Amid Israel’s offensive in south Lebanon, Nasser Beydoun — like many Arab Americans who hail from the area — would look at satellite images of his hometown of Bint Jbeil to see if his family house is still standing. Israel has been wiping out entire towns on the Lebanese side of the border as part of a deliberate policy that human rights advocates say aims to make the region uninhabitable.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) issued a stark warning this week about a congressional measure that would merge the U.S. and Israel’s military technology industrial complexes, saying that it represents an “existential threat” to U.S. democracy. The provision — called the “U.S.-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative,” or Section 219 — is included in the 2027 National…
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Over 100 Democrats voted for a House measure to cut $3.3 billion in military funding for Israel on Wednesday, marking a shift within the party even as the amendment still overwhelmingly failed to pass. The amendment, introduced by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky), failed 104 to 314. The legislation would have stripped the 2027 State Department and national security funding bill of a provision…
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Progressive politicians and advocates have reignited calls for the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after an ICE agent shot and killed a man in Houston, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, on Tuesday. Politicians like New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Representatives Rashida Tlaib (D-Michigan) and Delia C. Ramirez (D-Illinois) called to abolish the agency after Salgado Araujo’s…
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Democrats are reportedly “not happy” that Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D) is pushing for a vote on a war powers resolution to limit U.S. support for Israel’s war on Lebanon, according to an Axios report on Wednesday. The resolution, which is likely to face a vote on Thursday in the House, calls for President Donald Trump to end all U.S. participation in Israeli military operations in Lebanon…
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With two activists from the latest Gaza flotilla still being detained by Israel, Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Michigan) and other House Democrats are demanding that the Trump administration rescind its “libelous falsehoods” about the humanitarian effort and speak out against the Israeli government for its alleged abuses against its participants. Israel’s attacks on and seizures of the flotilla ships…
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