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Policy Compendium POLICY COMPENDIUM POLICY COMPENDIUM 10/22/2015 9/5/2018 INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................... 8 COMMUNITY RELATIONS CORE PRINCIPLES ................................................................ 9 Civility ............................................................................................................................................ 9 Coalition Building ........................................................................................................................... 9 Boycotts ........................................................................................................................................ 10 Civic Engagement and Volunteerism ........................................................................................... 10 Extremist Rhetoric ........................................................................................................................ 10 INTERNATIONAL POLICY .................................................................................................... 11 Israeli-Arab-Palestinian Peace .................................................................................................. 11 Peace Process ................................................................................................................................ 11 Delegitimizing Israel through Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement (BDS) ............... 15 Countering Anti-Jewish and Anti-Israel Activity on Campuses ................................................... 16 Economic Sanctions Including Divestment .................................................................................. 17 Israeli MIAs .................................................................................................................................. 18 Jerusalem....................................................................................................................................... 18 Palestinian “Right of Return” ....................................................................................................... 18 Security Fence ............................................................................................................................... 18 Settlements .................................................................................................................................... 19 Teaching about the Middle East ................................................................................................... 19 Two States ..................................................................................................................................... 19 Israel-U.S. Relations / Israel and the International Community............................................ 20 Foreign Aid ................................................................................................................................... 20 Israel-International Relations ........................................................................................................ 20 Israel-U.S. Relations ..................................................................................................................... 20 Israel-American Jewish Relations................................................................................................. 21 Travel to Israel .............................................................................................................................. 21 Israeli Domestic Concerns .......................................................................................................... 22 The 50th Anniversary of the 1967 War ......................................................................................... 22 Israeli-Palestinian Coexistence ..................................................................................................... 22 Jewish-Arab Coexistence .............................................................................................................. 22 Israelis Evacuated by the Disengagement ..................................................................................... 22 Cross-Border Concerns ................................................................................................................. 23 Israel’s Environment ..................................................................................................................... 23 Gender Segregation in Secular Public Spaces in Israel ................................................................ 23 Social Justice in Israel ................................................................................................................... 24 World Jewry ................................................................................................................................ 24 European Anti-Semitism ............................................................................................................... 26 Jews from Arab Countries ............................................................................................................ 27 Anti-Semitism Related To Middle Eastern Tensions ................................................................... 27 Jews in the Former Soviet Union .................................................................................................. 28 2 Ethiopian Jews .............................................................................................................................. 28 Ethiopian Falash Mura .................................................................................................................. 28 Argentinean Jewry ........................................................................................................................ 29 Eurasian Jews ................................................................................................................................ 29 U.S. Foreign Policy ...................................................................................................................... 29 Support of United Nations ............................................................................................................ 29 Terrorism, Arms Control, and Weapons of Mass Destruction ..................................................... 29 International Religious Freedom................................................................................................... 30 Foreign Aid ................................................................................................................................... 30 Africa ............................................................................................................................................ 31 Iran ................................................................................................................................................ 31 Dependence on Foreign Energy Sources ...................................................................................... 32 International Human Rights ...................................................................................................... 32 International Human Rights .......................................................................................................... 32 International Family Planning....................................................................................................... 33 International Debt Cancellation .................................................................................................... 33 International Criminal Court ......................................................................................................... 33 International LGBT Discrimination .............................................................................................. 33 Persecution of Religious Minorities.............................................................................................. 34 Genocide and Mass Atrocities ...................................................................................................... 34 Advancing Women’s Rights ......................................................................................................... 35 Global AIDS Pandemic................................................................................................................. 35 Torture........................................................................................................................................... 35 Human Trafficking........................................................................................................................ 35 Freedom of Expression/ Defamation of Religion ......................................................................... 37 Haiti............................................................................................................................................... 40 Tibet .............................................................................................................................................. 40 Darfur - Stopping the Genocide in Sudan ..................................................................................... 41 Europe ........................................................................................................................................... 42 DOMESTIC ISSUES .................................................................................................................
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