Tags: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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Nowhere left to live, nowhere left to bury the dead – Day 319

“They were trying to exterminate us”: Palestinian children in Gaza tortured by Israeli military; Israeli envoy calls for UN building in Jerusalem to be ‘erased from earth’; No space in Gaza “safe zones” for the living; No space left for the dead: Gaza’s cemeteries overflow; Fleeing Palestinians say death would be more merciful; ‘Torture by Electrocution’ – Israel Releases 25 Detainees from Gaza; Barack Obama makes no mention of Gaza war in DNC speech; more

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House Dems remove B in extra funding for Israel’s Iron Dome from budget bill

Republican Congress members flip out over the removal of an extra $1 billion gift to Israel on a budget bill (that they weren’t going to vote for anyway). Activists for justice for Palestinians hail the event as “an unprecedented moment for Palestinian rights.”

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Election of 3 Israel critics to Congress is historic, but many new Dems are committed to Israel

The good news: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib are Israel-criticizing congressional newcomers. The bad news: other Dem midterm winners join the army of Israel supporters – having vowed to keep America’s commitment to Israel “as fixed and as permanent as the sky” and “make sure that we are supporting Israel into the next generation.” In addition, some key leadership positions will be filled by pro-Israel Jews. Norman Finkelstein sees this as a sign of “a growing divide between US Jews and Israeli Jews.”

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NYT: A New Wave of Democrats Tests the Party’s Blanket Support for Israel

New York Times reports that a cluster of activist Democrats — most of them young, most of them cruising toward House seats this fall — has dared to breach what has been an almost inviolable orthodoxy in both political parties, strong support for Israel, raising the specter of a crack in the Democratic Party that Republicans could use to attract Jewish supporters.

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