Omar’s comments were wrong and she has proven multiple times that she embodies a vile, hate-filled, anti-Semitic, anti-Israel bigotry. She deserves to be rebuked, by name, and removed from the House Foreign Affairs Committee so that there is no mistake about the values and priorities that..…
Whereas scapegoating and targeting of Jews in the United States have persisted for many years, including by the Ku Klux Klan, the America First Committee, and by modern neo-Nazis; . Whereas accusing Jews of being more loyal to Israel or to the Jewish community than to the United States..…
I am told every day that I am anti-American if I am anti- Israel, Omar tweeted last week, touching off the firestorm after adding that she should not be expected to have pledge support to foreign country order to serve my country Congress or serve on committee... This did not stop the Lobby from..…
Sanders, said criticism of Omar and efforts to get her taken off House Foreign Affairs Committee, primarily from House Republicans, are aimed at stopping discussion about American's toward Israel... ... Ilhan Omar's recent tweets about American Israel Public Affairs..…
He equated their views on Israel with the abhorrent statements of GOP Rep. Steven King, who’d just been stripped of all his committee assignments for espousing white supremacist views. . ..…
“The views of Otzma Yehudit”, the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) tweeted, “are reprehensible. ... Even if Israel’s Central Election Committee resolves to bar Otzma Yehudit from participating in the upcoming elections, little will change in terms of the..…
Eliot Engel, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, calling on them to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar (MN-5) from the Foreign Affairs Committee after she espoused a series of anti-Semitic tropes. . ..…
Palestine/Israel . . The commission found serious human rights violations that may constitute crimes against humanity and called on Israel to “Lift the blockade on Gaza with immediate effect. . . by . . . . ... The commission found “reasonable grounds” to believe..…
“Same thing as Steve King,” Fitzpatrick, who won re-election last year by defeating an anti-Israel Democrat, told Jewish Insider. . King, an Iowa Republican congressman, was stripped in January of his committee assignments after he made remarks questioning how terms such as “white..…
Setting aside that the largest pro-Israel donor to political candidates in the most recent election cycle was the left-leaning JstreetAC (which gave only to Democrats); that AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) was listed as the 147th highest-ranked entity in lobbying spending in..…
The Commission proved Israel’s persistence to use lethal force against the demonstrators in situations where the later posed no danger to the lives of soldiers nor were directly participating in hostilities, in violation of the rules of international human rights law. . ..…
The disagreement began after Omar, in appearance at Washington book store, ments she and fellow Representative Rashida Tlaib made about policy and pro- Israel lobbying group American Israel Public Affairs Committee would be viewed as anti-Semitic because they are Muslim... ..…