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“We need to shame the Zionists and make it clear that they are not wanted here,” says Kuwaiti man who verbally attacked Israeli mother and children in Emirati airport.

By Adina Katz, World Israel News

An Israeli family was verbally harassed while waiting for a flight in Dubai’s airport by a Kuwaiti national who posted the video on social media platforms.

The man, identified as Walid Al-Matri, approached a family in the terminal while filming them on his cell phone. It’s unclear how he knew they were Israeli nationals.

“Free Palestine!’ Al-Matri is heard screaming at a mother and three children, who look to be under eight years old, as they sit quietly at the gate.

In broken English that is difficult to understand, Al-Matri rants that “this country is for Palestinian people, not for all.” It’s unclear if his statement is referring to Israel or the United Arab Emirates.

“God gave you… a chance …to be good, but you don’t take it,” he continues. “There is… not your country [sic].”

Al-Matri’s implication may have been that the State of Israel does not exist, but it is difficult to determine exactly what he meant due to his poor grammar and heavy accent.

Oddly, Al-Matri adds “thank you very much” before walking away and ending the video.

The children immediately appear startled by the presence of the strange man, who is shouting at them and filming them without their permission.

Professor Eddie Cohen, an Arab affairs expert, tweeted that it is against the law in the Emirates to film children without their parents’ permission, and urged the authorities to look into criminally charging Al-Matri.

Notably, the Israeli mother ignores the verbal onslaught, continuing to text on her phone and does not look at or engage with the man.

“I only wanted to harass them. I could not bear the presence of happy Israelis in the land of the Gulf states,” Al-Matri wrote on Twitter, after posting the video.

The clip immediately sparked backlash from Emiratis, including one who stressed that Al-Matri is not from the country.

“I hope this woman and her children know that not all Arabs are as extreme and wild as this insane Kuwaiti,” wrote an Emirati man.

Others called Al-Matri “dramatic and pathetic,” as well as an “impolite, empty, and petty man.”

Shortly after the video was posted, the Emirati Interior Ministry said it was investigating the incident.

In a later interview with an Arabic language media outlet, Al-Matri added that “we need to shame the Zionists and make it clear that they are not wanted here, even if these countries have normalized [relations with Israel.]”

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The four things Riyadh wants of the U.S. do not include progress on the Palestinian front.

By Batya Jerenberg, World Israel News

The Biden administration is seriously considering four policy changes Saudi Arabia is demanding of the U.S. in order to normalize relations with Israel, Israel Hayom reported Sunday.

The four issues, some of which were first revealed last month in an article in the Wall Street Journal, are: formalizing a defense alliance between Riyadh and Washington, helping the Saudis develop nuclear power for civilian purposes, increasing bilateral trade, and putting a stop to the heavy criticism the Gulf state has absorbed from the Biden administration since its government was accused by American officials of being behind the assassination of a fierce critic of the regime, Jamal Kashoggi, in Turkey in 2018.

An American official told the Hebrew daily that the process of assessing the demands is expected to take several months.

Israel’s chief concern may be the issue of helping Saudi Arabia obtain nuclear power, even if it is not for offensive purposes, considering that this is how Tehran’s nuclear program got started. As the leading Sunni Muslim country, Saudi Arabia has said that if its Shiite Iranian foe produces a nuclear bomb, it would go nuclear as well.

Jerusalem is also keeping in mind that Riyadh and Tehran reestablished diplomatic ties last month under Chinese mediation, a move whose consequences for Israel are considered negative.

The White House’s main worry may be the upgrade in its military ties, after President Biden had come into office saying that the countries’ relationship needs a reset due to Riyadh’s human-rights record, with the Kashoggi affair topping the list of Saudi offenses in this area.

This issue has yet to be smoothed out, and the Democrats’ progressive wing would undoubtedly be extremely critical of this kind of turn-around. Biden knows he will need their support when he runs for a second term in office next year.

Perhaps surprisingly, considering its constant public support of the Palestinian cause, progress in any kind of peace process in Israel was not among the demands, which were outlined in a letter Riyadh sent to Washington through Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who visited the Saudi capital two weeks ago and then came to Jerusalem before flying back to the U.S.

After meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Graham said that he had told Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, the country’s de fact ruler, that “the best time to upgrade our relationship is now, that President Biden is very interested in normalizing relationships with Saudi Arabia and in turn, Saudi Arabia recognizing the one and only Jewish state.”

The Republican party would work with its colleagues across the aisle to get a deal done, he added, but he believes that time is of the essence.

“I would say that that this opportunity is not unlimited and that if we do not do it in 2023 or early 2024 the window may close,” he said.

Almost as soon as Netanyahu regained his office late last year, he announced the expansion of the Abraham Accords to include Saudi Arabia as one of his most important foreign policy goals.

“If we make peace with Saudi Arabia,” he told CNN in February, it would “effectively bring the Arab-Israeli conflict to an end.”

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‘The legal reform will pass,’ said MK Simcha Rothman. ‘It is necessary for the survival of the coalition.’

By World Israel News Staff

MK Simcha Rothman (Religious Zionism) said that judicial reform legislation must be passed during the Knesset’s summer session, which began today, and that should the overhaul fail to come to fruition, the right-wing coalition led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will likely collapse.

“The reform is still as necessary as it was on the first day” it was introduced to the Knesset, Rothman said in an interview with Ynet. “It is urgent… and I think the public that attended the protest on Thursday wants a deadline… it is impossible to leave the State of Israel in this limbo.”

Rothman, a legal scholar and chief proponent of the reform who drafted much of the legislation alongside Justice Minister Yariv Levin (Likud), said that the public was “frustrated” with the lack of progress regarding the overhaul.

Acknowledging recent surveys that have shown the right-wing parties plunge in popularity, Rothman attributed the poor polling to the coalition’s choice to pause the overhaul and negotiate with the opposition parties.

“Stopping the legislation destroyed value for the right-wing government, but as soon as we get back on track, the [support from the public] will go up,” he said.

Some critics have speculated that Netanyahu is willing to abandon the overhaul legislation or agree to a softer version of the reform that would not be effective in changing the judicial system.

But Rothman hinted Netanyahu’s coalition partners would not tolerate a watered-down reform or perpetual stalling.

“The legal reform will pass,” he added. “It is necessary for the survival of the coalition.”

Rothman noted that the issue of reform “did not start four months ago” and said he had been looking into the issue for over a decade.

“It’s not something new. In the last few months, [the initiative] went into overdrive, and today, God willing, there is an almost complete consensus that a fundamental reform within the judicial system is necessary. This reform will happen.”

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A Pakistani journalist called his nuclear country an antidote to ‘the cancer named Israel,’ in rush of anti-Israel articles and demonstrations during Ramadan.

By Batya Jerenberg, World Israel News

During a recent Al-Quds day event in Afghanistan’s third largest city, an Iranian government-sponsored event called for Israel’s “nuclear extinction,” according to a Tuesday report by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).

The NPO, which monitors what is said in the Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, Pashtu, Turkish and Russian media about Israel, translated a report on an exhibition organized in Herat by the Iranian consulate’s Cultural Center as part of month-long Al-Quds Day celebrations during Ramadan, which began on March 23.

Besides advocating Israel’s destruction, the program included “a discussion about the media terrorism of the occupier regimes of Israel, and America and its allies in different periods when it invaded the territory of Islamic countries,” Consul-General Majid Khaliqnia said, according to MEMRI’s translation of Afghan news portal Watan24.com.

Israel has been warning the world about Iran’s nuclear ambitions for years, and Western intelligence agencies have confirmed that the Islamic Republic could already build at least a “dirty bomb” within a matter of weeks if it chose to do so.

The MEMRI report noted that Iran has extra influence in the Herat province, which is on its border, but many rallies, seminars and exhibitions denouncing Israel and proclaiming support for “Palestine” were held over the entire month in the Afghani capital of Kabul and other provinces as well.

The extremist Taliban have been in power since last August in Afghanistan, and have imposed their strict variation of Sharia, Islamic law, over the country.

Meanwhile, in neighboring Pakistan, Mohammad Abdullah Hamid Gul, the son of the former chief of the country’s military Intelligence agency, wrote an article on April 11 decrying reports of indirect trade between Pakistan and Israel, although the two have no diplomatic relations.

“This century’s mega project of the Jews is ‘Greater Israel’ and Pakistan is the biggest obstacle in its path,” he wrote in Roznama Dunya, an Urdu-language daily, making point-blank reference to “Pakistan’s nuclear assets.”

“There is no doubt that [nuclear] Pakistan is the antidote to the cancer named Israel,” he added.

MEMRI reviewed what it called an “upsurge” of anti-Israel and antisemitic statements made in South Asia during this period, focusing on Afghanistan and Pakistan, but also India, which has a sizeable Muslim population. In India, a friendly country that has robust trade and security relations with the Jewish state, Shiite leaders in Mumbai and Lucknow led marches, for example, where speakers talked about the “obliteration” of Israel, said the report.

In general, Al-Quds Day, established by the Islamic Republic to call for the “liberation of Jerusalem,” is marked on the last Friday of the holy month when Muslims fast all day and is supposed to be a time of reconciliation and goodwill. In Iran and throughout much of the Muslim world, it was observed on April 21 by massive anti-Israel demonstrations where vows to “free Palestine” and speeches calling for “Death to Israel and America” were ubiquitous.

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UK Jewish activists and NGOs swiftly condemned the cartoon, along with prominent lawmakers.

By World Israel News Staff

The far-left UK newspaper The Guardian has apologized for publishing a political cartoon that depicted the recently ousted head of the BBC, British-Jewish executive Richard Sharp, using antisemitic tropes and imagery.

Sharp, who recently was forced to resign from his position as the Chairman of the BBC after it was revealed that he did not disclose financial support for former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, is shown in the cartoon with an exaggerated, large hooked nose typical of antisemitic caricatures.

A marionette resembling the current Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is shown in a box being held by Sharp, presumably implying that the lawmaker is under his control, along with a squid. Many antisemitic cartoons throughout the years have depicted Jews as having tentacles that control various aspects of culture and government.

UK Jewish activists and NGOs swiftly condemned the cartoon, along with prominent lawmakers.

“The depiction of Richard Sharp in today’s @guardian cartoon falls squarely into an antisemitic tradition of depicting Jews with outsized, grotesque features, often in conjunction with money and power. It’s appalling,” wrote David Rich, an expert on left-wing antisemitism, on Twitter.

“Disappointed to see these tropes in today’s Guardian,” former Health Minister Sajid Javid tweeted. “Disturbing theme – or at best, lessons not learned?”

The Guardian, which has a long history of biased reporting that critics have said demonizes Israel and glosses over Arab and Palestinian terror attacks, issued a laconic statement that only briefly mentioned the antisemitic nature of the cartoon.

“We understand the concerns that have been raised. This cartoon does not meet our editorial standards, and we have decided to remove it from our website,” the Guardian said, adding that they apologize “to Mr. Sharp, to the Jewish community and to anyone offended.”

Martin Rowson, who drew the cartoon, also issued an apology. He wrote that he actually attended school with Sharp, “though I doubt he remembers me.”

Rowson added that Sharp’s “Jewishness never crossed my mind as I drew him as it’s wholly irrelevant to the story or his actions, and it played no conscious role in how I twisted his features according to the standard cartooning playbook.”

But Rowson also admitted that he had “f–ed things up” and that “the cartoon was a failure.”

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Government gears up to meet May 29th deadline for passing state budget, while under pressure to pass new haredi draft bill, death penalty for terrorists bill, and the controversial judicial reform package.

By Pesach Benson, TPS

Despite national demonstrations for and against a controversial judicial overhaul, the government’s priority will switch to passing a state budget as the Israeli parliament’s summer session begins on Sunday.

Failure to pass a budget by May 29 will automatically dissolve the Knesset and send Israel to its sixth election in under four years.

However, according to coalition agreements between the Likud party and its partners, other controversial pieces of legislation must be passed ahead of the budget.

Among the Likud’s commitments is legislation exempting Orthodox men from Israel’s universal military service. Religious men are exempt from conscription if they pursue religious studies through the age of 26. The coalition agreement between Likud and the United Torah Judaism party commits the government to lower the age for men leaving their studies while remaining exempt from the draft.

Lowering the age would enable Orthodox men to more easily integrate into the workforce.

At the same time, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking to placate soldiers by boosting economic incentives for military service.

A separate Likud commitment to the Otzma Yehudit party is legislation allowing the death penalty to be applied to people convicted of terrorism. A death penalty bill introduced passed a preliminary vote in March with some opposition support.

The only individual ever executed by Israel after the War of Independence was Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi architect of the Holocaust. He was hanged in 1962 and his ashes scattered at sea after he was found guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity.

The budget and Likud’s legislative commitments are expected to put judicial reform on the Knesset backburner for the time-being, despite continuing national protests.

The governing coalition’s judicial reforms are deeply controversial. Legislation advancing through the Knesset would primarily alter the way judges are appointed and removed, give the Knesset the ability to override certain High Court rulings, restrict the ability of judges to apply standards of “reasonableness,” and change the way legal advisors are appointed to government ministries.

Supporters of the legal overhaul say they want to end years of judicial overreach while opponents describe the proposals as anti-democratic.

President Isaac Herzog has been trying to mediate a compromise between the government and opposition but so far has little to show for his efforts.

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Late Friday night, an alleged shooting in a San Jacinto County, Texas neighborhood resulted in the death of five victims, leaving the small community in shock and grief. Francisco Oropeza, a 39-year-old Mexican national, is the prime suspect in this heinous crime.

Witness details of the account report the heartbreaking moment that started the tragedy–when one victim asked Oropeza to stop firing his rifle outside his house, saying a baby was trying to sleep. Then, Oropeza was said to have walked up to the front door and opened fire.

The victims have been identified as Sonia Argentina Guzman, 25; Daniel Enrique Laso, 8; Diana Velazquez Alvarado, 21; Julisa Molina Rivera, 31; and Jose Jonathan Casarez, 18. Three other people were evaluated for injuries but eventually released.

The Belgrade Police Department launched an extensive search and deployed a team of dogs, officers on horses, and a drone to aid the uphill search. The investigation yielded a warrant with a $5 million bond issued on Oropeza, but authorities believe the prime suspect could be anywhere by now.

Adding to the tension of the investigation, the FBI Houston Field Office announced that Oropeza should be considered “armed and dangerous” and poses a “threat to the community.” Sheriff Greg Capers also expressed his fears that the search area could cover 20 square miles.

Heavily invested in their search for Oropeza, Texas Rangers have already seized a shotgun, two rifles, one .223 caliber rifle, and a pistol.

In a press conference, Capers asked his community to bear the burden together, and no adult or child should ever have to witness or live through such a tragedy.

The Orwellian doublespeak of the Israeli opposition is so blatant that it’s putting regular propaganda to shame and managed to sow self-doubt in coalition circles.

By Ruthie Blum, JNS

Those of us who were among the hundreds of thousands of participants in the right-wing rally in Jerusalem on Thursday evening weren’t surprised when the “resistance” bloc pulled a two-fer: downplaying the significance of and attendance at the event, on the one hand; and treating the happening as evidence that Israeli democracy is in danger of annihilation at the hands of fanatics, on the other.

Nor did we imagine that coverage from most media outlets would be accurate, let alone fair, since they’ve been acting all along like a branch of the protest movement. Instead, we drew encouragement from the throngs of fellow members of the national camp who turned up to bolster the government and urge it not to be bullied into backtracking on its mandate.

Both were necessary under the circumstances, with the Orwellian doublespeak of the opposition having become so blatant that it’s putting regular propaganda to shame. Indeed, the projection on the part of the protest instigators isn’t merely jaw-dropping (calling the government, rather than those trying to topple it, a “coup,” for instance); it’s actually been successful at sowing self-doubt in coalition circles.

Ahead of the opening of the Knesset’s summer session on Sunday, then, it was particularly crucial for lawmakers to be reminded of the populace that isn’t drinking the Kool-Aid—those still expecting and demanding judicial reform, with or without a broad consensus. It was also important to highlight that compromise on this or any other issue isn’t on the agenda of the forces spearheading the weekly demonstrations.

The points were made amid much good cheer and lots of applause for the speakers. Justice Minister Yariv Levin was given an especially warm welcome, in addition to cautionary chants of “Don’t be afraid!”

The message was that he shouldn’t cave on the judicial-reform process that the government had put on hold. This was done to allow for negotiations to bring about an agreement and prevent civil war.

Levin’s speech was aimed at reassuring his base that he hadn’t abandoned the mission, and assuaging the fears of opponents.

“We are told that the reform is intended to take over the Supreme Court, but the truth is the opposite,” he said. “We want a court for everyone: liberals, conservatives, right and left. Everyone.”

He went on: “They say that the reform is intended to impose the lifestyle of one public on another. The truth, of course, is the opposite. There is nothing in the reform that involves coercion or an infringement on the individual rights that are important to all of us. We are told that if the reform passes, there will be a dictatorship. There is no bigger lie than that.”

He also addressed Labor Party leader Merav Michaeli and the many feminists who’ve been wearing costumes from the Netflix series, “The Handmaid’s Tale,” based on the dystopian novel by Margaret Atwood.

“Join us so that we have a court that punishes rapists and doesn’t seek ways to make it easier for them; a court that cares for an elderly woman in south Tel Aviv and not for infiltrators who harm her; a court that protects the lives of IDF soldiers not terrorists.”

All well and good. But his words were far less noteworthy than the reaction they elicited from protest leader Moshe “Bogie” Ya’alon. The former defense minister, who used to be politically and ideologically aligned with Levin, is now a key promoter of the above-mentioned slurs.

“The fact that he who bears the title of ‘justice minister’ has not yet been fired and arrested, after the mendacious incitement speech that spilled the blood of Israeli judges, is a normalization of the insanity,” Ya’alon tweeted on Friday. “The fact that at the head of the Israeli government, which is trying to carry out a coup d’état, is under indictment for serious crimes and prohibited from dealing with the judiciary due to a clear conflict of interest, is a normalization of the insanity; the fact that the heads of the opposition are conducting negotiations under the auspices of the president of the country on the coup d’état proposal (the Levin-[Simcha] Rothman legislation) is a normalization of the insanity squared.”

So, in Ya’alon’s view, Levin deserves to be sacked and hauled off to jail. Talk about lunacy.

As if any of these statements weren’t sufficient to warrant a psychological examination for their author, he proceeded to command of the representatives engaged in talks at the President’s Residence that they “get out of there and let the criminal government, which has caused and is causing unprecedented damage to the country and its citizens, deal with [its own mess] so that its days will be numbered.”

His next cynical feat was to invoke and appropriate Ze’ev Jabotinsky—the father of Revisionist Zionism, precursor of the Likud Party heading the current government—by using the title of the latter’s famous 1923 essay.

“Join the ‘Iron Wall’ of the mighty protest, which will not allow a dictatorship! Democracy will win,” he wrote, before going on in his lengthy thread to describe the scenes from Thursday’s “extremist messianic incitement demonstration” as “shocking,” and accusing Levin of inciting “blood-curdling libels against Israeli judges, as if they support rapists and terrorists!”

Never mind that Ya’alon is fully cognizant of the specific cases in question, each of which actually did favor the perpetrators. On a roll, he told his “friends in the opposition” that they are the “messengers of the vast majority that supports democracy and independent judges. … The inciters won’t get their way. Israel will not become a messianic dictatorship with an inciting regime. The huge democratic majority—the democratic ‘iron wall’—will defeat this craziness! Democracy will win.”

What he and his ilk have been trying to obfuscate, however, is that democracy never lost; the left did, at the ballot box in November. The 600,000 Israelis who arrived in the capital on Thursday from around the country were simply reasserting this reality. Let the government not forget it.

Ruthie Blum is a Tel Aviv-based columnist and commentator. She writes and lectures on Israeli politics and culture, as well as on U.S.-Israel relations. The winner of the Louis Rappaport award for excellence in commentary, she is the author of the book “To Hell in a Handbasket: Carter, Obama, and the ‘Arab Spring.’ ”

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Protest leaders also claimed that the pro-reform demonstration on Thursday included “incitement,” although the event was completely peaceful, with no calls for violence.

By World Israel News Staff

The anti-government protest in Tel Aviv on Saturday night for the 17th week in a row reached a new level of brazenness with the video screening of the socialist Spanish prime minister pleading their case on video.

“Dear Israeli friends, we as Socialist International have always fought for freedom, equality, justice and democracy. Yet, as many of you already know, these are values that we cannot take for granted, and that we have to promote and defend on a daily basis.

“As such, now as always, the Socialist International stands in solidarity with the people of Israel. Dear friends, you will always find us in the fight for democracy,” Pedro Sanchez stated.

השבת ה-17 להפגנות | ראש ממשלת ספרד פדרו סנצ’ס בסרטון שהוקרן בפתח המחאה בתל אביב: “תמיד תמצאו אותנו במאבק על הדמוקרטיה”. עם תחילת ההפגנה, הודיעו המארגנים על החרפת המחאה ביום חמישי הקרוב | עדכונים שוטפים >> https://t.co/ZjS4Ujgvnp@hadasgrinberg @daniel_elazar @YoavYoavkrak pic.twitter.com/YsjX5Kf1Eo

— כאן חדשות (@kann_news) April 29, 2023

“For the opponents of the reform, there are no red lines, including the attempt to harm [Israel’s] international status. No foreign entity will decide for the public in Israel, and I am sure that Sanchez has no such intention,” Foreign Minister Eli Cohen tweeted.

“As someone who supports the reform, I have no doubt that it will strengthen democracy and balance the authorities,” he added.

למתנגדי הרפורמה, אין קווים אדומים, לרבות הניסיון לפגוע במעמד הבינלאומי. אף גורם זר לא יחליט בשביל הציבור בישראל ואני בטוח שלסנצ׳ס אין כוונה כזאת. בתור מי שתומך ברפורמה אין לי ספק שהיא תחזק את הדמוקרטיה ותאזן את הרשויות.

— אלי כהן | Eli Cohen (@elicoh1) April 29, 2023

Ahead of the protest, the organizers claimed that the pro-reform protest in Jerusalem Thursday evening, which brought an estimated 600,000 Israelis, included “serious incitement.”

“The serious incitement in [Thursday] night’s demonstration, which included shocking scenes of images of Supreme Court judges being trampled on, reminds us of the demonstrations of the Ayatollah regime in Iran. That’s where the Israeli government is dragging us. We have to stop it,” the statement read.

Yisrael Beyteinu party leader Avigdor Liberman said, “”On Thursday we saw representatives from the coalition continuing to incite and divide the people.”

Those claiming incitement at Thursday’s demonstration based the claim on Justice Minister Yariv Levin’s comments at the event.

“The time has come for a High Court that does not give rights to the families of terrorists and does not permit fake memorial services together with terror supporters…a court that protects IDF soldiers and not the terrorists’ neighbors,” Levin stated.

Smaller protests were held in other cities across the country.

National Unity party MK Gideon Sa’ar, who spoke in Herzliya, said Levin delivered a “speech of incitement and lies that defamed the system he heads.”

Considering the incitement against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other government officials by left-wing protesters, along with threats of violence, these claims of incitement seemed hypocritical.

In fact, the Jerusalem demonstration was completely non-violent, and unlike the Tel Aviv protests, no one was blocking traffic illegally. The main chants were: “The nation demands judicial reform”; “64 mandates,” referring to the November election victory; and “Don’t be afraid,” directed at the government.

The atmosphere was also somewhat festive, apparently due to the widespread feeling of satisfaction over finally getting their message out after months of mass protests against the elected government.

On Saturday night, police detained five demonstrators in Tel Aviv for blocking traffic.

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“I’m proudly wearing my Star of David,” said Councilwoman Inna Vernikov, who introduced the bill, urging fellow Jews to continue “displaying their symbols of Jewish identity.”

The New York City Council voted on Thursday to establish April 29 as the “End Jew Hatred Day.”

Although antisemitic attacks have been skyrocketing in recent years, four members abstained and two voted against the resolution.

“Your antisemitism is showing,” Jewish Councilwoman Inna Vernikov told the six members who refused to support the resolution.

At least two members of the NY City Council voted against the official recognition of #EndJewHatred day on April 29, in NYC, where incidents of antisemitism have been skyrocketing.

Luckily the resolution passed anyway but insane nonetheless @InnaVernikov pic.twitter.com/hbJ0zLhpp5

— Emily Schrader – אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر (@emilykschrader) April 28, 2023

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