U.S. Politics
Eighty-seven percent of Israeli Jews support the resumption of fighting against Hamas in the same manner as before the ceasefire.
“I am disappointed that 106 of my colleagues failed to take this opportunity to condemn antisemitism forcefully,” said Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio), a co-sponsor.
“Your institution is clearly producing students who are sympathetic to a terrorist organization,” said Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.). “Don’t you think that’s a misuse of taxpayer dollars?”
Washington has repeatedly claimed that Israel isn’t doing enough to curb “settler” violence in Judea and Samaria.
Matthew Miller, the State Department spokesman, later clarified that he didn’t have evidence to support that claim.
Jerusalem has been “receptive to our messages here in terms of trying to minimize civilian casualties,” added spokesman John Kirby.
Facing a 23-count fraud indictment, Santos became just the sixth member of the House, and the first non-Confederate or convicted felon, expelled from Congress.
“Throughout our careers, we often disagreed. And often strongly,” the U.S. president said, hours after U.S. Secretary of State Blinken released a much heftier statement.
“He was a visionary, and a brilliant man,” the attorney and Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz told JNS of his longtime friend.
The United States credits the Palestinian Authority for supposed “calm” in Judea and Samaria.
All of the other 412 House members who voted supported the Jewish state.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) spoke for more than 40 minutes about Jew-hatred on the U.S. Senate floor.
