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Richard Goldberg is a senior advisor at FDD. From 2019-2020, Richard served as the Director for Countering Iranian Weapons of Mass Destruction for the White House National Security Council. He previously served as chief of staff for Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner and deputy chief of staff and senior foreign policy adviser to former U.S. Senator Mark Kirk of Illinois in both the U.S. House and Senate.

As a staff associate for the House Appropriations Subcommittee on State-Foreign Operations, Richard worked on a wide range of issues related to U.S. foreign assistance, including foreign military financing, international security assistance, international peacekeeping, development, global health and economic support funds.

He was a founding staff director of the House U.S.-China Working Group and was among the first Americans ever to visit China’s human space launch center. A leader in efforts to expand U.S. missile defense cooperation with Israel, Richard played a key role in U.S. funding for the Arrow-3 program, Iron Dome and the deployment of an advanced missile defense radar to the Negev Desert.

In the Senate, Richard emerged as a leading architect of the toughest sanctions imposed on the Islamic Republic of Iran. He was the lead Republican negotiator for three rounds of sanctions targeting the Central Bank of Iran, the SWIFT financial messaging service, and entire sectors of the Iranian economy. Richard also drafted and negotiated legislation promoting human rights and democracy in Iran, including sanctions targeting entities that provide the Iranian regime with the tools of repression. His Iran sanctions work was featured in the book The Iran Wars.

As the governor’s chief of staff, Richard managed government in America’s fifth-largest state with oversight of all day-to-day operations, including homeland security, public safety, and public health. He also spearheaded the first-ever state legislation to divest public pension funds from companies engaged in boycotts of Israel, which sparked a nationwide initiative in state capitols around America.


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Lori Lowenthal Marcus is a lawyer in private practice. She is also the Legal Director of The Deborah Project ([link removed]) , a public interest law firm that represents people who are discriminated against in educational settings because they are Jewish and/or pro-Israel.

In the case filed May 12, 2020 in federal court in Los Angeles, Concerned Jewish Parents and Teachers of Los Angeles, et al. v. Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Consortium, et al., the Deborah Project is seeking to stop a Consortium of ideologically-driven educators and its allies who are proselytizing and training LA school district teachers to use teaching materials that are virulently hostile to the Jewish state.

The materials include descriptions, as if fact, of Israel as an illegitimate state, one founded on ethnic cleansing, committed to genocide, and maintained as an apartheid state. All Israelis are smeared as “white colonial” oppressors who steal Palestinians land and homes. These materials are being directed at public school children from pre-kindergarten to high school seniors. This is just one of many cases handled at The Deborah Project; they are fighting antisemitism in many different manifestations in many different kinds of academic settings.

Lori began her legal career in the late 1980’s as a litigator in a large national law firm. Her practice consisted primarily of representing media clients in First Amendment cases.

She graduated from Harvard Law School, has two masters’ from Bryn Mawr College, and received her B.A. from Brandeis University. While raising her four children, Lori founded an international Zionist organization, Z STREET.

When the IRS waylaid Z STREET’s application for tax-exempt status, she successfully sued the IRS for viewpoint discrimination. During and following the seven years of the Z STREET litigation, Lori spent nearly a dozen years as a journalist covering Israel, the Middle East, and the Jewish diaspora, particularly the rising tide of antisemitism on U.S. college campuses.
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