jewish master herbalist from New York. “For BDS to attack this conference limits knowledge for the world.”
Theodor Herzl, the father of modern-day Zionism, convened the first Zionist Congress in 1897 in Basel, Switzerland. In 2020, a total of 15 slates are running in the World Congress elections.
“The choice by many victims of the Nazis to document their experiences through art was a form of resistance, and it was one that left a critically important set of records for future generations,” says Jack Kliger, president and CEO of the Museum of Jewish Heritage–A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in New York City.
“I have more information on my side, whereas before I was kind of hazy. I didn’t really know what to say, how to reach that person. But now, I feel like I can tailor my persuasion more effectively,” said Stephen Omorogbe, a Nigerian senior at Kennesaw State University in Georgia.
The government could have expressed support for a two-state solution in ways that “would have been more effective and avoided adding credibility to the distorted, anti-Israel narrative that adversaries seek to advance within the U.N.,” said Shimon Fogel of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs.
“The World Zionist Congress is the ‘parliament of the people.’ This is the best way for American Jews to vote for their voice in Israel,” said Herbert Block of the American Zionist Movement.
She charged the world body for exhibiting a “culture of entitlement and unaccountability,” as well as a “culture of bullying” that has causes it to “time and again” fail to “live up to its charter.”
“For many reasons, awareness of our communities’ history is not at the level it should be. We welcome any opportunity to educate and engage diplomats and foreign dignitaries on the story of the ignored and forgotten Jewish refugees,” said JIMENA board member Nathaniel Malka.
“The ADL has failed to call out any form of anti-Semitism that isn’t borne of white supremacy, and their curriculum is more about tolerance and racism in general than it is about the unique history of anti-Semitism,” said Bryan Leib, a board member of Americans Against Anti-Semitism.
“Too many people in the Labour Party believed it was just a case of a few bad apples for far too long,” said former Labour Party MP Joan Ryan at the ADL’s “Never Is Now” summit. “By the time Labour became institutionally anti-Semitic, it was far too late to root out the Jew-haters.”