Calling for an immediate deescalation and cease-fire in Israel and occupied Palestine H.Res. 786

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• H.RES.786: Calling for an immediate deescalation and cease-fire in Israel and occupied Palestine.
• Votes: US HR786 2023-2024 118th Congress
• UCLA cancels classes after counterprotesters violently attack pro-Palestinian camp
• Protesters arrested after sit-in at Rep. Jared Golden's Bangor office
• Newport Beach student suspended for remarks to another student, including “Free Palestine”
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The resolution was Stefanik’s bid to leverage her grilling of the presidents of Harvard, University of Pennsylvania and MIT at the hearing where they declined to say if calls for the genocide of Jews violated campus codes of conduct. Penn’s president quit in the wake of her testimony, and the resolution said the other presidents should resign. On the Democratic side, 95 voted yes; 13 no; 92 present; and 13 didn’t vote. This was a painful vote for Brad Schneider, the staunchest pro-Israel Democrat in the delegation and the co-chair of the Israel Allies Caucus. He joined Democrats objecting to the IRS funding scheme and voted no. “I also believe that there is no room for Islamophobia and the hatred and bigotry that is being directed toward Muslim people in our community,” creating “real fear” of “discrimination and the real sense of physical threat,” Underwood said.

H.RES.786: Calling for an immediate deescalation and cease-fire in Israel and occupied Palestine.

This resolution is in the first stage of the legislative process. It will typically be considered by committee next before it is possibly sent on to the House or Senate as a whole. Hamas terrorists also took civilians hostage to hide them in Gaza — mostly Israelis, though also some Americans.

Votes: US HR786 2023-2024 118th Congress

Campbell Robertson, Jenna Russell, Mitch Smith and Rick Rojas contributed reporting. In nearby Berkeley, a cornerstone of the anti-war movement during the 1960s, the City Council can’t reach consensus. Meetings have become so unruly that the council hasn’t been able to convene in person for two weeks. The group’s executive director, Rida Hamida, said she spent nearly a decade working in federal and state government, which taught her the importance of being directly heard by elected officials.

UCLA cancels classes after counterprotesters violently attack pro-Palestinian camp

It has attracted 17 cosponsors, all Democrats, generally considered to be on the left wing of the party. Rep. Massie, the lone Republican holdout on the pro-Israel resolution, has not signed on to this one either. A simple resolution is used for matters that affect just one chamber of Congress, often to change the rules of the chamber to set the manner of debate for a related bill. It must be agreed to in the chamber in which it was introduced.

There’s a long-standing dispute between legislators and the powerful State Building and Construction Trades Council, which represents a variety of skilled laborers, over what this and other housing-related bills should say. But the agency could still apply for federal and state grants, so it makes sense to create it as soon as possible. Also Kamlager is trying to get an allocation of $20 million in the state budget for the agency, which she says could help with rental subsidies, preservation of existing affordable housing and some new construction.

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Early support for Israel following the Oct. 7 slaughter of some 1,200 Israelis by Hamas has been met with calls to help Palestinians. Democratic Reps. Jerry Nadler and Dan Goldman of New York and Jamie Raskin of Maryland urged Democrats to vote present, even as they knew it was hard for many of their colleagues to not support any measure dealing with antisemitism. The GOP-drafted Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act passed on a party-line Nov. 2 vote, providing $14.3 billion in emergency military aid for Israel. Underwood’s no vote on the Jewish student measure surprised and angered some supporters. In the wake of the backlash, Underwood has met several times with longtime Jewish Democratic backers who were stunned by her vote.

Protesters arrested after sit-in at Rep. Jared Golden's Bangor office

The local resolutions have ranged from broad denunciations of violence against all civilians to pointed pro-Palestinian pronouncements. Many have demanded that Hamas release all hostages and denounced antisemitism as well as Islamophobia. Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., one of Trump’s major defenders, was the chief sponsor of a resolution voted on Dec. 13 condemning antisemitism on university campuses and the testimony of three university presidents in a Dec. 5 hearing. Like Richmond, the cities of Cudahy and Oakland recently passed resolutions.

Newport Beach student suspended for remarks to another student, including “Free Palestine”

Schneider, attending the funeral of his sister-in-law, did not vote. Underwood underscored in a Sun-Times interview what she said in a Nov. 29 statement. “Unequivocally,” she said, “antisemitism is wrong in all forms and all places.” Campuses “have a responsibility to make sure that they create a safe space for all students,” she added. On the Democratic side, there were 194 yes; nine no; six present; and three not voting. The Chicago area political turf includes the largest Palestinian and Palestinian-American population in the nation, with most living on the South Side and Southwest suburbs, according to Louise Cainkar, a Marquette University sociologist and Palestinian demographics expert. Chicago ranks fourth among the most Jewish cities in the U.S., according to Brandeis University.

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But this resolution, which will never get a vote in the GOP-run House, is unacceptable to most Democrats because it is backed by “the Squad” and their allies, the hard left wing of the Democratic Party, and there was no mention of Hamas or of getting the hostages back. And in October, it seemed one-sided, asking Israel to stop its incursion without making any demand from Hamas. Rep. Delia Ramirez, a Chicagoan in her first year in Congress, has emerged as one of the highest-profile chief co-sponsors of the Bush measure, joined by, from Illinois, Reps. Jesus “Chuy” Garcia and Jonathan Jackson. The other initial co-sponsors include members known as “the Squad,” Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York; Rashida Tlaib of Michigan; and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts. The Oakland meeting made national headlines after a clip on social media showed several speakers opposing an amendment to the resolution that would have condemned Hamas, with some speakers appearing to back the militant organization. Gov. Gavin Newsom and others later criticized the comments on Hamas.

The basic law of the government of the City of Los Angeles is found in the City Charter, first adopted by a vote of the people in 1924, effective July 1, 1925, and subsequently amended from time to time. The new City Charter, effective July 2000, provided for the creation of a Citywide System of Neighborhood Councils. The goal of the Neighborhoods Councils is to promote public participation in City governance and decision-making process to create a government more responsive to local needs. To get the buy-in of the powerful union, Kamlager amended the bill to require workers on projects under 40 units be paid the countywide prevailing wage for public works. Any project with 40 or more units would be subject to the city of L.A.’s Project Labor Agreement requirements on worker pay and the mix of skill levels on projects. The bill stalled in the Assembly last year over what, if anything, it should specify about wages and the distribution of skilled workers for construction projects.

A Mayor, City Controller, and City Attorney are elected by City residents every four years. Fifteen City Council members representing fifteen districts are elected by the people for four-year terms, for a maximum of three terms. Bangor police say seven people were arrested and were taken to Penobscot County Jail. BANGOR (WGME/BDN) -- A group of protesters were arrested on Wednesday after staging a sit-in at U.S. In San Francisco, Dean Preston, a member of the Board of Supervisors, said he had decided a couple of weeks ago to introduce a resolution, seeking input from a host of advocacy groups, including Jewish Voice for Peace and the Arab Resource and Organizing Center.

He said he heard from a Palestinian woman in San Francisco who has lost 100 family members in Gaza since the attacks began — including another seven in one recent day. In Southern California, the nonprofit Latino Muslim Unity pushed the Cudahy resolution and has urged Santa Ana, Long Beach and other cities near an Anaheim business district known as “Little Arabia” to pass cease-fire proclamations. Advocates for cease-fire resolutions say that they have few other options to get the attention of Washington, where Congress and the White House still support Israel’s military effort.

The measure said the House “clearly and firmly states that anti-Zionism is antisemitism,” an equivalency unacceptable to many Democrats. The resolution passed 412 to 10, with 10 actual “no” votes plus six representatives who voted “present.” Rep. Massie was the only Republican to vote against it, just as he was the only Republican not to cosponsor it. Pro-Israel groups note with concern that even before Oct. 7, hate crimes were soaring. Now, with the Hamas-Israel war on local government agendas, city halls have formally opened the door to potential hate speech and the public spread of disinformation, said Tyler Gregory, chief executive of the Jewish Community Relations Council in San Francisco. Local resolutions on international affairs largely amount to symbolic gestures that play no direct role in foreign policymaking. But they can send a signal to allies abroad over the domestic political temperature and provide a vehicle for some of the most opinionated voters to say their piece.

Two hostages taken in Israel, since released, were from Evanston. And in Plainfield, Wadea Al-Fayoume, a 6-year-old Palestinian American boy, was killed because of his ethnicity and Muslim faith, law enforcement officials said. Pro-Palestinian demonstrations are becoming increasingly frequent in Chicago. Months earlier, only eight people spoke about the city’s endorsement of the Ebony Alert Bill, which establishes an alert system to help find lost Black youth throughout the state. Jewish organizations calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war staged a sit-in Monday at an Oakland federal building. Like in Richmond, debate over Oakland’s resolution lasted for hours, with hundreds of speakers and more than a thousand messages posted online.

The push has been especially intense in heavily Democratic states like California, where pro-Palestinian activists and progressives have expressed frustration with the Biden administration and pressured Democratic-led cities with organized campaigns. Jewish organizations have been alarmed by the effort, which they say has involved antisemitic language and minimized the kidnappings and killings by Hamas. In Seattle, the debate consumed much of two City Council meetings. In San Francisco, the line to speak stretched long all night under the City Hall dome. The Oakland City Council spent four hours just on public comment.