The former President and his wife have been invited to join Woodmont CC in Rockville, Md. as “special members,” in an attempt to quell the dispute over whether they should be excluded because of the policies toward Israel that were instituted by his Adminstration. In South Carolina, Henry McMaster, expected to succeed Nikki Haley as Governor, came under fire for belonging to The Forest Lake Club of Columbia, S.C.

In an email, Jeffrey Slavin, the mayor of Somerset, Md., who has been a member of the club for 61 years, wrote “I can no longer belong to a community: Where Intolerance is accepted, Where History is forgotten, Where Freedom of Speech is denied, And where the nation’s first black president is disrespected.” Some members of the historically Jewish club have said they would not welcome President Barack Obama as a member, because he did not veto a U.N. Security Council resolution criticizing Israeli settlements. There is no indication that Obama has actually asked to join the club.