Critical reactions to the U.S. State Department’s 2009 International Religious Freedoms Report’s section on Israel continue to be expressed.

Michael Horowitz of the Hudson Institute who, in the mid-1990’s, helped spearhead the Congressional International Religious Freedoms Act, said the U.S. should not "criticize Israel for refusing to secularize its public square, or... criticize the passion felt by Orthodox Jews which causes them to take steps to preserve and protect what they rightly feel to be their vulnerable faith and traditions."