Zahra Billoo has been voted off the Women’s March national board. Billoo responded on Twitter saying she was dropped following a “campaign is driven by people who oppose me and my work challenging the occupation of Palestine.”
Trump’s Education Department lands another blow against free speech.
A new report shows that a net majority of Democratic voters support cutting aid to Israel based on the country’s human rights violations. Nonetheless, only two Democratic presidential candidates have floated the idea during this campaign and neither has provided much in way of details.
Rep. Debbie Dingell has withdrawn her support from a bill that promotes the human rights of Palestinian children.
Recent comments by Republican members of Congress who traveled to Israel as part of a trip sponsored by AIPAC indicate that GOP support for Israel is moving beyond cynical two-state solution rhetoric and toward a more public embrace of Netanyahu’s annexation vision.
Netanyahu wants to annex the West Bank, what will the Democrats do?
Act.IL is a worldwide pro-Israel campaign funded by the country’s government which sends thousands of trolls on missions to promote Israel and denounce pro-Palestinian stories on social media. Currently the app is pushing a Netflix miniseries based on the life an Israeli spy who did espionage work in Syria, while seeking to hurt the HBO series “Our Boys.”
When Obama was battling Netanyahu, Joe Biden threw his arm around an Israeli official and said, “Just remember that I am your best fucking friend here.” Now Biden is collecting on the friendship, raising money at the Manhattan home of an Israel supporter, Jack Rosen, who does not want the U.S. to return to the Iran deal.
Israel arrested 69 children last month, do Democrats care?
Ismail B. Ajjawi, a 17-year-old Palestinian freshman at Harvard, is at the school and awaiting to begin classes after being denied entry into the United States earlier this month.