The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee is suing the U.S. government over Israel’s entry into the U.S. Visa Waiver Program. “Admitting Israel into the Visa Waiver Program would be an endorsement of discrimination against Palestinian and Arab Americans,” says ADC Director Abed Ayoub.

Israel’s last attack on Gaza was too much for even Sen. Menendez, says Samer Khalaf, president of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. “It was so bad what they were doing that he finally realized, Wait a minute, something is wrong here.” But don’t expect political conversions from pro-Israel congresspeople. Just baby steps.

The new two-state bill in the House promoted by progressive Congresspeople describes Israel as the “national home of the Jewish people.” This language is “unacceptable” to Palestinians, says Jafar Farah of the Mossawa Center in Haifa, because it prolongs discrimination embodied by the fact that Palestinians are not permitted to build a university in Nazareth over 40 years of demanding that right.