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Carl Wilson, who won the election, pledged to vote to overturn the mayor’s veto of a bill calling for a “buffer zone” free of protest obstruction around educational institutions, but a spokesman has said he changed his view.
“Sadly, someone here listened to the chants of ‘intifada, intifada,’” said the Israeli consul general in New York.
While the gunman came from Chicago, alderman Debra Silverstein said “there is no known threat” to the Jewish community, though security will be increased “out of an abundance of caution.”
The “perpetrators and abettors” of genocide have “forfeited their humanity,” the document states.
“For these neo-Nazis, ‘Free Palestine’ is just today’s version of ‘Heil Hitler,’” Netanyahu said in a statement addressing Wednesday night’s shooting.
The murder “underscores the magnitude of antisemitism,” the senior counsel to the assistant U.S. attorney general for civil rights told JNS.
The Orthodox Union applauded the “historic” House passage of a school choice act within tax legislation, while the high court rejected religious charter schools.
The U.S. secretary of state said in testimony on Capitol Hill that American pressure led to Israel lifting the blockade on Gaza aid.
The Syrian government’s apparent progress ought to also “set expectations for what must come next,” a U.S. diplomat told the United Nations Security Council.
“Antisemitism, along with Islamophobia and other forms of ethno-religious hatred, have festered far too long in the United States,” Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) stated.
“This a blaring warning to all Americans, across the political spectrum, that the world’s oldest hatred continues to plague our society,” Matt Brooks, of the Republican Jewish Coalition, stated.
Before joining the embassy, Sarah Milgrim immersed herself in Israel’s Neve Shalom Tech2Peace program to study friendships between Israelis and Arabs.
The Israeli premier thanked U.S. President Donald Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi “for their clear stance against antisemitism.”
