AAF’s letter to CBS News

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October 16, 2024 Wendy McMahon Chief Executive Officer CBS News 51 West 52nd Street New York, New York, 10019 Dear Wendy McMahon, The Free Press recently reported that your network’s senior director of standards and practices instructed CBS News employees to avoid referring to Jerusalem as being in Israel, a factually correct statement. Why CBS News would encourage its employees, including journalists, to deny this fact defies reason. Parts of Jerusalem have been the capital of modern Israel since 1948 and all of Jerusalem came under Israeli control in 1967, following the Six-Day War. The United States government has legislatively recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital since 1995.

Most recently, the Trump-Pence Administration moved the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem in May of 2018 and reiterated that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, despite the widespread belief that it could not be done. Jerusalem is in Israel. This is simply a fact. Again – the CBS News decision to deny the reality of Jerusalem as being in Israel makes no sense. We, the undersigned, as leaders of the Jewish American Community and friends of the Jewish American Community, are deeply concerned with your organization’s decision and request a meeting to understand your organization’s policy of denying that Jerusalem is in Israel.

Thank you, Paul Teller Tony Perkins Executive Vice President President Advancing American Freedom Family Research Council Morton Klein Matthew Brooks National President CEO Zionist Organization of America Republican Jewish Coalition Penny Nance Lisa B. Nelson CEO & President CEO Concerned Women for America American Legislative Exchange Council

Joel Griffith Duvi Honig Co-Chair Founder & CEO Young Jewish Conservatives Orthodox Jewish Chamber of Commerce Noah Wall Matthew Foldi Executive Director Editor-in-Chief State Financial Officers Foundation Washington Reporter Kristen Ullman Daniel Pipes President President Eagle Forum Middle East Forum Frank Gaffney OJ Oleka Host CEO “Securing America” State Financial Officers Foundation Clifford D.

May Ilya Shapiro* Founder & President Director of Constitutional Studies Foundation for Defense of Democracies Manhattan Institute Maureen Blum Shoshana Bryen Executive Director Senior Director Catholics Count Jewish Policy Center Robert Chermin Marci McCarthy Chairman Chairman American Center for Education & Knowledge DeKalb County Republican Party Hon. Michelle Bachmann Aaron Evans Former Member President U.S.

Congress American Fortitude Bob Lang Bob Carlstrom Head President Efrat Religious Council Association of Mature American Citizens Russell Berman Richard Allen Professor of Comparative Literature Founder Stanford University JCC Watch Horace Cooper Ted Frank Chairman Director of Litigation Project 21 Black Leadership Network Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute Josh Hammer* Len Khodorkovsky Senior Editor at Large Former Deputy Assistant Newsweek Secretary of State for Digital Strategy

Dr. Minerva Diaz Susan Silverie CEO Executive Assistant Lions Gate Communicate LLCTX Heritage Foundation C. Preston Noel III Dr. Susan Michael President USA Director Tradition, Family, Property, Inc The Heritage Foundation Pam S. Roberts Linda W. Smith, Ph.D. Immediate Past President Executive Vice President Kentucky Federation of Republican Women National Religious Broadcasters Michael Ledeen Barbara Ledeen Former Senior Fellow Former Senior Staffer Foundation for the Defense of Democracy Senate Judiciary Committee Ann Shockett Tim Jones Former President Former Speaker National Federation of Republican Women Missouri House Drew White Dr.

Carl Herbster CEO President Palisade Policy Group AdvanceUSA Ruthie Lieberman Sarah Paley CEO Co-Founder Jaffe Strategies Ltd. The Yes! Israel Project Michael Granoff Aharon Friedman Managing Partner Former Senior Advisor Maniv Mobility Department of Treasury Sarah N. Stern Philippe Blumenthal Founder & President Founder & CEO The Endowment for Middle East Truth The Government Savings Institute Allen Roth Rabbi Yaakov Menken President Managing Director Secure America Now Coalition for Jewish Values Adam W. Schindler Ron Armstrong Chief Digital Officer President America First Policy Institute Stand Up Michigan Lt. General Haibataullah Alizai Mark J.

Schwartz Former Chief of Staff Councilmember Afghanistan Army Township of Teaneck, NJ

Maria Bordonaro Donna Jollay Social Media Director Owner American Center for Education & Knowledge Jerusalem Tours Peggy Nienaber Isaac Woodward Senior Vice President Director Faith & Liberty Philos Project Jason Poblete, Esq. Hon. Yleem Poblete, Ph.D. President Former Global Liberty Alliance Assistant Secretary of State Carrie Simms Daryl Hedding CEO Treasurer For Such A Time As This Shai Fund Jonathan Alexandre Gary Kaufman, J.D. Vice President of Government Affairs Kaufman Tax Law Liberty Counsel Autry J. Pruitt Robert Silverman Chairman Editor-in-Chief New Journey Jerusalem Strategic Tribune Hon. George K. Rasley Jr.

Glenn Taubman Managing Editor Community Leader Conservative HQ Greater Northern Virginia Area Marie Taubman John Suarez Community Leader Executive Director Greater Northern Virginia Area Center for a Free Cuba Joseph Langer Adam Lovinger CEO Vice President for Strategic Affairs Comprehensive Money Mgt. The Gold Institute for International Strategy Derek Harvey Kevin Freeman Former Senior Director for the Middle East Founder National Security Council NSIC Institute Meaghan Mobbs Gary Marx Senior Fellow President Independent Women’s Forum The Concord Fund L. Brent Bozell III Dan Schneider Founder and President Vice President for Free Speech Media Research Center Media Research Center

Elliot Pasik, Esq. Sant Gupta President Interfaith Dialogue and Outreach Jewish Board of Advocates for Children, Inc. Barry Maiten Jeff Dunetz Community Leader Director of Special Projects Greater Los Angeles Area Herut North America Michael D. Cohen, Ph.D. Bobby Brown CEO Former Advisor Cohen Research Group Israeli Prime Minister(s) Lela Gilbert Janet Morana Fellow Executive Director Hudson Institute Center for Religious Freedom Priests For Life Prolife Leader Frank Pavone Joan Smutko National Director Priests For Life *for identification purposes only