Dmitriy Shapiro, Author at J-Wire

Queen Elizabeth’s relationship with Holocaust survivors and the State of Israel

Dmitriy Shapiro — Sun, 11 Sep 2022 02:46:04 +0000

Jews around the world are reflecting on the consequential 70-year reign of Queen Elizabeth II following her death on Thursday and what she meant for the Jewish community. Shortly after the news was announced, Britain’s Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis released a video where he expressed condolences from the Jewish community throughout the Commonwealth. Mirvis said […]

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420-1: The U.S. House of Representarives votes to condemn antisemitism

Dmitriy Shapiro — Sun, 22 May 2022 07:27:49 +0000

The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly has passed a bipartisan resolution to condemn anti-Semitism. In a vote of 420-1, the House passed H. Res. 1125, which denounces the rising hostility towards Jews in recent years and a surge in physical violent incidents. The effort was led by Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) along with Reps. […]

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Deborah Lipstadt confirmed as US special envoy on antisemitism

Dmitriy Shapiro — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 06:39:15 +0000

Deborah Lipstadt, U.S. President Joe Biden’s nominee for the position of Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, was officially confirmed to the position by the U.S. Senate on Wednesday night. Lipstadt’s nomination was brought to the floor of the Senate by Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.), who asked for unanimous consent on her nomination. “Right […]

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Source: Republican leader whips up votes against antisemitism nominee Deborah Lipstadt

Dmitriy Shapiro — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 02:39:32 +0000

Ahead of a likely vote on the nomination for Deborah Lipstadt to serve as the U.S. State Department’s Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, how many Republicans, if any, will vote to favorably report her nomination out of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee remains to be seen. Democrats are expressing concern that Republican members […]

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Natan Sharansky on Vladimir Putin: He will go as far as the world lets him

Dmitriy Shapiro — Sun, 13 Mar 2022 06:34:01 +0000

Famed Jewish dissident, human-rights activist and former Knesset member Natan Sharansky provided his opinion on the situation in Ukraine on Tuesday, analyzing what could be Russian President Vladimir Putin’s motivations for the invasion into Ukraine, as well as the moral obligation Israel and the West have to support Ukraine. In a Zoom session hosted by […]

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Ukrainian ambassador appeals for military aid, stronger sanctions amid Russian onslaught

Dmitriy Shapiro — Sun, 27 Feb 2022 07:06:01 +0000

As Russian military forces bore down on Ukraine’s capital city of Kyiv on Friday, Ukrainian Ambassador to the United States Oksana Markarova spoke to over a hundred supporters and leadership of the National Coalition Supporting Eurasian Jewry (NCSEJ) on Friday, calling for stronger sanctions and military aid to help Ukrainians repel the invasion. In the […]

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Under economic and geopolitical pressure, Erdoğan attempts to make nice with Israel

Dmitriy Shapiro — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 06:28:42 +0000

In a virtual discussion held by the Endowment for Middle East Truth (EMET), Turkish scholar and former politician Aykan Erdemir said Jews should be wary of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s outreach efforts towards Jews and Israel. After nearly two decades of increasingly antisemitic and anti-Israel rhetoric, Erdoğan has begun making conciliatory gestures towards Jews […]

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Biden administration remains ‘deeply blind’ to inherent flaws of UNRWA, say Mideast experts

Dmitriy Shapiro — Sun, 09 Jan 2022 05:14:49 +0000

The U.S. State Department’s Population, Migration and Refugees Bureau ended 2021 with another payment to the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), a move some experts have criticized as wrongheaded and in line with an eagerness to blindly reverse policies put forth by the Trump administration. On Dec. 30, the bureau tweeted […]

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Dani Dayan on what Holocaust taught about extremes and how antisemitism persists

Dmitriy Shapiro — Sat, 13 Nov 2021 23:56:24 +0000

In his first visit back to the United States as chairman of the Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Centre in Jerusalem, former Israeli Consul General in New York Dani Dayan seek to impart a sense of unity that he believes is an essential piece in the knowledge of the Holocaust and Jewish identity around the […]

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US, Israel remain at loggerheads over consulate to Palestinians in downtown Jerusalem

Dmitriy Shapiro — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 03:54:30 +0000

Israel and the United States remain at an impasse about American plans to reopen the U.S. consulate on Agron Road in downtown Jerusalem that was closed under former President Donald Trump. The Biden administration and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken have consistently touted their hopes of reviving America’s relationship with the Palestinian Authority, which […]

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