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The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) on Thursday came out against Israel’s decision to block far-left freshman Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) from visiting the Jewish state over their support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.

“It would show great weakness if Israel allowed Rep. Omar and Rep. Tlaib to visit,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “They hate Israel & all Jewish people, & there is nothing that can be said or done to change their minds.”

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) signed on late last month as a co-sponsor of a resolution introduced by Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) to protect boycotts of Israel — one that compares Israel to Nazi Germany.

Update: Israel officially decided Thursday to bar Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) from entering the country, according to a statement by Tipi Hotovely, the country’s deputy foreign minister.

Proponents of the so-called “two-state solution” are empowering the Palestinians to maintain their rejectionism and violence.

Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) defended her support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS), which is a Palestinian-led campaign promoting boycott against Israel. Tlaib said, “It is criticizing the racist policies of

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) suggested Tuesday that a non-binding resolution opposing boycotts of Israel would “force” critics of the Jewish state to commit acts of terror.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) introduced a resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday that supports the anti-Israel “boycott, divestment, sanctions” (BDS) movement — and which also likens Israel to Nazi Germany.

Johnny Clegg was an anti-apartheid musician who also, quietly, rejected pressure from the South African left to denounce Israel.

The New York Times’ “attempts to demonize Israel” have amplified antisemitism, said Ron Dermer, Israel’s ambassador to the U.S., in an interview published last Tuesday on Mark Levin’s eponymous radio show.

The BDS campaign against Israel shares disturbing connections with, and sympathy for, Palestinian terror — and works to promote its goals.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a stalwart friend of Israel, declared: “If you openly support BDS in Florida, you’re dead, politically.”

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has told a hometown newspaper in Minnesota that she brings “the perspective of a foreigner” to U.S. foreign policy.

NUWEIBA – A dozen photographs have been removed from an exhibition on Israel in Mexico City Metro on the grounds of complaints filed by the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against the Jewish state, saying the images, which included scenes from the Golan Heights and eastern Jerusalem, depicted territories of “brutal military occupation.”

Jewish Americans are gathering at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday to launch #JEXIT, an effort to encourage other Jewish voters to leave the Democrat Party in the wake of a string of anti-semitic remarks from some lawmakers in recent months and their support for anti-Israel policies.

In under a week, the U.S. has been subjected to three major anti-Jewish events that flow from three different poisonous wells.

The New York Times — as an institution that propagates anti-Jewish messages, narratives, and demonizations — is deeply tied to the rise in white supremacist violence against Jews.

Long ago, Israelis decided not to let their fate or well-being be determined by their enemies — or their own failures.

Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens were speaking at a Louisiana State University event on Wednesday when a protester jumped on stage and proceeded to shout obscenities, while another protester in the audience shouted “death to white nationalism” at the two conservative pundits, one of whom is black.

Ben Rhodes, a former national security aide to President Barack Obama, told the New York Times this week that the “donor class” had prevented Obama from taking more anti-Israel steps than the administration had wanted to take.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) attacked Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Tuesday after the latter criticized the anti-Israel “boycott, divestment, sanctions” (BDS) movement in a speech to a pro-Israel group in Washington, DC.

Joe Lieberman said Democrats “failed a moral test” on antisemitism in their response to Ilhan Omar’s comments about Israel.

The Democratic Party has made clear that antisemitism’s introduction into political discourse by a member of Congress incurs no cost and perhaps yields rewards.

A pro-Palestinian effort to cancel a California college’s study abroad program with the University of Haifa in Israel is publicizing that Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) has joined the cause, according to media reports.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) doubled down Sunday on her comment last week accusing pro-Israel Americans of “allegiance to a foreign country,” repeating that view on Twitter and defying calls from fellow Democrats to apologize.

Students at Syracuse University can intern with the Syracuse Peace Council, an anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) group, to earn credits that can count toward a degree at the university.

Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), both facing accusations of antisemitism, have found support from IfNotNow, a radical left-wing anti-Israel organization on the fringe of the Jewish community.

The Republican bill against antisemitism also opposed “all attempts to delegitimize and deny Israel’s right to exist,” as well as to boycott Israel.

President Donald Trump weighed in again Tuesday on the controversy surrounding antisemitic remarks by Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), who apologized Monday at the behest of Democratic leaders but kept her committee posts.

Six of the seven Democratic Party presidential candidates in the U.S. Senate voted against a pro-Israel bill this week that would make it easier for states to oppose the “boycott, divestment, sanctions” (BDS) movement.

Actress Roseanne Barr slammed the “repulsive” Natalie Portman in an interview ahead of a trip to Jerusalem this month, where Barr will address the Israeli parliament and campaign against the boycott, divest, and sanctions (BDS) movement against the Jewish state.

Leader McCarthy condemned Ilhan Omar’s appointment: “Anti-Semitism has no place in Congress and certainly not on the House Foreign Affairs Committee.”

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who likes to refer to himself as the “guardian” of Israel, is whipping against a pro-Israel bill in the U.S. Senate — as a protest against the ongoing partial government shutdown.

Newly-installed Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) is being criticized for an antisemitic tweet accusing pro-Israel Americans of dual loyalty.

Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), the likely next Speaker of the House, is trying to reassure Jewish groups after several newly-elected Democrats have vowed openly to support “boycott, divestment, and sanctions” (BDS) against Israel.

Today, antisemitism is appearing in the mainstream in ways that, only a few years ago, would have seemed impossible or at least highly unlikely.