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Sam Markstein, of the Republican Jewish Coalition, told JNS that Mamdani’s first veto as mayor “serves to accommodate vile antisemitic protests comes as no surprise.”
The U.S. secretary of state noted that as a result, Hamas concluded, “let’s not do a ceasefire because we can be rewarded. We can claim it as a victory.”
“We have a crisis right now, and we need to pull every lever on the state level and the federal level,” Shira Goodman, vice president of advocacy for the ADL, told JNS.
Rep. Brad Schneider called the decision “tactically questionable and strategically self-defeating.”
The “unique” plan is “a confident first step towards addressing what is a reemerging and longstanding prejudice,” Jason Miyares’s office told JNS.
A spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security told JNS that the suit is “baseless” and “political.”
“The credibility of Lebanon’s government rests on its ability to match a principle with practice,” the U.S. State Department said.
The family’s escape was a “true miracle,” the Chabad stated. “But they lost everything: their home, their belongings and the heart of their community.”
Daniel Mariaschin, CEO of B’nai B’rith International, told JNS that the university system president’s “bureaucratic statement is insufficient.”
“If we are asked to support, we of course stand ready at the president’s direction,” the U.S. Defense Department press secretary said.
The U.S. embassy and consulate in the United Arab Emirates stated that the warning also extends to “places of worship.”
Rory Lancman, of the Brandeis Center, told JNS that the decision is “significant” since it draws “some clear lines in the sand.”
“Axios” reported that “the only decision in the meeting was for both sides to de-escalate public attacks in the media against each other.”
