{"id":9943,"date":"2025-02-21T19:25:31","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T19:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jewishpublicaffairs.org\/?p=9943"},"modified":"2025-04-11T15:40:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T15:40:04","slug":"jcpa-and-83-civil-rights-groups-urge-congress-to-reject-funding-for-bigoted-invasion-conspiracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jewishpublicaffairs.org\/press-release\/jcpa-and-83-civil-rights-groups-urge-congress-to-reject-funding-for-bigoted-invasion-conspiracy\/","title":{"rendered":"JCPA and 83+ Civil Rights Groups Urge Congress to Reject Funding for Bigoted &#8220;Invasion&#8221; Conspiracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">JCPA joined more than 83 civil and human rights organizations, labor unions, and community-based groups urging Congress to reject legislation and not to fund executive actions that rely on the false and bigoted \u201cinvasion\u201d conspiracy theory.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Amy Spitalnick, CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs said: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThese dangerous and deadly \u2018invasion\u2019 and \u2018replacement\u2019 conspiracy theories are being used by this administration to advance dehumanizing policies and an unprecedented expansion of presidential power \u2014 directly threatening our communities and our democracy. We know these conspiracy theories have already fueled a cycle of extremist violence targeting Jews, Latinos, the Black community, and others, including the deadliest attack on the Jewish community in U.S. history at Tree of Life in Pittsburgh. Any official who claims to care about our safety and our democracy has a fundamental obligation to reject this extremism.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To read the full letter, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernstatescenter.org\/invasioneo2025\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">click here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JCPA joined more than 83 civil and human rights organizations, labor unions, and community-based groups urging Congress to reject legislation and not to fund executive actions that rely on the false and bigoted \u201cinvasion\u201d conspiracy theory.\u00a0 Amy Spitalnick, CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs said: \u201cThese dangerous and deadly \u2018invasion\u2019 and \u2018replacement\u2019 conspiracy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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