Mondoweiss spoke with political consultant Peter Feld about the declining support for Israel across the political spectrum and age groups, and the far-reaching effects it’s having on U.S. politics, from local mayoral races all the way up to Trump.
House progressives press the Biden administration over Israel’s discriminatory travel restrictions and warn against granting the country a visa waiver.
An Israeli delegation recently traveled to Washington, D.C. to pressure the Biden administration into accepting its terror designation for six Palestinian human rights groups.
Democratic congressional members are calling on the Biden administration to take action over Israel’s recent attacks on human rights groups.
Ayanna Pressley leads US lawmakers in calling for Biden to reject Israel’s blacklisting of human rights groups
Israel’s declaration of six leading Palestinian human rights and civil society groups as “terrorist” organizations continues to have reverberations in Washington. Rep. Betty McCollum has introduced a resolution calling on the U.S. House of Representatives to condemn Israel’s announcement, and specifically called for the Biden administration to “publicly condemn this authoritarian and antidemocratic act of repression by the Government of Israel against prominent Palestinian civil society organizations.”
Are Massachusetts activists successfully moving local politicians on Palestine? Pro-Israel groups sure think so.
Pro-Israel groups lament they have lost Rep. Ayanna Pressley as a dependable vote.
Israel has begun demolitions in the al-Bustan area of Silwan. Most Democratic congress members have largely ignored the destruction, but a small group of progressive House members are speaking out.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s courageous encounter with President Biden on a tarmac in Detroit yesterday, demanding action against Israeli war crimes, is already having an effect. Biden, who is on the defensive from the progressive wing of his party, told Netanyahu today that he “expects ‘a significant de-escalation today on the path to a ceasefire,” NBC reports.