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A coalition, including CodePink and the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, is pressuring FIFA, UEFA and national federations to ban the Jewish state from play.
“In the last 18 months, the world has witnessed a disturbing surge in antisemitic rhetoric, violence and harassment,” wrote the JCRC of the Milwaukee Jewish Federation.
The candidate will “approach antisemitism in line with the Biden administration’s National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism,” said a spokesperson for his campaign.
“Her murder, along with so many others, is a damning indictment of the Islamic Republic’s crimes against humanity,” the department stated.
It would mark the Israeli prime minister’s fourth in-person meeting with the American president since January.
“Standing here, I couldn’t be prouder to be a Jew and a Zionist; to me, they are the same,” said Esther Panitch, a Democratic member of the Georgia House of Representatives.
“Amidst a rising tide of antisemitism in our country, I’m praying for safety and prosperity for our Jewish community,” the New York City mayor told JNS.
“We will continue to disrupt these key financial streams that fund malign activities in the Middle East and beyond,” said John Hurley at the U.S. Treasury Department.
“A lot of faculty are scared,” Jeffrey Blutinger, Jewish studies chair at California State University, Long Beach, told JNS.
The legislation will allow families of fallen Jewish American servicemembers “to know that their loved one’s military service, life and religious heritage are properly honored,” said Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
The stones of the ancient site “100% validate that the Jewish people not only belong here now, but they have belonged here for 4,000 years, since the time God said to Abraham: this is yours,” said U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee.
Efforts to isolate the Jewish state are “orchestrated by the same forces that supported Iran,” Netanyahu told 250 U.S. state legislators.
