Ilhan Omar is leading a boycott of Israeli president Isaac Herzog’s speech to Congress this week, saying a country that banned her and Rashida Tlaib, both Muslims, from visiting should not get an audience from a joint session of Congress.

Two new legislative efforts to force the Biden administration to investigate the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh were announced this week.

The battle between J Street and AIPAC to influence the Democratic Party is also opening space for Palestine solidarity to enter the mainstream.

Two congressional letters to the Biden administration on the ethnic cleansing in Masafer Yatta show the differences within the Democratic Party when it comes to Palestine.

Rep. Rashida Tlaib has introduced a historic resolution acknowledging the Nakba, which calls on the U.S. government to officially recognize the event and honor the rights of Palestinian refugees.

Zionists are working hard to decouple the struggle for racial justice in the United States from Palestinian liberation, but the movements are intertwined through shared experiences of state violence and a legacy of joint struggle.

The South Florida Sun Sentinel called progressive State Rep. Omari Hardy him “the future of the Florida Democratic Party” in endorsing him for Congress. And that terrifies the Democratic Majority for Israel, which is seeking to block his progress because he supports BDS and Palestinian human rights.

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.”

Hundreds of Palestinians gathered in the city center of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday in protest of the Palestinian Authority’s killing of popular activist and dissident Nizar Banat earlier this summer.  The demonstration came on the heels of mass arrests by the PA of prominent Palestinian critics of Abbas’ regime. These arrests have caught the eyes of the international community, including some members of Congress.

While celebrating Andrew Cuomo’s departure be sure to spare a thought for his anti-BDS efforts.