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“This is an issue that could have a serious impact on almost every charitable institution in the Jewish community—our shuls, our schools and every kind of institution that we have—and cost them thousands of dollars a year,” Nathan Diament, executive director of the Orthodox Union Advocacy Center, told “Jewish Insider.”
“Victims deserve compensation from the Palestinian Authority more than their murderers,” New York-based hedge-fund manager Sander Gerber, who was instrumental in the passage of the Taylor Force Act.
“Hopefully, I can be a conservative voice on the [Foreign Affairs] committee for the relations between the U.S. and Israel.”
“I’ll do everything I can as a member of Congress to speak out against anti-Semitic activities in the U.S. and throughout the world.”
The longtime supporter of Israel, who once worked with Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek, is “absolutely opposed to a boycott of any kind both in terms of disinvestment, as well as in the attacks on Israeli academics by the British Union.”
“Anti-Semitism is horrific, like any form of racism. It should be called out. We should rail against it as much as we possibly can.”
The first LGBTQ person elected from Minnesota says she will be an “active part of promoting a strong, safe and secure Israel” in Congress.
“For me, it’s a natural fit—to support Israel in just about everything. I believe that they’re so important in that region.”
Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from New York have exhibited anti-Israel sentiment and actions that will influence some, be it their constituents or their colleagues in Congress.
EMET said “the barbaric terrorist organization Hamas sees all human life as completely disposable. Hamas regularly uses innocent civilians, including women and children, as ‘human shields’ as a PR tactic against the State of Israel. This abominable tactic must be put to an end.”
“We support the measures taken by the government of Israel to protect and defend civilian lives, and hope that its actions will bring about a swift end to these indiscriminate attacks,” said Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations chairman Arthur Stark and executive vice chairman/CEO Malcolm Hoenlein.
Bill seeks to make any future funding to UNRWA contingent on reforming its definition of refugees.
