(Capital Times-Madison, Wisc.) The Madison City Council has postponed a vote on a resolution that calls for the adoption of Rafah, a city in the Gaza Strip, as a sister city after a debate and public testimony Tuesday dominated by speakers opposed to the project. Ald. Zach Brandon said the project represents "politics at its worst" and expressed regret that Madison and the City Council have been dragged into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Other opponents accused Rafah of being a hotbed of terrorism. Lester Pines, a member of the Madison Jewish Community Council executive board, took Jennifer Lowenstein, founder of the sister city project, to task for calling the board "a deeply racist, blindly pro-Israel organization."
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