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TEL AVIV - The Trump medication volition bash much than its predecessor to combat the tidal question of Jew-hatred unleashed by Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, massacre, Israeli Minister for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism Amichai Chikli told Fox News Digital.
Chikli noted that, erstwhile confirmed, the caller U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, former Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., volition participate into 1 of the epicenters of the planetary battle connected the Jewish radical and their state.
"We saw Stefanik astatine the proceeding connected field antisemitism successful Congress," helium said, noting that erstwhile confirmed arsenic a elder subordinate of the Trump medication she volition beryllium "stationed successful 1 of the astir hostile arenas: the U.N." Chikli added that she's "A warrior against antisemitism, we are precise blessed with her appointment."
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In December 2023, Stefanik was wide praised during a legislature proceeding connected the detonation of antisemitism astatine American universities. She asked the presidents of Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania and Massachusetts Institute of Technology if calling for genocide against Jews violated their codes of conduct.
A twelvemonth later, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson unveiled the U.S. House of Representatives Staff Report connected Antisemitism, compiled by six legislature committees.
Chikli told Fox News Digital 4 actionable measures to curb the phenomenon: "Enforcing strict compliance with Title VI to prohibit favoritism and code antisemitism connected campus; withholding national backing to institutions that boycott Israel oregon tolerate antisemitic behavior; requiring universities to disclose overseas contributions and tightening authorities oversight; and revoking backing and taxation exemptions for groups and universities that propagate antisemitism oregon enactment terror-related activities."
"This study from the talker of the House shows that this [Trump] medication is highly committed to countering antisemitism," Chikli said.
In her caller role, Stefanik has besides promised to combat Jew-hatred astatine Turtle Bay, which she described arsenic a "den of antisemitism."
"Even earlier the barbaric violent attacks by Hamas connected Oct. 7, the U.N. has continuously betrayed Israel and betrayed America, acting arsenic an apologist for Iran and their violent proxies," Stefanik said successful November aft her nomination.
During her Senate confirmation connected Tuesday, she said the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), a conduit for planetary assistance to the Palestinians, should beryllium "at the bottommost of the list" of organizations to person American funding.
In January 2024, then-President Joe Biden halted funding to UNRWA aft Israel released grounds that the agency's unit participated successful the Oct. 7 massacre.
According to Chikli, UNRWA efficaciously serves arsenic Hamas's acquisition system, which successful crook makes it the motor fueling antisemitism passim Gaza and Palestinian-administered territories successful the West Bank, known by Israelis arsenic Judea and Samaria.
"It takes a colony to rise a child, and it takes a colony to rise a terrorist. And if you enactment a kid successful UNRWA schools, you tin beryllium definite that helium volition postgraduate with the mindset of a terrorist," Chikli told Fox News Digital.
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"[Palestinian children] will larn to respect termination bombers, Hamas Nukhba terrorists who butchered guiltless people. They spell to schools named aft terrorists, with textbooks that see mathematics problems astir however galore Israeli soldiers were attacked oregon however galore stones were thrown astatine them," helium continued.
"That is wherefore it is captious to marque definite UNRWA is unopen down," helium added.
In October, the Israeli parliament banned UNRWA from operating successful the Jewish state. The instrumentality takes effect connected Jan. 30.
A spokesperson for Israeli Opposition Leader Yair Lapid told Fox News Digital that "the authorities and the planetary assemblage has had 90 days to find alternatives to UNRWA."
He declined to accidental whether Lapid was successful interaction with the Trump medication to sermon "day after" plans erstwhile UNRWA ceases operations.
In August, UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini confirmed the probable engagement of astatine slightest 19 UNRWA employees successful the Oct.7 massacre, saying that "the grounds – if authenticated and corroborated – could bespeak that the UNRWA unit members whitethorn person been progressive successful the attacks."
He aboriginal confirmed that astatine slightest 9 UNRWA staffers were fired aft an interior probe.
UNRWA Director of Communications Juliette Touma told Fox News Digital that "we are committed to staying and delivering [aid] successful the occupied Palestinian territories, including the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and East Jerusalem, until we cannot."
"UNRWA has the astir robust systems successful spot successful examination to different United Nations agencies erstwhile it comes to the adherence to the rule of neutrality with regards to our programs that we bash and our staff," she said.
Asked whether the enactment has enactment unneurotic a program for ongoing operations erstwhile the Israeli prohibition kicks in, she said, "We person not."
Ayelet Samerano’s son, Yonatan, was kidnapped by a violent who besides reportedly worked for UNRWA connected Oct. 7, 2023. A video of the violent dragging Yonatan's lifeless assemblage into a car went viral.
"I volition not fto it go. I americium pressuring the authorities precise hard for the law, which passed successful the Knesset, to beryllium implemented," Samerano told Fox News Digital. "I didn’t cognize UNRWA before, but past I investigated and recovered galore documents that beryllium it's progressive successful terror. That they were progressive successful taking hostages connected Oct. 7 and holding kidnapped Israelis successful their homes and buildings means determination is nary crushed for this enactment to proceed to exist."
"We indispensable guarantee that UNRWA volition beryllium replaced by different enactment that volition assistance the Gazans and marque definite panic does not infiltrate them," she continued. "People extracurricular of Gaza and funny successful existent bid indispensable thatch a caller program that volition make opportunities for Gazans, not terror."
Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Danny Danon told Fox News Digital that Stefanik is "a staunch state of Israel and of the Jewish people."
"She leads with motivation clarity and a beardown committedness to justness and truth," helium said. "I americium looking guardant to moving with her astatine the U.N., wherever the demonization and distortions astir Israel are retired of control."
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