U.S. Politics
Those sanctioned are accused of obtaining or attempting to obtain voter information from U.S. state election websites and sending threatening emails to intimidate voters.
“Have we really gotten to the point where one student government leader can de-platform Jewish students and delegitimize a well-known pro-Israel student group for the ‘crime’ of defending themselves on social media?” said Jacob Baime, CEO of Israel on Campus Coalition.
The meeting took place on the sidelines of the 2021 Federalist Society conference and included remarks by Richard Goldberg, who drafted one of the first anti-BDS laws in 2015.
Rep. David Kustoff (R-Tenn.) said the proposal to reopen it would be “inconsistent” with the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995.
The legislation seeks to address growing concerns over educational materials being used by the Palestinian Authority and UNRWA.
Proposed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), it would require the U.S. Comptroller General to submit a report to Congress assessing the economic, humanitarian, political and psychological impact that Israel’s restrictions on movement and access are having on Palestinians.
“It’s the result of a toxic environment where agitators spent years weaponizing debates about municipal policy with an outsized focus on Orthodox Jews, and the commentary loaded with one-sided reporting and flat-out lies,” said the Orthodox Jewish Public Affairs Council.
Rep. Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey appears to be the sole Democrat that has come out against the administration’s plan, which has generated strong Republican opposition.
The funding works like a matching grant, covering costs of equipment but not the labor to install it.
The decision by the Biden administration marks a shift from the Trump administration, which had uniformly voted against such anti-Israel votes at the United Nations.
U.S.-Israeli Task Force on Fintech Innovation and Cybersecurity will counter money-laundering, terror financing and “illicit finance threats.”
Projected to open by the third quarter of 2022, the facility can provide as many as 300 jobs.
