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Mike Wagenheim

Mike Wagenheim

Mike Wagenheim is a Washington-based correspondent for JNS, primarily covering the U.S. State Department and Congress. He is the senior U.S. correspondent at the Israel-based i24NEWS TV network.

“These horrors must never be repeated,” the United Nations secretary-general stated.
“In many of the countries that have Holocaust envoys or antisemitism envoys, you have to empower them to be able to do something to be effective,” the U.S. special envoy on Jew-hatred told reporters. “You can’t neuter them.”
“Those who vetoed this resolution love to lecture all of us on their love for the U.N. Charter and this institution,” the U.S. envoy said.
“These allegations are so deeply disturbing that they almost defy imagination,” the assistant U.S. attorney general stated.
The new designations strike “directly at the critical arteries Iran relies on to sustain its economy and evade sanctions,” the U.S. Treasury Department stated.
Eligible returns and payments can be postponed until Sept. 30, 2027, the agency said.
“Decisions about faith and religion were made by secular careerists in cubicles and lawyers running around with red tape,” the U.S. defense secretary said.
JNS sought comment from Foggy Bottom after breaking the news about the event, which was initially planned for Sept. 30.
Jewish communities in Argentina, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States called the pending selection of the new U.N. secretary-general a “defining moment.”
The Food and Agriculture Organization official reportedly said that he “was told that I violated the paragraphs about standards of conduct of the civil service related to impartiality in leadership.”
Some foreign delegations “really understand how antisemitism is threatening their own countries,” Marina Rosenberg, of the ADL, told JNS.
The database “was established solely to persecute the Jewish state, with no equivalent anywhere else in the world,” Jerusalem’s mission to the world body in Geneva said.