The Washington director of Christians United for Israel said his focus would be "on the growing persecution of Christians and the rising tide of anti-Semitic hatred around the world."
The chairman of the U.S. Commission on Religious Freedom suggested that the body declined to address Israel in order to maintain bipartisan solidarity.
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), the minority leader in the U.S. House of Representatives, named Hannah Rosenthal, a longtime Jewish activist, to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom.
