According to the Christian Post, a coalition of 17 liberal Christian groups sent a letter to Congress, urging lawmakers to reject a bill that would make it official U.S. policy to oppose boycotts of Israel.
The Israel Anti-Boycott Act would amend the Export Administration Act of 1979 to prohibit support of international state-sponsored boycotts of Israel by U.S. citizens engaged in interstate or international commerce.
Jan Markell, founder and director of Olive Tree Ministries, says the BDS movement, active now for several years, is attempting to hurt Israel economically.
“It’s an effort,” she says, “to hurt her image around the world.”
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Millions of dollars promised by Barack Obama and John Kerry to the Palestinian Authority just before officially leaving office have been put on hold by the Trump State Department.
In the last hours of his presidency, President Obama defied Republican opposition and quietly released $221 million to the Palestinian Authority. Former Secretary of State John Kerry reportedly informed some lawmakers of the move shortly before he left the State Department for the last time Thursday.
But yesterday, according to FOX News and other news outlets, the State Department announced it had decided to review the last-minute decision and might make adjustments to ensure it comports with the priorities of the Trump administration. The Times of Israel reports that according to a senior Palestinian source, U.S. officials told PA Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah the funds weren’t expected to be handed over in the immediate future.
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Men and women will soon be able to pray side-by-side at Judaism’s holiest site for the first time following a historic decision by the Israeli cabinet.
The measures, passed on Sunday, will see a new plaza built where men and women can pray together at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City. Two other sections will remain segregated by gender.
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Trump is right on Israel. The Jewish State and those of us who love her can not wait for Jan. 20th, 2017 to come
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United Nations Ambush:
“We cannot continue to let Israel be treated with such total disdain and disrespect… Stay strong Israel, January 20th is fast approaching!”
Those words from President-Elect Trump following an anti-Israel UN resolution which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described as an “ambush.”
Pointing to more than the U.S. abstention on the UN vote, causing it to pass, Prime Minister Netanyahu said, “We have it on absolutely incontestable evidence the U.S. organized, advanced and brought this resolution to the Security Council,”
Netanyahu thanked Trump for his “clear support,” and stated, “Israel looks forward to working with President-elect Trump and with the American Congress…to mitigate the damage this resolution has done and ultimately repeal it,”