Thursday, May 2, 2024

Lisa's Photos. Congress Passes anti-Semitism Legislation. Will it be Enforced? More.

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 Pictures of Lisa's visit.


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These 70 House Democrats and 21 Republicans voted against a bill to crack down on anti-Semitism on college campuses

Rep. Jerry Nadler, the most senior Jewish House Democrat, spoke out against the bill ahead of its passage.
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The House passed a bill to crack down on antisemitism on college campuses.
70 House Democrats voted against it, including the longest-serving Jewish House Democrat.
That's because the bill defines some criticisms of Israel as being anti-Semitic.
The House of Representatives passed a bill on Wednesday designed to crack down on anti-Semitism on college campuses.

The bill sailed through by a 320-91 bipartisan vote, with 70 House Democrats and 21 House Republicans voting against it.

Lawmakers who voted against the bill aren't necessarily supportive of anti-Semitism, or opposed to efforts to curb it. Rather, they had issues with the definition of anti-Semitism that the bill would mandate.

The Anti-Semitism Awareness Act, led by Republican Rep. Mike Lawler of New York and cosponsored by 61 other lawmakers across both parties, would require the Department of Education to use definitions of anti-Semitism proposed by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) when enforcing anti-discrimination laws.

That IHRA definition of antis-Semitism — alongside obvious instances of anti-Semitism — encompasses some criticisms commonly made against the State of Israel, including:

Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor.

Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.
That's led to concerns on the part of more progressive lawmakers that free speech norms could be violated, and that anti-Zionism or opposition to Israel could be conflated with anti-Semitism.

On Wednesday, Rep. Jerry Nadler — the longest-serving Jewish House Democrat — spoke out against the bill on the House floor, arguing that the IHRA's definitions of anti-Semitism "may include protected speech in some contexts, particularly with respect to criticism of the State of Israel."

"Speech that is critical of Israel alone does not constitute unlawful discrimination," said Nadler, arguing that the Department of Education already has the ability to investigate discrimination under current law.

The vote took place on Wednesday as college campuses across the country have been swept by pro-Palestinian protests .

"Much of this activity, whether you agree with the sentiments expressed at these protests or not, constitutes legally protected speech," said Nadler. "Some participants shamefully have exhibited anti-Semitic conduct, and the Department of Education will rightfully investigate them."

In December, Nadler also led 92 House Democrats in voting "present" on a GOP-sponsored resolution that equated anti-Zionism with antisemitism . 13 House Democrats voted against the resolution outright.

In an effort to avoid this split, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries asked House Speaker Mike Johnson to take up a separate bill — the Counter Antisemitism Act — which would include establishing a National Coordinator to oversee an Interagency Task Force to Counter Antisemitism in the White House.

Republicans had their own issues with the bill. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia said that she would vote against the bill because it "could convict Christians of antisemitism" for believing that Jewish people played a role in the killing of Jesus Christ — a notion that the Catholic Church has refuted since the 1960s.

It's unclear when — or if — the bill will be taken up in the Senate, where the bill has 30 cosponsors, roughly half of whom are Democrats.

Here are the 91 lawmakers who voted against the bill, with Democrats listed in italics:

The 70 Democrats and 21 Republicans who voted against the antisemitism bill in the House.

Clerk of the House of Representatives

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Who are these jurists?  Who pays their salaries and why does this court exist?  The UN is bad enough. 
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Already a Travesty, the ICC Eyes Charges Against Israel The court at The Hague considers bringing wholly specious charges against leaders of the Jewish state. 

By Eugene Kontorovich | 

Posted By RUTHFULLY YOURS

  

http://www.ruthfullyyours.com/2024/05/02/already-a-travesty-the-icc-eyes-charges-against-israel-the-court-at-the-hague-considers-bringing-wholly-specious-charges-against-leaders-of-the-jewish-state-by-eugene-kontorovich/

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Consul Update Edited.
Operational Updates

Entire Gaza Strip

Throughout the past day, IAF fighter jets struck a large amount of terrorist infrastructure, including operational tunnel shafts and military structures, to assist IDF ground troops. 

Additionally, an IAF aircraft struck armed terrorists that threatened the troops.
Central Gaza Strip

Yesterday (May 1), a number of launches toward IDF troops were identified in central Gaza. No injuries were reported. In response, IAF fighter jets and IDF artillery struck an operational tunnel shaft and a mortar launch post in the area from which the launches were identified.

In a separate area of central Gaza, IDF ground troops identified and quickly eliminated a terrorist cell adjacent to them using an IAF aircraft and artillery fire.

Additionally, IDF ground troops used a UAV to identify a terrorist entering a military structure in central Gaza which was then struck by an IAF fighter jet, eliminating the terrorist.
Northern Arena
Overnight, IAF fighter jets struck a number of Hezbollah terror infrastructures in the area of Chebaa. Additionally, a short while ago, IDF troops identified a terrorist operating in a Hezbollah military compound in the area of Markaba. A short while afterward, IAF fighter jets struck the compound from where the terrorist operated.
Updated Statistics

President Herzog Delivers Message of Support to Jewish Communities Around the World

As anti-Semitic and pro-terror demonstrations continue around the world, including on university campuses in the United States, President of Israel Isaac Herzog has delivered a message of support to Jewish communities around the world. The President dedicated his message "to our sisters and brothers around the world." He emphasized, "The people of Israel hear you. The people of Israel stand with you. Do not fear. Stand strong. Together we will overcome." To view the President's full message, click .HERE.

Humanitarian Aid Crossing Opens After Being Raided by Hamas on Oct. 7th

Yesterday (May 1), the IDF announced that the Erez Crossing has been opened for the entrance of humanitarian aid into the northern Gaza Strip for the first time since October 7th, 2023 when it was raided by Hamas terrorists.

In coordination with the Coordinator for Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) Agency, 30 trucks of humanitarian aid, including food and medical supplies, arrived from Jordan and entered Gaza.

The entry of humanitarian aid through the Erez Crossing was made possible through the work of IDF engineers.

To view footage of humanitarian aid trucks venturing into Gaza through the Erez Crossing, click HERE..

Former Hostage Describes the Sadism of Her Hamas Captors

On Oct. 7th, 2023, 18-year-old Noga Weiss was brutally kidnapped from her home in Kibbutz Be'eri by Hamas terrorists. She was held as a hostage in Gaza until she was eventually released as part of the framework of the IDF's operational pause.

Recently, Keshet 12 News interviewed Noga about her experience in Hamas captivity. During her testimony, she described the sadistic nature of her Hamas captors, one of whom told Noah that she "would stay and bring him children." To watch the full interview, click HERE..

Operation: Swords of Iron Humanitarian Update

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (center) touring the Kerem Shalom Crossing with Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (right) and COGAT officers.

406 aid trucks were inspected and transferred to the Gaza Strip yesterday. 196 trucks were distributed within Gaza, 121 of which contained food.

Airdrops: 173 pallets containing tens of thousands of packages of food aid were airdropped in coordination with partner countries over northern Gaza yesterday.

Aid to northern Gaza: 88 aid trucks were coordinated to northern Gaza (56 private sector, 2 WHO, and 30 through the new northern crossing).

4 tankers of cooking gas and 2 tankers of fuel designated for the operation of essential infrastructure in Gaza, entered Gaza.

28 trucks of flour were coordinated via the Ashdod port program.

Coordinations: Out of 40 general coordination requests, 35 were approved. 7 UN requests for coordinations were submitted with 2 being approved. 13 coordinations to northern Gaza were requested with 10 being approved. Since Jan. 1, 87% of all coordination requests have been approved.

26 bakeries are currently operational in Gaza, providing close to 5 million breads, rolls, and pita breads daily.

So far, 3,204 injured and sick individuals and 725 escorts have been evacuated from the strip.

The northern water pipeline from Israel is now fully operational, providing an average of 50 liters per person a day.

Today, between 10:00 and 14:00, the IDF will pause operations in the Tel Al-Saltan neighborhood in Rafah, to enable the movement of humanitarian aid.
UN Secretary-General Promotes Libelous Claim Targeting IDF Troops in Gaza
Earlier this week, during a press conference, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, promoted a libelous claim targeting IDF troops in Gaza. During the conference, the Secretary-General spoke of "mass graves" of Palestinians found near hospitals in the Gaza Strip. In his remarks, the Secretary-General insinuated that IDF troops who conducted anti-terror operations in the vicinity of the hospitals were responsible.

In response, Israel's Foreign Ministry issued the following statement:

"Choosing to inflame hatred and push fake news in a volatile and tense situation is irresponsible and dangerous.

The bodies you are referencing were buried by Palestinians. We searched for the bodies of Israeli hostages, examined the bodies and returned them to their place.

The modern day blood libel that you are spreading is a complete and total fabrication and is an insult to the families of Israeli hostages who are in immense pain as they wait for news about their loved ones."
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She should not go outside during lightening:

https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/160/908/460/playable/5f65849bd3fe929d.mp4
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Star Parker speaks out:
                                                        

SPECIAL VIDEO MESSAGE

Standing with Israel and Fighting Anti-Semitism

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Biden also finally spoke out after White House Staff panicked.  He was much quicker to speak out against White Supremacist's in Virginia.

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HEY, KIDS, IT'S COOL TO HATE JEWS

By Yonoson Rosenblum
 
Mishpacha Magazine

https://www.jewishmediaresources.com/2297/hey-kids-it-cool-to-hate-jews

A very partial solution at best. But one that might benefit many Jewish elementary and high school students

"IF there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein," declared Justice Robert Jackson in his oft-quoted opinion in Barnette vs. West Virginia State Board of Education (1943), which struck down the state's mandatory flag salute statute.

That message appears to be lost, as "social justice" programs, which are little more than ideological indoctrination centers worthy of Pol Pot, proliferate at both public and private universities. But at least students in those worthless degree programs choose to be there. Far more frightening are mandatory courses for all students, such as that in "structural racism" required for all first-year students at UCLA Medical School, a public university.

A recent guest lecturer, Lisa "Tiny" Gray-Garcia, whose primary qualifications are having been both homeless and incarcerated, spoke with her face covered by a keffiyeh. She instructed all the students to get on their knees and touch the floor — "mama earth." She also led the class in chants of "Free, Free Palestine."

As described by the Free Beacon, she decried modern medicine as "white science," inveighed against "Turtle Island" (the United States), before asking students to stand for another prayer.

Throughout, the director of the course, a UCLA pediatrician, observed without comment. But when one student refused to stand for the second prayer, a UCLA administrator demanded his name, and suggested that he might be subject to discipline for his refusal.

How does such a compulsory class not violate both Barnette and a long line of Supreme Court decisions dating back more than sixty years banning school prayer?

BUT EVEN WORSE than when medical students are subjected to such indoctrination on the public's dime is when it takes place at the high school level and even younger, down to pre-kindergarten.

Franklin Foer began his much-discussed long piece in the Atlantic, "The Golden Age of American Jews Is Ending" (April 2024), with a text from Stacey Zolt Hara's 16-year-old daughter to her mother: "I'm scared." Just eleven days after October 7 and before any Israeli invasion of Gaza, the daughter's classmates were staging a walkout to protest Israel, while chanting, "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free." Hara was likely chosen by Foer because she had deliberately chosen to move from Chicago to Berkeley to find a community more in tune with her progressive politics.

On the quickly formed WhatsApp group of concerned Jewish parents in Berkeley and neighboring school districts, they discussed how the walkout was a direct consequence of what their children were being taught in school. Activists in the Oakland Educational Association, the local teachers' union, for instance, sponsored a webinar entitled "From Gaza to Oakland: How Does the Issue Connect to Us," in which the primarily black and Hispanic students in the school district were taught that the Israeli military works closely with American police departments, "cycling back repression here." For students too young for the webinar, there were helpful children's books for teachers to hand out, like Handala's Return, which describes how a "group of bullies called Zionists wanted our land so they stole it by force and hurt many people."

Public school education provided license for students to express loathing of their Jewish classmates. Zolt's middle-school son was approached by a classmate playing what he called a "Nazi salute song" on his phone. Soon the middle school staged its own walkout. One Jewish parent filmed the event. "Are you Jewish?" one tween asks another, to which the latter replies, "No way. I ..... hate them," while another adds, "Kill Israel."

As Foer sums up the position of Jewish students, "At every step in their education, they had learned about a world divided between oppressors and oppressed," and now they suddenly found out that they were the bad guys. At a meeting of the East Bay Jewish Student Union, a boy wearing a kippah asks to speak to Foer privately, as he does not want to start crying in front of his peers when he describes the abuse to which he has been constantly subjected.

On the way to the school basketball courts, he is taunted, "There goes the Jew, taking everyone's land." The boy tells Foer that he did not bother to tell a school administrator because nothing would change. Foer is confident that he is right.

THE INCIDENTS DESCRIBED by Foer are not isolated. Though the situation varies from region to region, and even school district to school district, shaming of Jewish students and attacks on Israel are not confined to any single area of the country. Even in deep red states, the state educational apparatus is often captured by radicalized teacher college graduates. The anti-Israel propaganda is abetted by state and local educational bureaucracies, local school boards, national and local teachers' unions, and by anti-Israeli curricula sponsored by Qatar.

Francesca Block tells the story at The Free Press (the justly most popular Substack site, by virtue of both the quality and quantity of its offerings), in "How US Public Schools Teach Antisemitism."

In her opening anecdote, Block shares a poster hung by Siriana Abboud outside her pre-K classroom in mid-Manhattan, on which are displayed four noses, one of which is hooked in the manner of anti-Semitic cartoonists for centuries. In art, we can often tell ethnic identity from the bridge of your nose," she helpfully explained to her nursery school students.

Lest anyone suspect that Abboud's intent was innocent, and the overlap between the hook nose and Nazi cartoons accidental, on her Instagram account she describes her education mission as "centering Arab narratives the way my schooling never did." The site is replete with collective action guides on how to "speak with your child about Palestine" and to "decolonize your teaching."

On October 9, she wrote, "We stand with those tearing down border walls [and] we show solidarity with those still fighting to free their stolen lands." For her efforts, last December the New York City Department of Education's gave Abboud the Big Apple Award, the highest distinction for a city teacher, for being a "liberation-inspired educator [raising] societal expectations of the critical work of young children."

For years, Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, a lecturer in Hebrew at the University of California at Santa Cruz and co-founder of the AMCHA Initiative, has been sounding the alarums about California's Mandated Curriculum, which finally passed in 2021. The curriculum mandates classes on marginalized people and how they were oppressed by whites. Brandy Shufutinsky of the Jewish Institute for Liberal Values labels the curriculum "a Trojan horse to institutionalize anti-Semitism in California schools."

And the proof is in the pudding. The tenth-grade curriculum history curriculum approved by the Santa Ana Unified School District terms Israel an "extremist illegal Jewish settler population" and accuses it of "ethnic cleansing." A school district near San Francisco teaches about the "dispossession of Palestinian "lands/identity/culture through Zionist settler colonialism."

On December 6, 70 Oakland teachers conducted a teach-in using materials produced by National Students for Justice in Palestine, one of the primary instigators of campus violence against Jews since October 7.

A Middle East curriculum prepared by Brown University, which receives a good chunk of the $8 billion showered on American universities by the Islamist monarchy of Qatar, describes Israel variously as a "Zionist enterprise in Palestine," an "apartheid state," a "settler colony," and "military occupier." More than one million students, across the US, have learned about the Mideast from the Brown curriculum.

Since 2018, New York City schools have been subject to a curriculum called the Culturally Responsive Sustaining Educational Framework, designed to provide students with a "critical lens through which they challenge inequitable systems of access, power, and privilege." Though the curriculum says nothing about Jews or anti-Semitism, Shufutinsky of the Jewish Institute of Liberal Values explains how the universal lens of oppressed and oppressor leads inevitably to the conclusion that the "only reason Jews as a minority could be overrepresented in positions of prestige is because they have oppressed someone else. If you accept that people who achieved success only got it through ill gain, then of course it's going to fuel Jew-hatred."

Karen Feldman, a mid-school teacher in the New York City public school system for 25 years, with a specialty in Holocaust studies, describes the "poisoning of our educational system." "How do you really promote diversity, equity, and inclusion when you have the leaders of equity trained on propaganda that promotes anti-Semitism and ultimately they bring it into the classrooms?"

In one of her group workshops, one student asked another, in front of two Jewish classmates, "What should we do with these dirty Jews?" Reply: "I know, we should put them in the oven." Such Holocaust "humor" directed at Jewish students has become commonplace. A parent of a student at Riverdale Kingsbridge Academy shared with Block a torrent of memes directed at her son as his bar mitzvah approached. One showed a photo of an angry Hitler yemach shemo, with the caption, "When you see your gas bill."

A photo posted by a member of the badminton team at one of New York's best public high schools, Townsend Harris High School in Queens, showed the only Jewish student on the team with a Palestinian flag in place of his face. His mother had the good sense to remove him from the school.

In the New York City schools, that hatred has been directed at Jewish teachers as well as students, culminating in a November 20 "raid" on a Jewish teacher in a Queens high school who had posted her support for Israel. One student commented on social media that the teacher "is getting executed in the town square," while the teacher remained barricaded in an office "shaken to my core by the calls to violence against me." The only response from the chancellor of the New York City public school system was to say that the teacher was "never in direct danger" and that the claim of anti-Semitic violence in the hallways was "misinformation spread online." Later, he added that the ringleaders of the riot had been suspended.

On November 9, both teachers and parents helped organize 700 students in a mass walkout in Bryant Park in support of Palestine. One Brooklyn school board of elected parents even distributed a handy "Day of Action Toolkit" to students replete with slogans for the walkout like "We don't want no Zionists here!" One of the student demonstrators carried a sign reading, "Keep the world clean," with a picture of a blue Jewish star in a trash can.

A participating teacher explained to the local CBS news outlet, "We teach our students about social justice. If we can't act on what we are teaching... then what are we doing?" None of the teachers or students who participated in the walkout incurred any punishment.

Andrew Goldberg, a filmmaker, may have provided at least a partial model for other Jewish parents. His 11-year-old son was approached by a classmate who teased him, "Hey, I have a fun camp for you. It has great showers. Camp Auschwitz."

When he and his wife complained to the principal of their suburban Connecticut public school, he offered nothing more than a suggestion that their son "try a new table at lunch."

So much for the days in the half century after the Holocaust, when as much opprobrium attached to being called an anti-Semite as attaches to being labeled a racist today.

At least the Goldberg's knew what do. They enrolled their son in a private Jewish day school.

A very partial solution at best. But one that might benefit many Jewish elementary and high school students.
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Presidents. administrators and boards where campus  rioting was allowed to occur should be fired, government funding should be withdrawn so a clear message how they broke federal laws.  This will send a clear message law and order dictates still.
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And:

Now Let's See Congress Enforce The Legislation or Will It Be Subject To Threats About Moving Our Embassy To Jerusalem Until Trump Actually Took The Poison And Proved It Was Benign.
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House passes bipartisan Anti-Semitism Awareness Act by wide margin

The bill, which codifies the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of Jew-hatred for Title VI purposes, passed 320-91 and is now Senate bound.

By Andrew Bernard

The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Antisemitism Awareness Act by a margin of 320-91 on Wednesday.

The bill, H.R.6090, would require the Department of Education to use the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of antisemitism when considering whether Jews had been discriminated against under Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

The legislation also discourages the use of other definitions, which may impair “enforcement efforts by adding multiple standards and may fail to identify many of the modern manifestations of antis-Semitism.”

Critics cited concerns that the measure would stifle free speech. Of the 91 who voted “nay,” 70 were Democrats and 21 were Republicans.

The U.S. Department of Education has used the IHRA definition of antisemitism in civil rights cases since 2018. The definition was given the force of law for executive agencies after former president Donald Trump issued an executive order applying the IHRA definition to Title VI cases in 2019.

Two of the House Republicans who voted against the measure on Wednesday said that they were opposed to it because the IHRA definition states that “claims of Jews killing Jesus” are “classic antisemitism.”

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said that she would vote against the bill because of the role of “the Jews” in the crucifixion.

“Antis-Semitism is wrong, but I will not be voting for the Antisemitism Awareness Act of 2023 (H.R. 6090) today that could convict Christians of antisemitism for believing the Gospel that says Jesus was handed over to Herod to be crucified by the Jews,” Greene wrote. “Read the bill text and contemporary examples of anti-Semitism like no. 9.”

The bill, which was sponsored by Reps. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.), Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.), Max Miller (R-Ohio) and Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.), includes both the IHRA definition and its “contemporary examples.”

The ninth example that Greene highlighted describes one potential case of Jew-hatred as, “Using the symbols and images associated with classic antisemitism (e.g., claims of Jews killing Jesus or blood libel) to characterize Israel or Israelis.”

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) similarly condemned the bill, claiming that the IHRA definition attacked the New Testament.

“This legislation is written without regard for the Constitution, common sense or even the common understanding of the meaning of words,” Gaetz wrote. “The Gospel itself would meet the definition of antisemitism under the terms of this bill!”

“The Bible is clear,” Gaetz added. “There is no myth or controversy on this.”

The Jewish Community Relations Council of Atlanta was quick to condemn Greene’s remarks on Wednesday.

“One area that is not controversial in the IHRA definition: Blaming Jews for the death of Jesus is anti-Semitic,” the Atlanta JCRC wrote. “It has been the most consistent, most used excuse for Jew-hatred for nearly 2,000 years.”

‘Monumental vote will remove all doubt’

Kenneth L. Marcus, founder and chair of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, praised the House’s passage of the bill, which he called “the game-changing response that we’ve been waiting for.”

“It finally establishes as a matter of law that Jewish students are protected under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Until now, this has been only a matter of informal guidance and an executive order,” Marcus stated. “IHRA is the international gold standard for defining antisemitism. It has been embraced by more than 1,000 entities, dozens of countries, and more than half of U.S. states.”

“The Biden administration has long promised to codify the IHRA definition via regulation, but they have repeatedly missed their self-imposed deadlines. From conversations with numerous administrators, I can say that many university leaders are unaware that the IHRA definition is already woven into the Department of Education’s current, active guidance, hampering how they address soaring anti-Semitism on their campuses,” added Marcus, a former U.S. assistant secretary of education for civil rights. “Today’s monumental vote will remove all doubt.”

“From a federal perspective, this legislation won’t change current practice so much as it will reinforce it. From a university perspective, however, there are few U.S. universities that are consistently applying the IHRA definition in appropriate cases,” he added. “This legislation should put a stop to that.”

The Jewish Federations of North America, AIPAC, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, the Orthodox Union, Combat Antisemitism Movement and Christians United for Israel applauded the bill’s passage in the House.

The House’s passage of the bill “is crucial to combating the chaos spreading on America’s college campuses. The debate surrounding anti-Zionism as masked anti-Semitism is conclusively over and must be acted upon. This bill is an important step towards that,” stated Nathan Diament, executive director of public policy at the OU. “We urge the Senate to pass the bill. The time for words is over; we now need to act.”

The @Conf_of_Pres salutes the passage of the Antis-Smitism Awareness Act, and calls upon the Senate to take up and pass the legislation.

Thank you @RepMikeLawler and @RepJoshG for leading this important bipartisan legislation. https://t.co/Hlj8HjVdF4

— William Daroff (@Daroff) May 1, 2024

With strong bipartisan support, the House just passed the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act, a key step in the effort to fight antisemitism and anti-Israel hatred on college campuses.

Thank you @RepMikeLawler and @RepJoshG for leading this important bipartisan legislation. https://t.co/AZ04wl5qgN

— AIPAC (@AIPAC) May 1, 2024
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Judicial Watch announced that the Justice Department has told the court that it will not disclose the audio recordings of special counsel interviews with President Joe Biden in order to protect Biden’s “privacy” interests.

The Biden Justice Department informed Judicial Watch and the court that it would assert Exemptions 6 and 7(C) under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to prevent the release of the two audio recordings of Biden’s interviews with Special Counsel Robert Hur. Exemption 6 applies to “personnel and medical files and similar files” when disclosure of such information “would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.” Exemption 7 (C) applies to “records or information compiled for law enforcement purposes,” the disclosure of which “could reasonably be expected to constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.”
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You Won’t Believe What RFK Jr. Said About 'Red State People' https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/05/01/you-wont-believe-what-rfk-jr-said-about-red-state-people-n4928679
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