Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu canceled a speech to the Jewish Federations of North America this week in Israel after threats of protests from an organization that has historically tried to stay politically neutral.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday canceled his scheduled evening appearance at a convention organized by the Jewish Federations of North America, amid plans by protesters against his government’s judicial overhaul to disrupt his arrival and speech at the event.
The Prime Minister’s Office said “scheduling considerations and preparations for Memorial Day and Independence Day ceremonies” prompted the cancelation, and not the planned protests. The proposed judicial reforms are said to have strained relations between Israel and Jews in the Diaspora, though that is also because many Jewish institutions in the Diaspora lean politically to the left and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Jews, and observant Jews in particular.Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid for telling U.S. Jews to oppose the Israeli government.
Negotiations on the judicial reforms have continued under the auspices of Israel’s ceremonial president, Isaac Herzog, whoJoel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host ofon Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET . He is the author of the new biography,
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