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Post by jdredd on Mar 6, 2019 0:41:07 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2019/03/05/us/politics/ilhan-omar-israel.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage"WASHINGTON — A formal condemnation of anti-Semitism that is up for a vote in the House this week has touched off a furious debate between older House Democrats and their young liberal colleagues over whether Representative Ilhan Omar is being singled out for unfair treatment over her statements on Israel. The resolution, likely to be voted on Thursday, grew out of Ms. Omar’s suggestion last week that pro-Israel activists were pushing “for allegiance to a foreign country” — a remark that infuriated leading Jewish members of the House, who say it played into the anti-Semitic trope of “dual loyalty.” It comes just weeks after Ms. Omar apologized for tweeting that support for Israel was “all about the Benjamins baby,” a reference to hundred-dollar bills that critics said echoed a common anti-Semitic belief that Jewish money is controlling foreign policy."
Ah-ha. The Democrat old guard is feeling the need to shore up their support for Israel by passing a pointless bill. Which is a good sign.
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Post by jdredd on Mar 25, 2019 0:32:26 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2019/03/24/us/politics/senate-republicans-anti-semitism.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage"WASHINGTON — Democrats hoped to put their wrenching intraparty debate over anti-Semitism to rest when they passed a catchall antibigotry resolution in the House this month, but Senate Republicans, eager to court American Jews outraged by the rise of anti-Semitism, have other plans. Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the Senate, is backing two new bills timed to be trumpeted at this week’s annual meeting in Washington of the largest pro-Israel advocacy group, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Mr. McConnell has already passed a measure this year giving local and state governments the authority to break ties with companies that boycott or divest from Israel. The actions are part of a larger political strategy aimed, in part, at showing that Republicans are more willing to directly tackle anti-Semitic hate speech and anti-Israel language than divided Democrats in the lower chamber, Republican aides and operatives said. But hate speech has hardly been a longtime cause célèbre for the Republican Party, whose members have opposed efforts to expand similar protections to victims of discrimination based on gender and sexual orientation." The Republicons invented the Southern Strategy, and now they are trying the Jewish Strategy.
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Post by jdredd on Jul 25, 2019 2:22:06 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2019/07/23/us/politics/house-israel-boycott-bds.html"WASHINGTON — The House, brushing aside Democratic voices of dissent over American policy in the Middle East, on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed a bipartisan resolution condemning the boycott-Israel movement as one that “promotes principles of collective guilt, mass punishment and group isolation, which are destructive of prospects for progress towards peace.” The 398-to-17 vote, with five members voting present, came after a debate that was equally lopsided; no one in either party spoke against the measure. The House’s two most vocal backers of the boycott movement — Representatives Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, freshman Democrats and the first two Muslim women in Congress — did not participate in the floor debate." Well, 17 is a beginning. This is not nearly over, it has just started.
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Post by jdredd on Aug 15, 2019 16:50:08 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2019/08/15/world/middleeast/trump-israel-omar-tlaib.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage"JERUSALEM — Israel on Thursday barred two American Democratic congresswomen who had planned to visit the Israeli-occupied West Bank, hours after President Trump had urged the country to block them. Mr. Trump’s intervention was an extraordinary step to influence an allied nation and punish his political opponents at home. Israel’s decision to bar the two congresswomen, Representatives Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, was widely criticized, including by prominent Israel supporters. The two lawmakers, both freshmen, are the first Muslim women elected to Congress. Both are outspoken adversaries of Mr. Trump and have been vocal in their support of the Palestinians and the boycott-Israel movement." Ha-ha! This is hilarious. For decades, the US has had a bipartisan pro-Israel consensus, but now Isreal has aligned itself with the Republicans and their clown in the WH. Maybe pro-Israel Democrats will start taking another look. Or not.
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Post by jdredd on Aug 21, 2019 1:21:20 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2019/08/20/us/politics/trump-jewish-voters.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage"WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Tuesday that any Jewish person who votes for a Democrat is guilty of ignorance or “great disloyalty,” intensifying his efforts to drive in a partisan wedge over religion and support for Israel even as he appeared to draw on an anti-Semitic trope." "The president’s comments were condemned by diplomats and analysts across the political spectrum. They accused him of endangering bipartisan support for Israel in the United States, the country’s most reliable ally, in his zeal to curry favor with some Jewish voters and tighten his alliance with Mr. Netanyahu." God, I love this President.
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Post by jdredd on Jan 31, 2020 1:09:20 GMT -5
So Trump's "peace" plan for the Isreal problem is to give everything to Israel and nothing to the Palestinians of course. DOA. But they were just going through the motions anyway and everyone knew it.
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Post by jdredd on Feb 7, 2020 16:47:57 GMT -5
www.nationalreview.com/2020/01/the-democrats-civil-war-gets-nasty-in-iowa/?itm_source=parsely-api"Down the stretch in Iowa, a centrist, pro-Israel super-PAC has launched a major ad campaign attacking Senator Bernie Sanders by name, calling attention to his recent heart attack, and questioning his electability. The well-funded group, Democratic Majority for Israel (DMI), was founded last year to counter a trend in which Democrats are increasingly perceived as drifting away from support for the Jewish state. A half-century ago, Democrats seemed like the solidly pro-Israel party while the GOP was divided on the issue. But in recent decades, Republicans have become the lockstep pro-Israel party, while the Democrats are split between centrists who remain broadly supportive of Israel and left-wing activists hostile to its policies and even its existence." This is just a hint of how Sanders will be Corbynized by the Reps if he wins the nomination.
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Post by jdredd on Mar 8, 2021 20:56:54 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2021/03/08/us/cornel-west-leaving-harvard-union.html"Walter Johnson, a colleague in the Department of African and African American Studies, said people were “shocked” and “deeply dismayed.” “He is an intellectual giant and moral polestar, and it is very sad for the university to see him go,” Dr. Johnson said. Dr. West’s dispute over tenure put a new focus on complaints that Black and Latino professors are underrepresented in the ranks of tenured professors, not just at Harvard. It caused enough consternation at Harvard that the university’s president, Lawrence Bacow, told a faculty meeting last week that he was “firmly committed to the success of our Black faculty.” Dr. West said in an interview with The New York Times last week that he did not know why his request to be considered for a tenured post had been rebuffed, but that he thought it could have something to do with his age and his support for the Palestinian cause, which he called a “taboo” issue at Harvard."
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Post by jdredd on Apr 7, 2021 19:41:53 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2021/04/07/world/middleeast/biden-aid-palestinians.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage"WASHINGTON — The Biden administration announced on Wednesday that it would restore hundreds of millions of dollars in American aid to Palestinians, its strongest move yet to reverse President Donald J. Trump’s policy on the protracted Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The package, which gives at least $235 million in assistance to Palestinians, will go to humanitarian, economic, development and security efforts in the region, and is part of the administration’s attempt to rehabilitate U.S. relations with Palestinians, which effectively stopped when Mr. Trump was in office." I guess we know which party is the biggest panderer to Israel. But not by much.
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Post by jdredd on May 20, 2021 13:17:53 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2021/05/19/opinion/israel-democrats-united-states.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage"President Biden has blocked the United Nations Security Council from calling for a cease-fire. He apparently believes that he can accomplish more with private diplomacy than with public rebukes. “Progress occurs in the Middle East when everyone knows there is simply no space between the United States and Israel,” Biden said in 2010." Wow, what a Trump-style claim. So we back Isreal's airstrikes? Fortunately, there are some cracks showing in America's "Israel can do no wrong" attitude.
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Post by jdredd on Sept 24, 2021 23:25:45 GMT -5
What cracks? A few Democrat Congress people try to sabotage the funding for Israel’s Iron Dome and are slapped down by the rest of the Dems.
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Post by jdredd on Oct 2, 2021 0:01:44 GMT -5
Ad at the top of the page in this forum: “Take a stand against Rep. Omar”. And of course give money to AIPAC. But the truth is there can be only one party most pro-Israel, like only one party can be most pro-police or pro-military. Makes me wonder why the Republicans don’t always win. But at least there is a small number of Democrats willing to stand up to the Israel lobby. It’s a start.
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Post by jdredd on Apr 28, 2024 19:36:16 GMT -5
As I think I said before, it would be hilarious if Biden lost because of his support for Israel. Even funnier is that Trump is probably more pro-Israel. And we know why: His evangelical supporters think Israel will bring about the Second Arrival somehow. Supernatural politics.
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