Palestinian asylum-seeker, Mohammed Abushanab, is challenging his indefinite detention by ICE in Texas.
This year, Israel will account for over a quarter of all free travel gifted to Congress members, and AIPAC is overwhelmingly setting the agenda.
The vast majority of the Republican party and a number of hawkish Democrats are rallying around Trump’s war on Iran.
Trump has threatened to join Israel’s war on Iran, but the American people want no part of it.
AIPAC has spent $12 million in just two congressional races. Joe Biden notices even if the media doesn’t.
On the campaign trail John Fetterman positioned himself as a staunch supporter of Israel. Can activists push him on the issue?
Control of Congress remains up in the air following the 2022 U.S. Midterm elections but the outcome still has some interesting implications for Palestine advocacy.
A surprising number of Democratic politicians running in close elections have not been vocally supportive of Israel after it attacked Gaza. They include Raphael Warnock, Mark Kelly, John Fetterman, and most of the candidates in the crowded 10th district in New York. These Dems surely see Israel as an issue that is going to cause them problems with Democratic voters, so they avoid the association.
AIPAC’s tactics are receiving increasing attention within the mainstream.
Two Democratic primaries in Pennsylvania this week were particularly instructive for advocates of Palestinian freedom and rights but carried very different lessons.