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The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelming approved (420-9) legislation last September to provide $1 billion in funds, but the legislation has since stalled in the Senate.

The Biden administration has signaled that it is working to expand the circle with Muslim-majority countries like Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, the Maldives, Comoros, Kuwait and Qatar.

If enacted, the bill would create an office to monitor and combat Islamophobia in the State Department—similar to the one that exists for anti-Semitism.

They include four Democrats and two Republican U.S. congressional members eyeing re-election.

Thank God for the DSA, maybe there's hope for the GOP to take back both houses next November?

Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.), who recently visited Israel on a J Street-sponsored trip, is leading an effort expressing “immense concern” over plans to build 3,400 new apartments.

The cameras caught a tearful AOC as she watched the complete collapse of her plot.

Man plans, God laughs.

“We condemn the disgraceful comments made by [Omar] in a CNN interview in which she accused her Jewish Congressional colleagues, along with the Jewish people as a whole, of not being committed to the pursuit of justice,” Conference of Presidents chair Dianne Lob, CEO William Daroff and vice chair Malcolm Hoenlein said.

Opinion polls conducted as recently as 2011 showed strong public support for Israel.

“Let me be clear: The House Republican Conference condemns this language,” says House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.).

The US is returning full force to failed ideas.

"Now my goal with HR 4391 is ... to force policymakers to think about the 3.8 billion dollars in U.S. aid to Israel and how that helps ... the repression of the Palestinian people."

His defenders said it was a pun intended to recognize the record number of women serving in the new Congress.

We wish Speaker Pelosi much success in taming her progressive infestation.

The new spending bill contains not only nice gifts for America's most loyal friend in the Middle East, it also includes some coals for the hanging socks of America's enemies in the same region.

Sudan has made it clear that without legislation that would grant it immunity from legal action over its terrorist past, ties will not be upgraded.

Malliotakis has called for forming a “freedom squad” to counter fellow New Yorker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her axis in Congress, and to fight BDS.

Republican New York State Assembly Member Nicole Malliotakis got 57.9 percent of the vote; Rose, a Democrat, received 42.1 percent.

Several Jewish congressional members are expected to retain prominent leadership roles in the 117th Congress

“I am glad that so many Senate Democrats have now echoed that sentiment,” said Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas).

“This represents the toughest sanctions on Hezbollah ever proposed by Congress,” said Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.).

Halie Soifer of the Jewish Democratic Council of America, sought to dispel the notion that they were objecting to the substance, saying “the measure was manipulated using anti-Semitism for political purposes.”

The money, about $13.5 billion, was included for K-12 schools in Congress’s $2 trillion-aid package, the CARES Act, which was enacted last March to mitigate economic damage from the pandemic.

The State Department appropriations bill would include $5 million for refugees resettling in Israel.

“The world has changed, Congress needs to change, too,” Bowman said in a statement to the media shortly after he was declared the winner.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) has perpetuated anti-Semitic tropes and introduced a resolution in Congress that promotes boycotts of Israel.

The bill seeks “to restore humanitarian and development assistance to the Palestinians,” despite the Trump administration having defunded or slashed such funding to virtually zero.

One sour note: the AOC letter was also signed by Rep Nydia Velázquez (D-NY) who represents the Lower East Side of NY.

It also fires back against warnings that the move would undermine the U.S.-Israel relationship.