Local Muslim leader and ‘dear friend’ of Congregation Beth Israel rabbi calls for U.S. to ‘stop funding Israeli apartheid,’ calls Sheikh Jarrah evictions ‘ethnic cleansing.’ By World Israel News Staff A Muslim activist who said she has been friends with Congregation Beth Israel Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker and his wife for over 15 years is an outspoken supporter of BDS and has posted a number of tweets with vehemently anti-Israel statements. Salem wrote on Saturday during the standoff that she was “gutted” to learn that her “dear friend” had been taken hostage. The rabbi and his wife, she tweeted, “are the...