U.S. Politics
An executive at Morgan Stanley, he previously served as deputy secretary of state for management and resources from 2011 to 2013.
“If you talk to any legitimate historian, they’ll say there was a real genocide. If there was a real genocide, it should be recognized as such,” said ZOA national president Mort Klein.
The vote, scheduled on a Saturday, would prevent Shabbat-observing Jews, Seventh-day Adventists and other groups from participating.
“The administration will be questioned or criticized by some Democrats on the Hill, but it will move forward just as in 2015, without regard to their worries,” said Elliott Abrams, former U.S. Special Representative for Venezuela and Iran in the Trump administration
It asks U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to consider the Nexus document and Jerusalem Declaration on anti-Semitism, in addition to the official IHRA one.
The Maximum Pressure Act would require Senate approval for any new deal between the United States and Iran.
“As the United States meets pressing global challenges, we strongly believe that robust U.S. foreign assistance is vital to ensuring our national security interests abroad,” the letter stated.
Congress passed a bill late last year that elevated the position to the rank of a presidentially appointed, Senate-confirmed ambassador who reports directly to the secretary of state.
Quinn Mootz said in a series of Twitter posts, which have since been deleted, that “Jews are not POC [People of Color] for just being Jewish.”
“The core of the administration’s Iran strategy is a devil’s bargain that will funnel billions into Iran’s imperial project across the Middle East in exchange for a temporary reprieve from Iran’s relentless march towards nuclear-weapons capability,” said John Hannah, a senior fellow at the Jewish Institute for National Security of America.
“I’m ready to go all-in on this mission and bring New York back from the brink and return it to glory,” said the congressman from Long Island.
U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price dismissed the criticism, saying that it took oversight of UNRWA “extraordinarily seriously,” and that it would now have “a seat at the table.”
