ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA IN THE MEDIA JNS - In Senate Hearing, ZOA’s Mort Klein/Others Quoted Opposing Federal Appeals Court Nominee Who Was on Board of Antisemitic, Israel-Hating Group Greenblatt’s ADL & Deutch’s AJC Shockingly Supports Nominee By Andrew Bernard (JANUARY 18, 2024 / JNS) Republicans and Democrats on the Senate Committee on the Judiciary traded accusations of Islamophobia and “playing the race card” on Thursday over the nomination of a Muslim-American lawyer with ties to what one senator described as “a mouthpiece for Hamas.” The furor erupted during a vote on the nomination of Adeel Mangi for the Third Circuit Court of Appeals when the chairman of the committee Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) entered into the record a letter from the Anti-Defamation League accusing committee members of “berating” Mangi with “with endless questions that appear to have been motivated by bias towards his religion.” “I resent the insinuation that those of us who asked him questions are somehow anti-Muslim or prejudiced in some way,” said Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.). “I think it’s outrageous. I think it’s absolutely outrageous.” “If a nominee for a top judicial post asserted that he was merely a Ku Klux Klan advisory board member, and merely advised on the KKK’s ‘academic research,’ his nomination would be flatly rejected. Mangi likewise must not be confirmed,” wrote Mort Klein, ZOA national president, with Dov Hikind, president of Americans Against Antisemitism; Liora Rez, executive director of StopAntisemitism; and Valeria Chazin, board president of Students Supporting Israel. Republicans on the committee had questioned Mangi at his Dec. 13 nomination over his past role as one of 17 members of the advisory board of Rutgers University’s Center for Race, Security and Rights. The center focuses on “the civil and human rights of America’s diverse Muslim, Arab and South Asian communities,” including the “criminalization of Muslim identity through United States and global national security laws and policies,” per its website. Among the events that the center hosted while Mangi was on its advisory board, which Republicans cited, was a panel on the 20th anniversary of 9/11 that included a man who had pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiring to support Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization since 1997.   CONTINUE READING   DONATE     Share This Email Share This Email Copyright © Zionist Organization of America 2023, All rights reserved. Zionist Organization of America | 633 Third Ave, 31 B, New York, NY 10017 Unsubscribe [email protected] Update Profile | Constant Contact Data Notice Sent by [email protected]