This seems bad, but I admit to not understanding the true issue here.
No President has recognized Jerusalem as Israel because there are negotiations about what part of Jerusalem belongs to whom.
No President has recognized Jerusalem as Israel because there are negotiations about what part of Jerusalem belongs to whom.
Of course the passport holder can choose their gender, just not their country.
It is shameful that this is so political. A man is a man, a woman is a woman, and Jerusalem is in Israel. Denying the truth doesn’t change it.
In 1947, the U.N. voted to take British-ruled Palestine and divide it into a Jewish state and an Arab state. The U.N. resolution said that the City of Jerusalem would not be part of either state, but would be internationally-administered. That never happened, but every U.S. President, from Truman to today, has refused to recognize Jerusalem as part of Israel, because U.S. foreign policy has been to officially recognize that U.N. resolution. That's why the U.S. Embassy to Israel is in Tel Aviv, not Jerusalem.
When American citizens living in Israel have a child, that child is a U.S. citizen and is entitled to a U.S. passport. U.S. policy is to list "Israel" as the place of birth on the child's passport, unless the child was born in Jerusalem, in which case the passport lists the place of birth as "Jerusalem."
During the Bush Administration, Congress passed a law requiring that U.S. passports issued to U.S. citizens born in Jerusalem list the place of birth as "Israel" if the parents so requested. The Bush Administration, and later the Obama Administration, refused to comply.
Today's SCOTUS decision upholds the Bush-Obama refusal, on the ground that the Constitution gives only the President, and not the Congress, the power to recognize foreign governments, and this power includes the power to decide what boundaries of foreign governments the U.S. will recognize.