The latest dishonesty from CNN’s Biased Duo, Jake Tapper and Dana Bash, about Rashida Tlaib prompted an intense critical reaction. The solution? CNN should ban them from reporting on Palestine.
We kick off this week’s newsletter with a dispatch from Deyar Jamil, who is volunteering…
The image of Aaron Bushnell will stick with many people for the rest of their lives. His act will be remembered along many others who made an ultimate sacrifice against injustice. Just don’t expect U.S. politicians or media to remember him that way.
President Joe Biden predictably won Michigan Democratic primary, but more than 100,000 people voted “uncommitted” over the administration’s policy in Gaza.
Activists are calling for a ballot protest at Michigan’s February 27 primary, in an effort to push President Joe Biden to support a ceasefire and end the administration’s support for Israel’s brutal assault on Gaza.
Michigan could very well end up being an enduring symbol of the Biden administration’s failures.
A delegation of Biden officials are visiting Muslim and Arab leaders in Michigan today to try to reverse plummeting support for the president over Gaza, but no number of hastily arranged meetings can repair this rift.
Some viewed AIPAC’s role in the Michigan Democratic Party primaries as a proxy war over the issue of Israel within the Democratic party, but the reality is a little more complicated.
Political action committees linked to pro-Israel lobby groups are spending more in Democratic primary elections than ever before. But what are the results?
Polling by Huwaida Arraf, a Democratic House candidate in Michigan, shows that her position of cutting off aid to Israel is not unpopular. “Palestine is a political positive…Attitudes toward military aid to Israel undermine claims by AIPAC that strong support for Israel is ‘good politics… [S]ix in ten (60%) voters under 45 want aid to Israel reduced or ended,” a memo to donors asserts.