Here is what the Democratic Party’s Israel lobby sees as Israel/Palestine policy under a Biden administration.
This year has been a slog, but in the spirit of the holiday season, here are some of the victories of 2020.
President-elect Joe Biden is set to nominate retired Army general Lloyd Austin as Defense Secretary. After retiring from the military in 2016, Austin joined the board of Raytheon. The defense manufacturer has sold billions of dollars worth of weapons to the Saudi coalition that’s been pummeling Yemen with bombs for years.
Today House Democrats voted on who would become Foreign Affairs Committee chair, now that Rep. Eliot Engel has been ousted from congress. They picked New York’s Gregory Meeks over Texas’ Joaquin Castro in a 148-78 vote.
Officials at the Department of Education have confirmed that they’re moving forward with an investigation into alleged antisemitism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
The focus might currently be on Trump’s attempts at a judicial coup, but eyes are also turning to Georgia’s upcoming Senate runoffs.
Joe Biden has already received more votes than any other presidential candidate in the history of the country, but we maintain an electoral system that was designed to empower white voters in slave states more than two centuries ago, so no one has won at the time I’m typing this.
A guide to highlight some of the races that we are paying attention to as we approach election night 2020.