By: Kareem Rosshandler Arab and Muslim Americans have good reason to be involved in the presidential elections. As frustrated observers of the Biden administration’s unbridled support for Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza over the last year, their choice at the ballot box should have a particularly powerful effect. But the question is how, given that … Continued
By Luke McMahan/ Arab America Contributing Writer On June 25th, with the loss of incumbent Jamaal Bowman to the AIPAC backed George Latimer, the pro-Israeli committee earned its first victory over the “Squad,” an informal group of House Democrats, most of whom have spoken out against Israel’s and the United States’s support of the War … Continued
Congressman Jamaal Bowman spearheaded a letter dated April 13 from colleagues to the Biden administration counseling greater fairness towards the Palestinian people. John Mason, contributing writer, reports on how Bowman’s upbringing in a Bronx, N.Y. public housing project might make him a strange bedfellow with Palestinians. But the point is that he developed his compassion for these militarily occupied people through his own experience with police intimidation.
By: John Mason / Arab America Contributing Writer Dana Milbank’s recent op-ed goes after Rashida Tlaib for her linking of Israel’s occupation of the Palestinians and the oppression of Black Americans and he conflates this with what he describes as her anti-semitism. Related is AIPAC’s campaign to incite Islamophobia and endangering the lives of “women … Continued
By John Mason /Arab America Contributing Writer Last week in this space we enthusiastically endorsed President Biden’s initiative to reverse former President Trump’s most egregious disasters perpetrated on Israel-Palestine relations. Here we discuss Biden’s hesitancy to take on some of the more intransigent issues that contribute to Israel’s oppression of Palestinians. One of these issues … Continued
SOURCE: VICE NEWS BY: REX SANTUS Democrats appear to be moving left on the Israel-Palestine conflict. Just weeks after Democrats had a meltdown over Rep. Ilhan Omar’s criticism of Israel, seven 2020 Democratic presidential candidates have opted to skip this year’s American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) policy conference, which annually convenes prominent Israel supporters. … Continued
SOURCE: PALESTINE SQUARE BY: OMAR BADDAR “We won’t form a government with the Arab parties.” These were the words of the centrist Yair Lapid who, along with Benny Gantz, is the lead challenger to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the upcoming Israeli election on April 9, 2019. This is what is billed as the alternative to the … Continued
SOURCE: ARAB AMERICAN INSTITUTE BY: DR. JAMES J. ZOGBY You need to prepare yourself for language shock before listening to speeches at the annual convention of AIPAC, the Israel lobby. Speaker after speaker will use words that you think you understand, but they will use them in ways that so distort their meaning that the … Continued
By Jonah Gellman/Contributing Writer The American Israel Education Foundation (AIEF), a branch of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), paid for fifty-three Congressional representatives to visit Israel at the beginning of August. AIEF lobbies for AIPAC, raising the moral question of whether or not AIEF is using its status as an educational foundation to … Continued
By Hanan Ashrawi Anti-War.com Delivered to The Israel Lobby and American Policy conference March 24, 2017 at the National Press Club The Israel Lobby and American Policy conference was solely sponsored by the American Educational Trust, publisher of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, and the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy (IRmep). This … Continued
By Perry Stein The Washington Post Two people were arrested during protests outside the American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference in the District that left a Palestinian American man bloodied and injured. D.C. police say the suspects and victim got into a verbal altercation and one man punched the victim, Kamal Nayfeh, in the face. … Continued
By Allison Deger Modoweiss A 55-year old Palestinian-American instructor at a community college in North Carolina was “brutally beaten” by members of the Jewish Defense League (JDL) while walking by the AIPAC conference in Washington DC on Sunday, according to a video and statement released by the Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU) today. The man … Continued
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