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The state’s congressman said material for the class “directly attacks” the Antisemitism Awareness Act, “bipartisan legislation that I have led.”
The world’s largest such fund drew Washington’s ire when it divested from Caterpillar this summer for its business dealings with the Israeli military.
“I see my role as the conductor in an orchestra,” Cassen told JNS. “Each instrumental section has its own score, but what I can do is improve coordination.”
“The law was never meant to be a refuge for those who profit from theft,” stated Sen. Ted Cruz.
“This is just the latest in a long history of Iran’s global lethal targeting of diplomats, journalists, dissidents and anyone who disagrees with them,” a U.S. official said.
Eighty-three percent of respondents believe the mayor-elect is an antisemite.
“It would be very easy” to conclude from a floor speech by Sen. Chris Coons that “Jews in the first century only helped and supported their own,” the scholar Malka Simkovich told JNS.
Mark Goldfeder of the National Jewish Advocacy Center told JNS that he plans to rejoin the panel, which made “the right decision to separate.”
“A who’s who of Ohio business groups, economic development organizations and interfaith leaders” supported the bill, according to Ohio Jewish Communities.
Denise Katz-Prober, of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, told JNS that the school’s internal grievance process was weaponized against Jewish students.
The American people are “inadvertently subsidizing terror against themselves,” bill sponsor Chip Roy said.
Socialism and communism “are quickly coming to a town near you, unless you let your voice of common sense be heard,” Mike Johnson said.
