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Julie Menin, speaker of the New York City Council, stated that “ensuring students can enter and exit their schools without fear of harassment or intimidation should not be controversial.”
A museum spokesperson told JNS that cleanup is still underway.
The groups requested information on the university’s investments and contracts with Israel-connected companies, such as Dell and Raytheon.
“She felt so little shame about what she was saying,” Bethany Mandel, a Jewish journalist and mother of six, told JNS. “She was so certain of her moral stance, and that was extremely troubling.”
Steven Phillips, founder and executive director of JewishERGs, told JNS that a number of Jewish employees at Microsoft “avoided going to the campus” in the wake of anti-Israel protests at the computer software giant.
“If an application is submitted, it will be flagged for ‘appropriate processing,’” the senior U.S. official told JNS.
“Antisemitism is a threat that endangers communities across the country and undermines our national security,” Rep. Eugene Vindman, the bill’s co-sponsor, told JNS.
“It appears Israel is publicly admitting to targeting journalists, who have shown the scale of suffering in Gaza,” the members of Congress wrote.
“We will continue to pursue ISIS terrorists with unwavering determination, throughout the region,” stated the commander of U.S. Central Command.
Trump considered move by Australia and others to recognize a Palestinian state “irrelevant,” Netanyahu tells “Sky News Australia.”
Rep. Tim Walberg (R-Mich.) wrote: “The plans set forth in NEA’s handbook raise serious concerns that antisemitism has infected the nation’s largest teachers’ union.”
“Even in this most heinous circumstance, we cannot endorse the further taking of human life,” the director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism wrote to the U.S. Justice Department.
“It is unacceptable that any of these groups received taxpayer funding in the first place,” Rep. August Pfluger told JNS.
