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After an eight-month delay, Deborah Lipstadt is expected to be nominated by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday. If confirmed, she will wait for a final full Senate vote.

The D.C. Blob just can’t quit Gulf cash.

APN's mission is to educate and persuade the American public and its leadership to support and adopt policies that will lead to comprehensive, durable, Israeli-Palestinian and Israeli-Arab peace, based on a two-state solution, guaranteeing both peoples security, and consistent with U.S. national interests.

Biden administration officials are quietly calling for the US to deal directly with Mohammed bin Salman, not Saudi Arabia's King Salman, Bloomberg reports

“This game is costing us. This process of just holding and holding and holding makes no sense whatsoever,” said Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee.

The confirmation vote for Deborah Lipstadt to serve as the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism was delayed on Tuesday after Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) objected to her nomination. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which approved 11 nominations at its March 8 meeting, postponed Lipstadt’s nomination, as well as that of Barbara Leaf to…

‘The ego of one person is not more important than confirming the highly-qualified Deborah Lipstadt as antisemitism envoy,’ the ADL chief said.

Sen. Ron Johnson asked to hold the nomination - it will be considered in the next meeting. Sen. Menendez: "You don't like a candidate? Vote against them. But this process of holding makes no sense."

GOP Sen. Ron Johnson blocked a vote on the nomination of Deborah E. Lipstadt as the Biden administration’s antisemitism envoy.

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