Israel practices ‘apartheid’ — Rep. Betty McCollum

From time to time, the Palestine Center distributes articles it believes will enhance understanding of the Palestinian political reality. The following article was published by Phil Weiss and Annie Robbins in the Mondoweiss on October 2, 2018

 

“The highlight of the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights conference that concluded Sunday in St. Paul was a speech by U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum (D-MN) that was that very rare and brave thing in mainstream US politics: an unapologetic endorsement of Palestinian human rights.

McCollum denounced Israel’s ‘brutal’ ‘cruel’ policy of detaining and torturing children, which she has sought to sanction through groundbreaking legislation that would end U.S. aid that supports those practices. She said that it is not anti-Semitic to criticize Israel: ‘why can’t I hold a foreign government accountable for how they abuse an entire population of people under their control?'”

 

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