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“You guys want to criminalize us with metal detectors. We’ll see you at your house. We’ll murder you,” Riddhi Patel, 28, told the City Council in Bakersfield, Calif.
In a column, Republican Sen. Rick Scott also said that Qatar is “coddling” Hamas leadership.
The group released a letter rebuking the Massachusetts senator.
The Association of Legal Aid Attorneys passed a resolution accusing the Jewish state of “ethnic cleansing and genocide.”
“The legislation would provide federal officials with an objective, contemporary definition of antisemitism,” said Rep. Anthony D’Esposito (R-N.Y.).
“The United States will continue to target Hamas’s destabilizing attempts to launch terrorist attacks, as well as to disrupt Hamas terrorists wherever they operate, including across cyberspace,” the State Department said.
“U.S. government personnel are authorized to transit between these three areas for personal travel,” per a new U.S. alert.
She has written that “criticism of Israel for their murderous policies and challenging U.S. electeds to consider their allegiances is not antisemitism.”
“Jewish Americans do not need to be ‘spoken to’ or threatened by Donald Trump,” a spokesman for the Biden campaign stated.
Other items provided to families in need include matzah, gefilte fish, tuna, peaches and pickles.
The Florida Republican addressed Agudath Israel of America’s leadership mission to Washington on Wednesday.
Food driver Wensley Volcy, 32, faces hate-crime charges.