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Op-Eds & Analysis
If you want to understand the divide inside the congressional Democratic Party on Israel, consider two events from earlier this week.
on December 6, 2018
News Roundup
Rashida Tlaib, a Democratic representative-elect from Michigan and one of the first Muslim women elected to Congress, will lead a delegation to Palestine in 2019 instead of participating in a sponsored trip to Israel that is traditionally offered to newly-elected members of Congress, The Intercept reported.
on December 6, 2018
News Roundup
Michigan’s Rashida Tlaib, the first Palestinian-American woman elected to Congress, won’t attend an annual trip to Israel sponsored by pro-Israel lobbying group American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
on December 4, 2018
Op-Eds & Analysis
Earlier this summer, John Cheney-Lippold, an associate professor at the University of Michigan, stoked public controversy when he declined to write a letter of recommendation for a student seeking to study in Israel.
on October 29, 2018
News & Analysis
Mikkel Jordahl, alawyer in Sedona, Ariz., can now choose to buy a different brand of printers. No longer must he stick with Hewlett-Packard technology for fear of losing his contract with the state. For 12 years, he has provided legal advice to inmates in the Coconino County Detention Facility.
on October 8, 2018
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Elected officials are targeting your free speech rights because they want to shield a foreign government from criticism.
on September 18, 2018
Op-Eds & Analysis
As protests against Israel and the U.S. government’s alliance with it have roiled college campuses across the country — with demonstrations in recent years shutting down speeches by pro-Israel speakers from the University of Minnesota to San Francisco State University — a few questions have repeatedly come up.
on September 14, 2018
News Roundup
The Trump administration is changing how the Education Department investigates allegations of discrimination against Jewish students, backing an approach that is favored by pro-Israel groups but that critics worry will stifle free speech on campus.
on September 14, 2018
News Roundup
The new head of civil rights at the Education Department has reopened a seven-year-old case brought by a Zionist group against Rutgers University, saying the Obama administration, in closing the case, ignored evidence that suggested the school allowed a hostile environment for Jewish students.
on September 14, 2018