U.S. Politics
It is essential to confirm nominees for the U.S. antisemitism special envoy and the envoy for religious freedom, 15 Jewish groups wrote.
“It’s a very comprehensive plan we are putting together on the next day,” said U.S. Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff.
“In my lifetime, it’s never been tougher to be a Jew in America,” Rep. Brad Sherman told JNS.
After a Democratic National Committee panel rejected the anti-Israel resolution, the DNC chair withdrew his own measure, which had passed and was more in line with the Democratic Party platform.
“We are alarmed by the continued rise of antisemitic incidents on America’s college campuses. No student should be forced to hide their identity out of fear,” read a bipartisan statement.
“Famine is now occurring in northern Gaza and expected to expand to southern Gaza,” per the Famine Early Warning Systems Network, which is part of the U.S. State Department.
The move follows U.S. President Donald Trump’s June 30 executive order, which removed longstanding sanctions on the Syrian government.
The state’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party stripped Omar Fateh of its support over voting irregularities at a chaotic nominating convention in July.
“If an application is submitted, it will be flagged for ‘appropriate processing,’” the senior U.S. official told JNS.
“Antisemitism is a threat that endangers communities across the country and undermines our national security,” Rep. Eugene Vindman, the bill’s co-sponsor, told JNS.
“It appears Israel is publicly admitting to targeting journalists, who have shown the scale of suffering in Gaza,” the members of Congress wrote.
“It is unacceptable that any of these groups received taxpayer funding in the first place,” Rep. August Pfluger told JNS.
