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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 536

Jewish Council for Public Affairs

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York, speaks with reporters as Republicans work to pass an interim spending bill that would avoid a partial government shutdown and keep federal agencies funded through September, at the Capitol in Washington, March 11, 2025. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)
March 13, 2025, 10:46 am
Jewish, Muslim groups condemn Trump’s use of ‘Palestinian’ as slur to put down Schumer
CAIR says using term in that way is ‘beneath dignity of his office’; Jewish groups say US president doesn’t get to decide who is a Jew and that his remark weaponizes antisemitism
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Migrants walk along the Huixtla highway in the state of Chiapas, Mexico, October 22, 2024, hoping to reach the country's northern border and ultimately the United States. (AP Photo/Edgar H. Clemente)
October 24, 2024, 9:07 am
As US election nears, Jewish groups decry ‘xenophobia, fear and lies’ about immigrants
Thinly-veiled criticism of Trump, signed by Reform and Conservative rabbinic associations and 500 clergy, urges candidates to ‘reject the impulse to seal our borders’
By Ron Kampeas
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies during a House Committee on Homeland Security Hearing on Worldwide Threats to the Homeland on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, November 15, 2023. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)
February 14, 2024, 3:14 pm
US House votes to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas
After motion passes 214-213, Biden pans ‘unconstitutional partisanship’ and ‘petty political games’; Senate Majority Democrat Schumer calls it a ‘sham’
By Agencies
The CEO of the American Jewish Committee, Ted Deutch, left, interviews Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid on June 11, 2023, in Tel Aviv, Israel. (Courtesy of AJC)
July 24, 2023, 10:27 pm
‘First step to destroying democracy’: Diaspora groups alarmed as overhaul law passes
Major community organizations in the United States, the United Kingdom and elsewhere express their concern following the vote on the reasonableness law
By Canaan Lidor
A screenshot from a video on "woke-ism" distributed by Combat Antisemitism. (Screenshot/YouTube via JTA, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
June 22, 2023, 3:03 am
Following backlash, group says video on ‘woke antisemitism’ will not be reposted
Combat Antisemitism Movement walks back project blaming progressive ideology for rising anti-Jewish bigotry after two leading US partners jump ship in protest
By Ben Sales
Amy Spitalnick (Courtesy via JTA)
May 9, 2023, 2:57 pm
Progressive activist Amy Spitalnick tapped to head Jewish Council for Public Affairs
After leading lawsuit against organizers of deadly 2017 neo-Nazi march in Charlottesville, new JCPA head says Jewish world must build coalitions amid ‘broader fight for democracy’
By Ron Kampeas
MK Itamar Ben Gvir seen during a plenum session in the Knesset on June 20, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 14, 2022, 6:00 am
3 years after sounding off against Ben Gvir, US Jewish groups go mum on far-right MK
AIPAC, AJC, Conference of Presidents and JCPA say they won’t wade into Israeli politics, though they weren’t so shy when the prospect of the Kahanist joining Knesset first surfaced
By Ron Kampeas
A law enforcement officer lights a candle outside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, Wednesday, May 25, 2022. (AP/Jae C. Hong)
May 26, 2022, 1:07 am
Jewish groups share horror over Texas shooting, but remain split on gun control
Organizations affiliated with liberal and progressive streams of Judaism call for reforms after latest mass killing, but others shy away from taking politically fraught stance
By Ron Kampeas
Joe Biden, then vice president, speaks at the AIPAC 2016 Policy Conference in Washington, DC, March 20, 2016. (Molly Riley/AFP via Getty Images via JTA)
March 6, 2022, 8:09 pm
AIPAC slammed for endorsing Republicans who refused to certify Biden’s election
Rival J Street says including 37 Congress members who wouldn’t confirm president in list of 120 ‘endangers American democracy’; lobby defends, saying it is a single-issue group
By JTA and ToI Staff
A spokesperson from the Sunrise Movement engages with a protester at the Art Mural #SealTheDeal for Climate, Jobs, Care, and Justice in San Francisco, on August 19, 2021. (Thos Robinson/Getty Images for Green New Deal Network)
October 21, 2021, 10:26 pm
Sunrise distances itself from, but doesn’t condemn, boycott of Zionist groups
National climate change organization says it rejects antisemitism, adds that it was not aware of Sunrise DC’s decision ahead of time, but that group has right to act independently
By Jacob Magid
A spokesperson from the Sunrise Movement engages with a protester at the Art Mural #SealTheDeal for Climate, Jobs, Care, and Justice in San Francisco, on August 19, 2021. (Thos Robinson/Getty Images for Green New Deal Network)
October 21, 2021, 4:47 am
Green activists quit DC rally over inclusion of Jewish groups backing Israel
Washington chapter of Sunrise Movement accused of antisemitism after urging that organizations supporting Zionism be banned from coalition behind voting rights protest Saturday
By Ron Kampeas
A protester from the Uighur community living in Turkey holds an anti-China placard during a protest in Istanbul, October 1, 2020. (Emrah Gurel/AP)
April 29, 2021, 3:43 pm
US Jewish policy umbrella decries China’s ‘genocide’ of Muslim Uighur minority
Jewish Council for Public Affairs calls for ‘grassroots atrocity prevention movement’; also embraces Israel’s normalization with Arab states, commits to fight climate change
By Ron Kampeas
Supporters of US President Donald Trump enter the US Capitol's Rotunda on January 6, 2021, in Washington, DC. (Saul Loeb/AFP)
January 7, 2021, 1:28 pm
US Jewish groups express ‘outrage,’ ‘disgust’ at DC violence, criticize Trump
AIPAC lobby group condemns president’s ‘incitement,’ ADL calls for suspension of his social media accounts; others focus on restoring law and order to Capitol
By Ron Kampeas
Illustrative: Richard Lynch drops his mail-in ballot into a drop box in Hackensack, N.J., Tuesday, July 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
July 24, 2020, 9:23 pm
‘Life or death’: Jewish groups sound alarm on protecting right to vote by mail
Many Jewish groups — political and religious — have aligned on the issue this year and are lobbying for widespread mail-in voting, saying it is crucial in a time of pandemic
By Ron Kampeas
Illustrative: Overhead view of an anti-police brutality Black Lives Matter protest rally on Third Avenue on June 2, 2020, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
June 3, 2020, 2:26 am
130 US Jewish groups, outraged by Floyd killing, pledge to fight systemic racism
Letter organized by Jewish Council for Public Affairs declares ‘solidarity’ with black community and calls for ‘sweeping reforms’ to law enforcement and criminal justice system
By Josefin Dolsten
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