Antisemitism
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The suspect, identified as Dion Marsh, 27, allegedly hit two people while driving a stolen vehicle, before getting out to stab the last victim, an Orthodox Jewish man. The suspect reportedly made anti-Semitic remarks upon his arrest.
Ben Ferencz, 103, said he has worked his whole life for “a more humane and peaceful world, where no one would be killed or persecuted because of his race or religion or his political beliefs.”
“When you see this exhibit, it tears at your heart,” said Samuel Asher, the museum’s executive director.
It will open with a dinner featuring a dialogue with three members of the U.S. House Bipartisan Task Force for Combating Anti-Semitism: Reps. Ted Deutch (D-Fla.), Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.) and Grace Meng (D-N.Y.).
The planned speech by Mohammed El-Kurd is being sponsored by Students for Justice in Palestine and the Palestinian Cultural Coalition, and funded by the Undergraduate Student Government-Tempe.
“We want to move from defense to offense. We want to be the organization that controls the narrative and controls the conversation,” said Ilan Sinelnikov, president and founder of Students Supporting Israel.
In 2011, she was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom—the highest civilian honor in the United States.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett condemned the killing of civilians in the town of Bucha.
A total of 70 Holocaust survivors participated in the last in-person march in 2019.
The Hispanic Jewish Foundation said it commissioned the piece, “El Abrazo” (“The Embrace”), for the José Sacal Foundation “as a gesture of the new relationship between the Hispanic and Jewish worlds.”
Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva Meirav Eilon Shahar said “Israel does not expect fair, objective or professional treatment from an activist who promotes outrageous libels.”
