Meet Amna Farooqi, the Newly Elected Muslim-American President of J Street U
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J Street U, the campus branch of the left wing pro-Israel, pro-peace political lobbying group J Street, announced on Thursday that it has elected a Muslim-American president. Amna Farooqi, 21, who was born in Maryland and will now serve as the head of J Street U’s national student board, reported Haaretz.
The vote was held at J Street U’s Summer Leadership Institute in Washington D.C. Farooqi was running against two others but won “decisively,” said J Street spokesperson Jessica Rosenblum.