*** ACTION ALERT ***
Contact Speaker Pelosi and tell her to remove Ilhan Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee and cancel Rashida Tlaib's planned trip to the "West Bank." She also needs to rescind
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's appointment to the powerful House Oversight Committee, which is expected to be at the center of investigations into President Donald Trump's administration. The favorable treatment these freshmen progressives are receiving flies in the face of sound logic.
One might go so far to call these assignments treasonous
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** PLEASE CIRCULATE THIS ACTION ALERT WITH YOUR CONTACTS **
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SHE IS NOT QUALIFIED FOR ANY APPOINTMENT!
US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has appointed newly elected legislator Representative Ilhan Omar to the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Omar is a well-known anti-Semite who holds no particular expertise or competence on foreign affairs
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This Congresswoman has a horrific and frightening record of virulent anti-Israel actions that add up to anti-Semitism
as defined by the State Department May 2016 document “
Defining Anti-Semitism
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Rep. Omar’s open hatred of Israel renders her hopelessly biased against Israel making it impossible for her to make a reasonable, rational decision on any issue concerning Israel and the Arab/Islamic world.
Omar's record speaks for itself.
While Omar was a Minnesota state legislator in 2017 she was one of two legislators who
voted against a bill
to stop insurance payments to convicted terrorists.
In 2017 Omar
voted against a bill
that would bar Minnesota from contracting with companies that engage in BDS.
Pelosi’s appointment of Omar sends a frightening message that viscious anti-Israel actions and anti-Semitism is acceptable. This only serves to legitimize anti-Israel actions and anti-Semitism and Israel bashing.
Contact Speaker Pelosi NOW and express your opposition to this disgraceful appointment and demand that Ilhan Omar be removed from the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
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CANCEL THIS TRIP
AFSI has previously reported on Tlaib's virulent anti-Semitism and Israel hating rhetoric and activity.
Contact Speaker Pelosi NOW and demand that this trip be cancelled.
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CALLING OUT THE NEW YORK TIMES
ANTI-SEMITIC OPINION
Michelle Alexander's
January 19 article
in The New York Times, disguised as a Martin Luther King, Jr. Day tribute, is nothing more than a
malevolent diatribe against Israel
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The New York Times must be bombarded with letters and calls denouncing such fake and inflammatory opinion pieces.
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** JUST ADDED - DATES FOR OUR NEXT TRIP! **
Monday - May 27 - Tuesday - June 4, 2019
AFSI Chizuk Mission to Israel.
Exclusive insider mission - bringing and receiving Chizuk. Join us on our next trip to the land of Israel - the REAL Israel. Details on pricing and itinerary are forthcoming. Stay tuned!
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Saturday - January 26, 2019 | Services @ 8:30 AM | Remembrance @ 10:45 AM
United Nations Holocaust Commemoration Shabbat.
Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Gutteres will address the Congregation. Rabbi Arthur Schneier will speak on
“Silence and Indifference Led to the Holocaust.” With the participation of the members of the Diplomatic Corps, Holocaust Survivors, Second and Third Generations.A total of two luncheon tickets are free to Members in good standing. Please
RSVP for the lunch
by Monday, January 21.
Park East Synagogue | 163 East 67th Street, NYC
Sunday - January 27, 2019 from 3 PM - 6 PM - DALLAS, TX
Gidon Ariel, Founder and CEO of Root Source, hosts an interactive event where Jews and Christians will learn ancient texts together, from the Bible, the Midrash, and more, on topics of interest including Shabbat, Torah, Friendship, the Land of Israel - The way Jews have been studying and safeguarding these texts for thousands of years!, Founder and CEO Gidon Ariel. For full schedule and to
register online click HERE
. Suggested donation is $30. For more info email
live@root-source.com;
phone or text: (516) 321-1846
Museum of Biblical Art | 7500 Park Lane, Dallas, TX
Monday - January 28 through Thursday - January 31, 2019
United Nations Annual Holocaust Remembrance Program: "Holocaust Remembrance: Demand and Defend Your Human Rights.”
The Annual Holocaust Memorial Ceremony is Monday, January 28 from 11:00 am - 1 pm. Click
HERE
for the full week long calendar of events and registration.
United Nations | 1st Avenue @ 42nd Street, NYC
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Monday - January 28, 2019 @ 6:45 PM
Americans For A Safe Israel/AFSI Hosts Regavim for a Special Evening Celebrating the Connection of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel.
Regavim is an Israeli NGO dedicated to protecting Israel's most precious resources and preserving Israeli sovereignty. Join us for an in-depth look at the issues shaping Israel's future.
6:45 pm Doors Open
7:00 pm Presentation Begins
7:45 pm Q & A
8:00 pm – 8:30 pm Light refreshments (kosher)
RSVP to reserve your seat.
Space is limited
- Admission free. RSVP to either
ilene@afsi.org
or call 212.828.2424.
Event held at The Brownstone | 224 East 12th Street, NYC
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Thursday - January 31, 2019 @ 8 PM
Abdallah and Francine Simon State of World Jewry Event: The New Jewish State Law and Israel's Future.
Panel includes Eugene Kontorovich, Peter Beinart, Anat Wilf and Rabbi Peter J.Rubinstein. Tickets from $35. Purchase
HERE
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92nd Street Y | 1395 Lexington Avenue, NYC
Sunday - February 3, 2019 @ 2 PM
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra at Carnegie Hall.
Music Director since 1969, Zubin Mehta conducts the orchestra for the last time before he steps down in 201
9. Itzhak Perlman performs Beethoven, Kreisler, Pártos, and John Williams with the orchestra on the first half of the program. Tchaikovsky’s majestic Symphony No. 6 concludes the performance.
Tickets prices range from $25 - $154.
Purchase HERE
or call 212-247-7800
Carnegie Hall (Stern Auditorium) | 881 7th Avenue @ 57th Street, NYC
Monday - February 4, 2019 | 7 PM to 9 PM
The Israeli Ambassador and the American Journalist, on the Record.
A conversation with Ron Dermer (Israel's Ambassador to the United States) Ethan Bronner (Senior Editor at Bloomberg) and Rabbi Rachel Ain (Sutton Place Synagogue). They will go public on a full range of topics from A(delson) to Z(ionism). Seats $18 online | $22 at the door | Free for students with a valid ID. Register
HERE
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Sutton Place Synagogue | 225 East 51st Street, NYC
Tuesday - March 12, 2019 @ 7 PM
First Person: Matti Friedman in Conversation with Lucette Lagnado
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Friedman’s new book, "
Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel
" tells the unknown story of four of Israel’s first spies. Recruited by a rag-tag outfit called the Arab Section before the 1948 War of Independence, they assumed Arab identities to gather intelligence and carry out sabotage and assassinations. At the height of the war the spies posed as refugees fleeing the fighting, reached Beirut, and set up what became Israel’s first foreign intelligence station. In a wide-ranging First Person conversation, Matti Friedman speaks with author Lucette Lagnado ("The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit") about his journalism career, researching and writing his new book, and what Spies of No Country reveals about Israel in the 20th and 21st centuries. Ticket prices: $15 general; $12 seniors; $10 CJH members and students. Buy online at
friedman.bpt.me
or call 800-838-3006.
Center for Jewish History | 15 West 16th Street, NYC
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