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House Speaker Mike Johnson speaking to an RJC audience on the first anniversary of the October 7 attacks.
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Republican Jewish Coalition Endorses Mike Johnson to Retain Speaker of the House Role
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The Algemeiner reports:
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The Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) has endorsed Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) to retain his title as speaker of the House of Representatives, citing his strident advocacy for Israel and commitment to combating antisemitism.
"[Rep. Mike Johnson] has shown courageous leadership and moral clarity in taking bold action to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the American Jewish community against unprecedented levels of antisemitism, and resolutely defended the State of Israel as it continues to fight an existential war against Iran and its terrorist proxies," RJC wrote on X/Twitter.
"Speaker Johnson has more than earned our full-throated and enthusiastic support to lead the Republican Majority in the 119th Congress," RJC added.
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The cover of President Jimmy Carter's 2006 book in which he accused Israel of apartheid acts.
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Remembering President Jimmy Carter
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Let us not speak ill of the dead – let us speak truthfully. Despite the praises heaped on former President Jimmy Carter by the mainstream media since his passing on Sunday, for American Jews and for Israel, his legacy was problematic at best. Philip Klein summarizes it well at National Review:
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Carter’s true legacy is one of economic misery at home and embarrassment on the world stage. He left the country in its weakest position of the post–World War II era. After being booted out of office in landslide fashion, the self-described "citizen of the world" spent the rest of his life meddling in US foreign policy and working against the United States and its allies in a manner that could fairly be described as treasonous. His obsessive hatred of Israel, and pompous belief that only he could forge Middle East peace, led him to befriend terrorists and lash out at American Jews who criticized him.
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Former Israeli ambassador to the US, Michael Oren, writes:
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The man whose legacy could have been cherished by future Jewish generations, with streets in Jerusalem named for him and communities created in his honor, will be at best forgotten, if not reviled. That is the tragedy of Jimmy Carter, a leader who could have gone down in Jewish history as a second Truman, will be recalled, if at all, as another Bernie Sanders.
The tragedy is compounded by the fact that the Jewish state owes Carter an immense historical debt. In an anomalous way, his insistence on including the Soviets in the Middle East peace process immediately after Egypt succeeded in evicting them convinced president Anwar Sadat of the need to act swiftly and independently of the United States.
The result came in November 1977, with Sadat’s groundbreaking visit to Israel. Carter, to his credit, leaped into the diplomatic breach, and devoted 13 presidential days to forging the Camp David Peace Accords between Egypt and Israel. Though never close to yielding a warm peace, that treaty has since withstood tectonic pressures and relieved Israel of the threat of large-scale Arab armies.
… But, sadly, that achievement proved to be a one-off. The self-proclaimed champion of human rights, Carter was comfortable with Middle Eastern dictators like Sadat, Hafez al-Assad, and the shah of Iran, but endlessly critical of Israel’s democratically elected leaders, beginning with Menachem Begin.
No sooner were the Camp David Accords signed in 1979 than Carter embarked on a 40-year smear campaign against Israel.
... Carter wasn't satisfied with merely libeling Israel. His final decades were devoted to whitewashing Hamas and presenting it as an organization opposed to terror and dedicated to peace.
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McGurn: It’s Biden’s Policies, Stupid
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It’s nearly time to say goodbye to President Joe Biden, and not a moment too soon. William McGurn, a member of the Wall Street Journal editorial board, writes:
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You knew it was coming. Ever since election night, Democrats from Nancy Pelosi on down have been blaming Joe Biden for costing them the White House. Last weekend Team Biden hit back. On Sunday the Washington Post reported that the president still believes "he could have defeated Trump."
Which raises the question: Were Democrats and the press more dishonest before the election, when they routinely reassured the American people Mr. Biden was sharp as a tack? Or are they now, after the election, when they insist Mr. Biden’s decision to run for re-election—which most supported at the time—doomed Democratic chances for holding the White House?
Missing from the back and forth about Mr. Biden’s decision to run is the slightest recognition that his policies were the source of public dissatisfaction with him. The policies didn’t work. They created problems like inflation. And they damaged the Democratic Party’s credibility when its leaders tried to tell the American people that if only they were smart enough, they would appreciate how good they had it.
As if to underscore the point, when Kamala Harris ran on the exact same agenda, the policies proved just as unpopular.
… If Mr. Biden’s policies were working, the American people might have given him the benefit of the doubt and maybe even elected Ms. Harris. But they didn’t. And rather than reconsider the policies, Democrats complain that Mr. Biden and Ms. Harris had a poor messaging strategy, that Mr. Trump was far better at taking advantage of new media—e.g., his interview with podcaster Joe Rogan—to get his message across.
Which misses the obvious: Mr. Trump won because he had a better message—because of better policies that yielded better results when he was president.
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We Did It!
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THANKS TO OUR EFFORTS, JEWISH COMMUNITIES ACROSS AMERICA MOVED SIGNIFICANTLY TO THE GOP.
Read our exclusive report, "2024 Case Study: RJC Delivered"
for details about what we did, how we did it, and the concrete results we delivered.
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RJC in the News
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Times of Israel: For 'Voices of Impact,' podcast host Isaac Ohrenstein speaks with the Jewish world’s most impactful personalities
Isaac Ohrenstein, who has hosted dozens of important Jewish leaders on his "Voices of Impact" podcast, was asked by the Times of Israel:
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Going back to the idea of finding common ground, you’ve had conversations with Jewish Democratic Council of America CEO Halie Soifer and Republican Jewish Coalition CEO Matthew Brooks. They are diametrically opposed politically, but did you discover any area where the two might have some common ground?
Their passion for what they do. These are people who fundamentally believe they are doing good for America, for Americans, for Israel in some cases, and for Jewish society. It’s really inspiring to see them, and many Jews, making an impact in their respective social circles, whether they are Republicans or Democrats.
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Listen to the July 17, 2024 "Voices for Impact" podcast episode with Matt Brooks.
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Floridian Press: Republican Jewish Coalition welcomes Hillary Cassel to GOP
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2024 was the year of shifting parties as another Democrat has changed her party affiliation to the GOP. Florida state Rep. Hillary Cassel (R) announced today that she would no longer be a Democrat. The Republican Jewish Coalition has welcomed state Rep. Cassel as another Jewish voice in the GOP.
…"As a mother, I want to help build a world where our children are judged on their character and their actions not on their labels," she said in her statement. "As a proud Jewish woman, I have been increasingly troubled by the Democratic Party’s failure to unequivocally support Israel and its willingness to tolerate extreme progressive voices that justify or condone acts of terrorism," she added, mentions that she is "constantly troubled by the inability of the current Democratic Party to relate to everyday Floridians."
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Did you see the TRUMP KIPPAH that Matt held up during his GOP Convention speech?
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GET YOURS HERE!
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Algemeiner: Israeli report to UN exposes Hamas torture, sexual abuse of hostages, including children
The Israeli Ministry of Health has submitted a report to the United Nations special rapporteur on torture that is based on extensive interviews and medical evaluations conducted by Israeli health and welfare teams for more than 100 hostages. The news descriptions of the report's findings, at the link above, are difficult to read. The suffering of the hostages still in captivity is terrible to contemplate. We pray for their speedy release and return to their families.
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Washington Free Beacon: How the Biden Admin allowed Iran to rake in illicit oil cash amid Tehran's terror spree
Adam Kredo reports: "Earlier this year, officials from across the Biden-Harris administration reviewed intelligence detailing Iraq's central role in a billion-dollar Iranian oil smuggling scheme. But they largely ignored that intelligence, according to those briefed on the matter, giving Tehran what one former US official described as a "free pass" to evade American sanctions and rake in illicit cash."
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Wright: The return of the jihad
Mark Antonio Wright, writing at National Review, warns:
"The horror in New Orleans ought to remind Americans what it’s been all too easy to forget in recent years: We may be tired of thinking about Islamist terrorists, but they’re not tired of thinking about us.
"When Shamsud-Din Jabbar drove into a crowd of New Year’s revelers with a pickup truck flying an Islamic State flag and then engaged in a shootout with the police, his psychopathic, murderous intent shocked the nation. Unfortunately, it shouldn’t have. This tactic is a well-known and celebrated ISIS calling card. The carnage on Bourbon Street is the direct descendant of the 2016 Islamic State truck rampage in Nice, France, that killed 86 people and injured hundreds of others. It’s the deranged offspring of the 2016 attack in Berlin’s Christmas market that killed 13. It’s the direct follow-up to the 2017 truck attack that killed eight people and injured a dozen others on Manhattan’s West Side. There have been many other such incidents over the years, including in London, in Spain, and in Canada."
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