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“Punch a Zionist” backlash: In response to the McGill student union rep who garnered serious media attention last week for his controversial “punch a Zionist” tweet, CIJA issued a press release yesterday stating that the organization “remains concerned about calls for violence against Zionists at McGill.”
Calling for violence against students is an egregious violation of basic ethics and is completely unacceptable.
— CIJA (@CIJAinfo) February 12, 2017
Another day, another rally: In New York yesterday, HIAS, formerly the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, organized a rally to protest President Donald Trump’s executive order banning all refugees from the country for 120 days.
Israel won’t allow Peru’s former fugitive president, whose wife is an Israeli citizen, into the country.
No more dual citizenship in France? Marine Le Pen, the leader of France’s far-right National Front party, said she’d like to prohibit French citizens holding dual citizenship of other countries, including, she clarified, Israel and the United States.
