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Democratic witnesses at Senate hate crimes hearing at odds with Jewish communal leaders
Democrats have called Kenneth Stern, a former AJC leader who opposes the Antisemitism Awareness Act, and Maya Berry, the director of the Arab American Institute
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Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.
The two witnesses Democrats have invited to testify at Tuesday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on hate crimes — aimed primarily at the rise of antisemitic and other hate crimes since Oct. 7 — hold views on combating antisemitism that largely...