U.S. Politics
The Durham City Council voted in April 2018 to ban its police from engaging in international exchanges, where officers could receive “military-style training” in foreign countries.
One ad had a collage featuring Reps. Betty McCollum (D-Minn.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), saying, “The radicals in the Democratic Party are pushing their anti-Semitic and anti-Israel policies down the throats of the American people.”
Amid claims on the right that the social-media giant has been targeting right-wing accounts, Israel’s premier calls Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg to ask that he treat all parties equally ahead of the March 2 elections.
“I see everything through the lens of my Jewish upbringing, my Jewish values,” says the Illinois congressman.
After realizing that the far-right party cannot be convinced not to run in the March 2 elections, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his advisers decide to try to push it over the voting threshold.
“We offer our unequivocal apology to the overwhelming majority of Democrats in Congress who are rightfully offended by the inaccurate assertion that the poorly worded, inflammatory advertisement implied,” said AIPAC in a statement that it shared on Twitter on Saturday.
“If Israel’s government continues with steps to annex the West Bank, the U.S. should make clear that none of our aid should be used to support annexation,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) told “The New York Times” in a recent survey of candidates’ policy positions.
When asked if he would have ordered the strike on Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg said “it depends on the circumstances. It depends if there was an alternative, and it depends on what the different effects would be.”
Community Security Trust identified 224 incidents as “Labour Party-related” and 126 as far-right.
The congressional members said the proposal will push the two sides towards additional conflict.
Jamaal Bowman, a progressive Democrat running to unseat incumbent Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) in New York’s 16th Congressional District, said he was “grateful to be endorsed by” and “incredibly proud to work with the Jewish Vote to take on anti-Semitism.”
“They should be negotiating what constitutes the capital. That’s really my point; that’s what the parties should decide,” said Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.),
