U.S. Politics
The southeastern African country has had diplomatic relations with Israel since 1964.
Loomer won last month in a primary against five other GOP candidates. She is a long shot in the Nov. 3 election against incumbent Rep. Lois Frankel (D-Fla.) in Florida’s 21st Congressional District.
The planned move was delayed by the coronavirus pandemic, but will get underway with the expected arrival of an Israeli ambassador, says Honduran Foreign Minister Lisandro Rosales Banegas.
“During his 16 terms in Congress, Rep. [Richard] Neal has been a steadfast supporter of America’s important relationship with Israel,” said Pro-Israel America’s executive director Jeff Mendelsohn.
“The need for action is urgent with survivors aging, and having domestic health and welfare needs, so that’s the nature of the focus that I have,” stresses Cherrie Daniels, the U.S. State Department’s Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues.
The president also took issue with his rival, former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, and a congresswoman, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), as 1,500 guests at the White House cheered him on.
Madison Cawthorn, 25, is being praised by Republicans, including U.S. President Donald Trump, as a rising star in the party. But he has been accused by his Democratic opponent of promoting bigotry and hatred, as well as by women for aggressive behavior.
It features a Holocaust denier decrying that “Zionist supremacists have schemed to promote immigration and miscegenation” and “implies that Jews are at the heart of a project to destroy Europe as we know it.”
A spokesperson from Jesse Mermell’s campaign told JNS that her response to the BDS question “was an error due to misunderstanding a very opaquely worded question. It has since been corrected.”
“They fill our sidewalks with hate speech to harass our worshippers, and then claim it’s just a good public location,” said Rabbi Nadav Caine in a statement following the federal ruling.
Biden campaign senior advisor Symone Sanders told JNS: “We continue to reject the views that Linda Sarsour has expressed.”
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the action reinforces “our commitment to hold [Syrian President Bashar] Assad’s generals and militia commanders accountable for their violations and abuses.”
