House Passes Resolution Saying Israel Isn’t A Racist Country
The U.S. House of Representatives said Tuesday it believes Israel is neither a racist nor an apartheid state and that the United States will always be a staunch partner of the country, and it went so far as to reject antisemitism and xenophobia.A resolution stating those precepts was unsurprisingly and overwhelmingly adopted on a bipartisan basis on a 412 to 9 vote that had more to do with the partisan jockeying for position than any actual concern over Israel. On the House floor, Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), who was one of the nine votes, all from Democrats, against the resolution and the only Palestinian American in Congress, called it an effort at “policing the words of women of color.”Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog, is set to speak Wednesday before a joint session of Congress, and ...