Antisemitism
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The choice of the 40-year-old Green Party member leaves analysts and the media unsure over effects on the domestic Jewish community, anti-Semitism and Israel policy, among other things.
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and Ernst & Young Global Limited will no longer audit the Union of Agricultural Work Committees or Defense for Children International Palestine.
During World War II, more than 550,000 American Jewish men and women served in the U.S. Armed Forces; 11,000 were killed and more than 40,000 were wounded.
Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean and director of global social action for the Simon Wiesenthal Center, said the administration’s response did not go far enough and will be included in the center’s annual list of the “Top 10” worst anti-Semitic incidents.
“This major donation will enable us to expand the important work we do to teach the lessons of the Holocaust and confront anti-Semitism and hatred,” said Rabbi Eli Mayerfeld.
“We now have a culture minister who is a close friend of the Iranians and who has bowed her head wearing a headscarf in front of the mullah regime, in addition to being a supporter of the boycotters of Israel,” said Sacha Stawski, head of the pro-Israel watchdog group Honestly Concerned.
A probe into the breach that allowed someone with multiple criminal convictions to work as a cleaner at Defense Minister Benny Gantz’s home ends with the reprimand of two senior Israel Security Agency officials.
“He really was a man of principle; he was a man who stood up for what was right; and above all, he put country above partisanship,” said Matt Brooks, executive director of the Republican Jewish Coalition.
Attorney generals from 12 U.S. states wrote to Unilever CEO Alan Jope expressing their concern over the company’s refusal to sell its products to Judea and Samaria, and parts of Jerusalem.
The Arabofolies festival organized by the Institut du Monde Arabe in France is being held through Dec. 12.
Richard Hesketh, 36, of Manchester posted 4,000 videos promoting anti-Jewish conspiracy theories and encouraging violence against Jews.
A United Nations office’s description of a recent terror victim as a “settler” raises difficult questions regarding the international body’s motives, says Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Gilad Erdan.
