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Nicholas Liu

RARE PHOTOS: Elise stefanik exalts trump in israel | Rare Historical Photos

Rep. Elise Stefanik, a rising GOP leader and staunch Trump ally who has used her platform to conflate pro-Palestine activism with antisemitism and called for harsh crackdowns against protesters, declared before a group of Israeli lawmakers that America, and particularly Donald Trump, "isfirmly behind Israel and the Jewish people." ()

"When the enemy is inside the gates of the United Nations, America must be the one to call it by its name and destroy it," Stefanik continued, referring to calls for recognizing Palestinian statehood at the United Nations. "President Trump understood that, and b’ezrat hashem, we will return to that strategy soon."

Stefanik spoke at the Knesset, Israel's unicameral legislature, at the invitation of Speaker Amir Ohana, a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's ruling coalition. Although she described her own remarks as a "historic address," Stefanik's audience was limited to members of the Knesset Caucus for Jewish and Pro-Israel Students on Campuses Around the World rather than to the entire Knesset.

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