Susannah Levin, who has been working with the ice cream giant for 21 years, severs ties with the company "effective immediately," asserting that "anti-Zionism is the new antisemitism." Ben & Jerry's move "is part of this despicable trend and I will have no part of it."
"Given Israel's increased concern over the Delta variant, we decided it was not possible to offer Members of Congress a comprehensive program in the midst of the current challenges," AIPAC Spokesperson Marshall Wittmann says.
"Our support for Israel has no bounds, has no jurisdiction. We go where the fight is. If it's in politics, we're there; if it's on campus, our students are there. If it's on social media, our employees are there," said Sandra Hagee Parker.
The US "firmly rejects" the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement, which "unfairly singles out Israel" and will continue to be "a strong partner in fighting efforts around the world that potentially seek to delegitimize Israel," official says.
The American Jewish Committee panned the resolution, saying it "demonizes Israel, fails to offer a credible path to Israeli-Palestinian peace and undermines advances in Christian-Jewish relations."
For the first time, a US-UNRWA relief framework agreement contains a paragraph condemning antisemitism, although agency's ability to follow through remains a big question.
Footage posted on social media shows two masked suspects approach the man in broad daylight, brutally beating him and stealing his belongings.
In his resignation letter, West accuses the university of "intellectual and spiritual bankruptcy of deep depths."
A sizable minority of US Jews believe the worst accusations hurled at Israel, according to a survey commissioned by the Jewish Electorate Institute.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics says prosecutors investigated 1,864 suspects for possible hate crimes from Oct. 1, 2004 through Sept. 30, 2019, and referred only 17% of those suspects for prosecution.
