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“We have to plan for all possibilities,” said a State Department spokesman, amid congressional legislation to defund the scandal-plagued agency.
Protesters targeted the Texas senator’s home and the site of a fundraiser he attended.
Visiting Israel in 2014 was “one of the most formative and transformative experiences” in the N.Y. Democrat’s life, he told JNS.
“Coloradans can rest easier knowing that a dangerous person is behind bars,” said Cole Finegan, the U.S. attorney for the district of Colorado.
GOP leaders, who proposed stand-alone Israel funding, said the Senate bill is “dead on arrival,” for insufficiently addressing the immigration crisis on the U.S. southern border.
The bill would require the U.S. Secretary of State to submit regular reports on the curriculum and materials being taught.
The group, organized by the Jewish Federations of North America, also spoke to congressional representatives about security for faith-based nonprofits.
“Joe Biden’s fallacious executive order against our ally Israel is another foreign policy failure by the Biden administration,” said Jeff Duncan of South Carolina.
Elliot Resnick spent some 50 minutes in the Capitol building during the 2021 riot.
Congress should “conduct oversight of these arms transfers and determine whether they are consistent with humanitarian principles,” they wrote.
“We vigorously denounce South Africa’s deeply hostile stance towards Israel and thoroughly reject its charge of genocide,” the congress members wrote.
“Any government worker who walks off the job to protest U.S. support for our ally Israel is ignoring their responsibility and abusing the trust of taxpayers,” said Mike Johnson.
