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As many as 1,200 summit attendees will lobby Congress to pass anti-BDS and Iran sanctions legislation.
The presidential candidate will address the country’s largest Christian Zionist organization.
The Christians United for Israel founder told JNS that his first Western Wall visit in 1978 was a “turning point,” setting him on a path to uniting Jews and Christians.
“The Jewish state remains a miracle of God that continues to bless and change the world,” said Pastor John Hagee. “Seventy-five years since Israel’s rebirth as a modern nation, Israel lives.”
“With this statement, the State Department has effectively given Palestinian groups a green light to attack Israel,” Jonathan Schanzer, of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told JNS.
CUFI, Passages and the Philos Project slam the rapper formerly known as Kanye West and his attempts to use Christianity to justify Jew-hatred.
“Jordan has dropped from the warmest peace with Israel some five years ago to the coldest,” said Jonathan Schanzer, senior vice president of research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
“We tell Israel’s story 365 days a year,” says co-executive director Shari Dollinger.
“I was a kid in the ’70s. I remember double-digit inflation, gas lines around the block. Our hostages languishing in Iran for 444 days while a weak and feckless president wrung his hands, unable to react,” said Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.
Received warmly as a headliner at the Christians United for Israel Summit, she tells JNS that the United States must have Israel’s back if a strike on Iran is deemed necessary.
Marc Stern, chief legal officer for the American Jewish Committee, said “this was the first appellate test of laws that combat the BDS movement, whose primary aim is to eliminate the State of Israel. As the court noted, Arkansas has broad power to regulate economic activity, and taking a position on a boycott does not inhibit free speech.”
He also discussed young evangelicals, the battle against anti-Semitism, the right for Israeli sovereignty and the arrival of Ukrainian refugees while he was in the country to receive multiple awards for his longtime work on behalf of Israel and Diaspora Jews.
