Washington D.C.
The group, organized by the Jewish Federations of North America, also spoke to congressional representatives about security for faith-based nonprofits.
“We’re going to keep coming here until every hostage is home,” said Ron Halber, head of the JCRC of greater Washington, at the Qatari embassy.
A police report doesn’t indicate a potential hate crime, but Menachem Shemtov told The Washington Post, “I don’t know what other energy he could be referring to.”
“I know that the Qataris have been involved in negotiations,” Rep. Glenn Ivey (D-Md.) said. “But we really need to make sure they understand the urgency of the moment.”
“Instead of taking prompt and effective steps to rectify this hostile environment as the law requires it to do, AU has ignored the discrimination and harassment,” per the complaint.
From Hamas and Al-Qaeda flags to references to the Rothschilds and Nazis, ralliers went well beyond just “from the river to the sea.”
“Our long-standing policy against protests in our museum preserves this space for the solemn memory of victims, the reflections of survivors and its educational mission,” the museum said.
The political activist and former Women’s March leader Linda Sarsour reportedly led the protesters.
Then attacker sprayed “an unknown substance” at two Jews leaving the Kesher Israel shul and yelled an antisemitic phrase, per police.
“We demand that these hearings be canceled and that the students who were taking down the fliers be held accountable,” Ilan Sinelnikov, SSI’s founder and president, told JNS.
Some 2,500 students, faculty and staff attended the Nov. 14 rally in Washington, D.C.
Some of the reported nearly 300,000 attendees told JNS that they were motivated to come to Washington by Jewish unity and to send a message to the federal government.
