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“Anti-Semitism has no place in Texas, and we have a duty to combat it whenever and however it arises,” said Gov. Greg Abbott.
The Canadian Jewish group Federation CJA and its advocacy agency, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, applauded the decision.
“Amazon employs Palestinians in Tel Aviv and Haifa offices and around the world,” said the letter. “Ignoring the suffering faced by Palestinians and their families at home erases our Palestinian co-workers.”
Dr. Giovanni Quer, who conducted the study, says “we are facing a mixed trend.”
This year marked the first time that Switzerland was represented at the international meeting.
In a now-deleted tweet, the Democratic Majority for Israel wrote that Nancy Kaufman, the former head of the National Council for Jewish Women, has too often “enabled, rather than battled, anti-Semitism.”
The university “is not immune to the disease of anti-Semitism,” noted the resolution, which cited a study of incidents on campus.
“Too often in Democrat and leftist circles, we witness a singular focus on white supremacy to the exclusion of radical leftist anti-Zionism and radical Islamist Jew-hatred,” said Ellie Cohanim, deputy special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism during the Trump administration.
It asks U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to consider the Nexus document and Jerusalem Declaration on anti-Semitism, in addition to the official IHRA one.
Congress passed a bill late last year that elevated the position to the rank of a presidentially appointed, Senate-confirmed ambassador who reports directly to the secretary of state.
“The purpose is not simply to mandate a look back in history. It is about our forward-facing goal of improving our future as a society by reflecting upon tragedies and injustices of the past from which key lessons must be learned,” said Arizona State Sen. Paul Boyer.
Participants will explore the “potentials and limitations of a state-sponsored definition of anti-Semitism.”
