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The meeting, held in Sharm el-Sheikh in March, brought together top military officers from Israel, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, Egypt and Jordan, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The Israeli mission in Geneva responded with its own statement, saying the OHCHR “once again deplorably fails to mention the main obstacle to establishing the truth in this tragic incident: the Palestinian Authority’s refusal to conduct a joint investigation and hand over the bullet. This Palestinian attitude raises doubts.”
“It is incumbent upon all members of the Jewish community—and all Colorado citizens of good faith—to say NO to this apostle of hatred towards the Jewish state,” wrote 30 Colorado Jewish leaders in an open letter published in “Intermountain Jewish News.”
The central BDS movement tells the local group to take down the map or remove the moniker from the chapter’s name.
“If you had told me a year ago that would be the first place I would go, obviously, you’re dreaming,” said Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Anti-Semitism Deborah Lipstadt.
A June 23 letter was signed by 189 national and local organizations, including 80 Jewish federations, network communities and Jewish Community Relations Councils.
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.”
In his new role, Eli Rosenbaum will lead a War Crimes Accountability team comprised of DOJ employees who are experts in investigations involving human-rights abuses and war crimes.
“What began as one man’s opinion,” said Rabbi Marvin Hier, “would become state policy of Nazi Germany 22 years later, which led to the systematic murder of one-third of world Jewry.”
“It’s time that expressions of anti-Semitism, under the guise of criticism of the State Israel, be defined as such,” says Knesset speaker.
B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission chairman hails legislation banning the public display of the symbol as a “thunderous blow” to neo-Nazis.
The bipartisan effort against anti-Semitism was led by Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) and Don Bacon (R-Neb.), joined by 35 colleagues.
