U.S. Politics
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) says she is fine with Anthony Blinken as long as he doesn’t “suppress her First Amendment right” to criticize the Israeli prime minister’s “racist and inhumane policies.”
Michael Makovsky of the Jewish Institute for National Security of America said “given the foreign-policy rhetoric during the Democratic primary, [Tony] Blinken and [Jake] Sullivan are from the more moderate wing of the party, and that is reassuring. They’re thoughtful and experienced experts.”
While Middle East analysts say Biden is building a team of people in whom he trusts, can rely on and can work together as a team, a good deal of concern centers on whether U.S. foreign policy will look too much like it did during the Obama administration.
Home to as many as 450,000 Jews, in many ways it is similar to Michigan, Wisconsin and even Georgia when it comes to the politics that led to it being so contested this election season.
“We must stick to an uncompromising policy to ensure that Iran does not develop nuclear weapons,” says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Friedrich Karl Berger was ordered removed from the United States because of his time in 1945 as an armed guard of concentration-camp prisoners in the Neuengamme system in northern Germany.
Whether the festivities at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue will be indoors or outdoors remains to be seen.
Jonathan Schanzer at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies said that U.S. President Donald Trump “is unwittingly undermining American deterrence in the Middle East.”
“It is outrageous that someone who consorted with racists would be considered for a position on a commission devoted to preserving Holocaust memorials in Europe,” said ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt.
“Even more important is the recognition that the West Bank and Gaza are distinct political and administrative entities, not a single unified Palestinian territory with Israel squished in between,” said Eugene Kontorovich at George Mason University’s School of Law.
The U.S. Secretary of State has instructed the Office of the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism “to identify organizations that engage in, or otherwise support, the Global BDS Campaign.”
It has been one of several lawsuits against New York City and the state for coronavirus measures targeting Jewish neighborhoods, particularly in Brooklyn.
