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“The order’s ultimate aim is to eliminate the designated chapters’ capabilities and operations, deprive them of resources and end any threat such chapters pose to U.S. nationals and the national security of the United States,” the White House stated.
There have been “disturbing reports of Jewish students being harassed and subjected to open antisemitism in their classrooms and hallways” in the districts, the committee said.
“Not only do my own parents live under the protection of the Iron Dome,” the Arkansas governor said. “So do 700,000 other Americans.”
The aid group said that it will “maintain readiness to reconstitute if new humanitarian needs are identified and will not dissolve as a registered NGO.”
“Blood libel was on full display today,” the American Jewish Committee stated. “Dressed up as ‘activism’ and ‘performance art.’”
The former U.S. special envoy on monitoring Jew-hatred told JNS that a Wikipedia page listing “genocide” in Gaza but not on Oct. 7 and not against Christians in Nigeria is part of why the site is an “untrustworthy source.”
The Republican Party must be united on which voices it considers legitimate, according to Ellie Cohanim, a task force co-chair.
“I was surprised and a little bit relieved and also heartened by how much political support the preliminary recommendations received immediately,” a Democratic state representative, who is Jewish, told JNS.
The U.S. president is reportedly considering designating the group as a foreign terrorist organization.
Engineering teams have begun surveying and clearing designated sites, though construction has not yet started.
Matan Misan demonstrates his physical skills less than two years after losing both of his legs in Gaza.
“It’s not just a display of the scrolls, which of course in and of themselves would be powerful,” but other “wow objects” leave viewers in awe, the museum’s director of exhibits told JNS.
