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Christopher Wray said that there was no indication that Hamas was capable of attacking the United States.
“You’re not going to scare me with a ‘Day of Hate.’ You’re not going to scare our community,” said Maury Litwack, founder of the Teach Coalition.
The nonprofit legal aid group, whose union accuses Israel of genocide, has reportedly received some $300 million from New York in the past decade.
“Any one of them is better than Joe Biden,” Norm Coleman, national chairman of the RJC and a former U.S. senator, told JNS of all the Republican presidential candidates.
The Republican told JNS that the Oct. 7 attacks were “a real policy problem and a policymaker problem, not necessarily a massive collection gap” in intelligence.
Gov. Doug Burgum says Biden’s failure to link Iran to Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre “is like mentioning the subsidiary” but not talking “about the parent company that’s providing all the funding.”
“The RJC was created for a moment like this—to ensure that America has Israel’s back to do whatever it takes to wipe Hamas off the face of the earth,” said Norm Coleman, board chair of the Republican Jewish Coalition.
The former U.S. president claimed that Hamas wouldn’t have attacked Israel if he were still in the White House.
The U.S. Treasury Department “remains committed to enabling the flow of legitimate humanitarian assistance” while “continuing to deny resources to malicious actors,” it stated.
The president’s message on the five-year anniversary of the attack on Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue came days after the White House press secretary answered a question about rising antisemitism by commenting on Islamophobia.
“You never get over it. You just learn how to deal with it,” Adam Hertzman, of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh, told JNS.
“We need more of that in the world,” Kraft said of the volunteer emergency medical service’s color- and religion-blind approach.
