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Three months almost to the day after a Bremerton City Council meeting was Zoom-bombed with antisemitic hate speech, the Council voted unanimously (7-0) on January 17th, 2024 to adopt the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism "in full for the City of Bremerton, including the examples provided by the IHRA" as a tool to help the city identify, combat, and respond to antisemitic hate speech and hate crimes.

AJC issued a statement upon the announcement by President-elect Trump that he will nominate ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State.

The Bremerton City Council did the right thing on January 17, when it unanimously voted to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance Working Definition of Antisemitism in response to an incident of vile hate speech targeting our local Jewish community.

And if Israel was truly a settler-colonialist state dominated by white Europeans, that would make it hard to explain how 21% of Israelis are Palestinian Arabs, who have the same rights and responsibilities as Jewish Israelis. That includes serving in the military, the Knesset, and Israel’s Supreme Court. But that is yet another inconvenient truth for those who hated Israel even before Hamas went on its spree of murder, rape and kidnapping.