‘Resistance must not be condemned,’ fundraiser host Melina Abdullah’s group said on Oct. 9 Cori Bush, Jamaal Bowman (Drew Angerer/Getty Images) As Reps. Jamaal Bowman (D., N.Y.) and Cori Bush (D., Mo.) face difficult primary challenges, the progressive lawmakers are teaming up—by holding a swanky joint fundraiser alongside anti-Israel activists who have endorsed Hamas terrorism
‘Big news!’ Pennsylvania congresswoman says of antiracist professor Uju Anya’s promotion to tenured professor Uju Anya (L) and Summer Lee (C) (@UjuAnya/Twitter) Pennsylvania congresswoman Summer Lee, who is facing a primary challenge driven by her hostility toward Israel, praised a Carnegie Mellon University professor who has compared the Jewish state to Nazi Germany. Lee in
The U.S. House of Representatives delivered a blow to Republican speaker Mike Johnson when it voted on Tuesday against impeaching President Joe Biden’s top border official. In a 214-216 vote, the House blocked a committee’s impeachment charges against Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Four Republicans bucked their leadership, joining Democrats in opposing the charges against
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) equated Israel’s actions in Gaza with the “war crimes” committed by Vladimir Putin in Ukraine and slammed pro-Israel lobbying groups for “spending enormous sums of money right now to influence our political system.” The former Democratic presidential candidate also likened Israel’s “terrible human rights” record to the repressive governments of
U.S. media personality Tucker Carlson said on Tuesday he would soon interview Russian president Vladimir Putin and urged Americans to watch the exchanges to learn what lay behind Moscow’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Carlson, in a post from Moscow on X, formerly Twitter, gave no further details on when the interview would take place. He said the
Israel estimates that a fifth of Hamas’s hostages remaining in Gaza have died, the New York Times reported Tuesday. At least 32 of the remaining 136 hostages are dead, the outlet reported, citing four anonymous Israeli military officials. The government has informed families of those whom the military has confirmed to be deceased. Most of
President Joe Biden appeared to forget the name of the Hamas terrorist group on Tuesday while answering a reporter’s question about negotiations over a possible hostage deal between Israel and Hamas. “There is some movement, and I don’t wanna, I don’t wanna, let me be choose my words—there’s some movement,” Biden said. “There’s been a