What Happened to IfNotNow?
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ONE FRIDAY AFTERNOON in June 2019, the anti-Israeli-occupation group IfNotNow sent its roughly 2,000 members an unusually candid email. “First and foremost: we owe you all, the leaders and members of IfNotNow, an apology,” it began. Part strategy document, part confessional, the email signed by IfNotNow’s full-time staff responded to discontent that had been brewing for months. IfNotNow had become too hierarchical, many members said, leaving local chapters unsupported while paid national staff pursued projects in which the rank-and-file had little say. The staff email committed the group to a process of teshuva, or repentance, borrowing a Jewish religious concept that requires an offending party to repair, to the degree possible, the damage they have done. But for many disgruntled IfNotNow members, it was too late to fix an organization that had veere
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WASHINGTON (JTA) One Wednesday in October 2007, seven Jewish lawmakers on the House Foreign Affairs Committee did something extraordinary: They ignored the pleas of the Jewish establishment.
Jewish politicos were often happy to advance the the agenda of the Jewish groups because it lined up with their ideals.
On this occasion, several powerhouse lobbying groups in the Jewish community were pressing the committee not to advance a bill that would recognize as a genocide the 1915 Ottoman massacres of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians during World War I.
Without Trump, House Republicans huddle in Florida on 2022 messaging strategy Susan Ferrechio © Provided by Washington Examiner
ORLANDO, Fla. - Former President Donald Trump may be one of the most important influencers in the 2022 election, but House Republicans are huddling without him in his home state of Florida as they craft a message that can help them win back the majority next year.
Lawmakers gathered in Orlando beginning on Sunday for a three day, annual issues conference to help chart a course on messaging and policy priorities for the next 18 months.
There will be no pep talk from the former GOP president, who helped create a schism within the party on what role, if any, Trump should play in the party and House Republican efforts to regain power.
Cash-strapped Haiti has an image problem. The government is spending thousands to fix it
Jacqueline Charles
More than 4.4 million are facing a hunger crisis. Inflation remains in the double digits and poverty is rising.
But none of that is stopping Haiti’s cash-strapped government from digging into its meager coffers to pay expensive U.S. lobbyists to help its embattled president, who is increasingly facing criticism from members of Congress and calls from Haitians to step down.
In the last month, the impoverished nation has added at least four new high-powered members to its lobbying team in the United States, according to foreign registration filings with the U.S. Justice Department. The new hires include a former U.S. ambassador to the Dominican Republic, a former chief of staff at the Organization of American States and two influential Democratic donors.
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