PRESSURING QATAR
Jewish Washingtonians gather at Qatari Embassy to push for hostage release
The event was the first major move by the organized Jewish community to pressure Qatar, but organizers were careful not to call it a protest
Rep. Glenn Ivey (D-MD) speaks at the gathering at the Qatari Embassy to push for a hostage release (JCRC of Greater Washington)
On a gray, chilly morning on the edge of Washington D.C.’s Georgetown neighborhood, around 200 members of the D.C.-area Jewish community, toting U.S. and Israeli flags, the now-familiar hostage posters and a few handmade signs, gathered outside the Qatari...