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“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.
“We do not accept that the ICC has jurisdiction in this instance, given that Israel is not a party to the Statute of Rome and Palestine is not a sovereign state,” wrote British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Students for Justice in Palestine co-sponsored a resolution supporting BDS activity, slated to be presented to the Undergraduate Student Government Senate on Yom Hazikaron, Israel’s Memorial Day.
Participants will explore the “potentials and limitations of a state-sponsored definition of anti-Semitism.”
This is an awful look for anyone who cares about Holocaust memory or for anyone with their own personal memory of Nazi concentration-camp uniforms that prisoners were forced to wear,” said StandWithUs.
He pleaded guilty to 11 felonies in 2009, saying he was “deeply sorry and ashamed,” and was sentenced to 150 years in federal prison.
In letters to Zoom and UC Merced Chancellor Juan Sánchez Muñoz, the organization notes that the event featuring Leila Khaled could violate federal law by providing material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization.
Days later, cable-TV news show host Mehdi Hasan published a tweet noting “conflicting accounts” surrounding the incident.
Benjamin Michael Garcia, 30, is facing criminal mischief vandalism charges and could face hate-crime charges as well.
Shimon Koffler Fogel, president and CEO of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, said the adoption of the resolution “highlights a toxic obsession with Israel to the serious detriment of the party.”
The reports, which sent shockwaves of anger and embarrassment throughout Duxbury, a small Massachusetts community of 16,000, have drawn national press and is the latest anti-Semitic instance involving paid municipal leaders.
Some 97 percent of an estimated 800,000 policies held in 1938 were never honored “due to federal court rulings and a failure by insurance companies to adequately publish names of recipients and pay claims.”
