Iymen Chehade says that newly-elected Illinois Congresswoman Marie Newman promised him a job but backed out of a signed contract after he criticized her positions on Israel. Chehade has filed a breach of contract lawsuit and a national-origin discrimination claim against the congresswoman. Newman’s campaign dismissed the accusations as “fallacious.”
“There are more members of Congress at the AIPAC conference than at any other event in the Capitol except the State of the Union address. What does that tell you– more members of Congress attend a banquet for a foreign nation! It’s a command performance and why — to a large degree because then you’re going to get some financial contributions.” — Former Congressman Brian Baird explains the politics of the Israel lobby.
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On April 12 Facebook removed the event page for a panel on Palestine. The next day the tech company shut down the page for the academic program, the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas (AMED) Studies program at San Francisco State University, that sponsored it.
Palestinian Loay Elbasyouni, who was raised in Gaza, was part of the team that helped NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter complete its historic first flight today.
In a matter of just two weeks, six Palestinian families, numbering 27 people, from the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah will be thrown out of their homes and into the street, and replaced with Israeli settlers. Now residents are doubling down on the campaign to #SaveSheikhJarrah.
Palestinian volunteers clean the Al-Aqsa mosque compound ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan,…
Eitan Bronstein Aparicio commemorated the Nakba in Brussels this year. Having distance from Israeli society has helped him gain clarity about Israel’s settler colonialism.
Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer’s statements celebrating Israel’s creation as a Jewish state in the ancient Jewish “homeland” are appalling in their anti-Palestinianism. They fail to say a word about the fact that 750,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled in Israel’s creation and not allowed to return to their homes.
Last week negotiations over an Iran nuclear deal began again and an enrichment site in Iran was promptly attacked. A planned explosion caused a blackout. The head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization said the country had been the victim of “nuclear terrorism.” Anyone with a cursory understanding of world affairs knew who was responsible as soon as they heard the news.