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“There are 57 countries that are Sharia-compliant,” Rep. Randy Fine wrote. “The United States will not be the 58th.”
“Saudi Arabia is the key to the puzzle for what I hope to have happen in the region and the world,” Sen. Lindsey Graham stated.
The Muslim organization compared Sharia to “canon law for Catholics and halachah for Orthodox Jews.”
“The alleged actions outlined in this indictment reflect a calculated betrayal of trust,” stated FBI Special Agent in Charge Sanjay Virmani.
“Antisemitism is always going to be around, but to be on a college campus is just the worst,” one student who testified told JNS.
“Virtually all of the countries there today, they didn’t just turn up. They brought something to the table,” the board executive and former British prime minister told JNS.
The decision “was made by the speaker’s team, not UCLA,” the school’s associate vice chancellor for campus and community safety told JNS.
“We may have to take it a step further, or we may not. Maybe we’re gonna make a deal,” the president said. “You’re gonna be finding out over the next probably 10 days.”
The incident shows how vital it is students are “allowed to be visibly, proudly Jewish without fear,” the executive director of Metro Chicago Hillel told JNS.
Growing opposition to Israel on the political right is “serious, but thank God, it’s not really an evangelical problem,” Rev. Johnnie Moore told JNS.
Elijah Wiesel, a sophomore who saw the graffiti, told JNS that, while the incident does not appear to have had much campus impact, it seems to reflect “broader Jew-hatred on campus.”
“Antisemitism is the oldest bigotry in the world, and it has not gone away,” said Mondaire Jones, a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
