U.S. Politics
Republicans are urging the Trump administration to back the move, as are groups such as evangelical Christians, a core base of support.
Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar will face four opponents in her district’s Aug. 11 Democratic primary.
Additionally, the spending package included $47.5 million in U.S.-Israel anti-tunnel technology cooperation, $4 million for new U.S.-Israel collaboration on coronavirus research and $6 million for joint U.S.-Israel cooperative programs in energy and water.
State Department envoy Ellie Cohanim also noted that the United States is urging nations to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of anti-Semitism.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Minn.) has been accused of peddling an anti-Israel and anti-Semitic agenda.
It was reported that doctors needed to “revise a bile duct stent.”
It calls out Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belarus and Ukraine; and Poland for not passing laws dealing with restitution of private property confiscated during the Holocaust, making it “the only European Union member state with significant Holocaust-era property issues not to have done so.”
“We are saddened by the vitriolic post,” tweeted Minnesota GOP chairperson Jennifer Carnahan.
The statewide face-mask requirement took effect on July 25.
The committee voted 117-34 to reject adding the word “occupation” and a condition of U.S. assistance to Israel on the Jewish state not going ahead with its plans to apply sovereignty to parts of the West Bank, also known as Judea and Samaria.
“This is the oldest, most obvious, least original anti-Semitic trope in history. Senator, literally no one believes your excuses,” tweeted Democrat Jon Ossoff of Sen. David Perdue.
It will also provide funding for joint projects between the United States and Israel related to fighting COVID-19.
