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Local paper bursts lies about Haitian immigrants – Who’s listening?

“Netanyahu is a war criminal committing genocide against the Palestinian people,” Tlaib said in a statement. “It is utterly disgraceful that leaders from both parties have invited him to address Congress."

Breakthroughs and roadblocks

Speaking out against an ongoing, attempted genocide is not a crime, nor is it antisemitic.

The House overwhelmingly passed a resolution declaring Israel is "not a racist or apartheid state." The final vote was 412-9. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, the only Palestinian member of Congress, declared: “Congress supported South African apartheid...”

The Michigan Democrat joined rights groups in a Senate committee room to mark the ethnic cleansing of more than 750,000 Palestinians during the founding of modern Israel.

Journalists pay the price when they report the truth

The speed with which key House Dems have lined up against Rep Tlaib – over a misrepresented comment challenging progressives-except-on-Palestine – exemplifies both Dems’ commitment to Israeli impunity & their deep undercurrent of anti-Palestinianism.

Mass media as stepping stone—three talking heads who lie their way to political dominance

If expelling people because they are different does indeed constitute “anti-semitism,” then the Nakba — in which roughly 750,000 Palestinians were either expelled from their homes by Israeli forces or fled constitutes a vast “antisemitic” atrocity.