Page 70 - Apac News Today

And elizabeth warren echoed that sent tall branding criticism of israel as automaticmy anti-semitic has a chilling effect on public discourse. eli, is this a disagreement thats going to pass? is it an opportunity, kind of a teaching moment which is what we heard from speaker pelosi? or could this build real tensions within the party that could, frankly, have an impact on unity when theyre facing legislative issues going forward? >> well, what we heard from the statements in the leading contender...

Is for the sake of the democratic party. i think theyre going to look at this particular moment, i think everything said about the comments about donald trump and plenty of other things is absolutely correct, but thats not the particular issue. theyre going to look at this issue and theyre going to say, you know, was the democratic party resolute in saying this has no place? because if they dont, then youll see the democratic party go the way of the british labor party. >> i have to jump in, bel...

Discuss being its been very disheartening to watch it unfold on twitter and now being part of it. i will say i want to clarify as a jew, i take what she says as painful and insulting. she used anti-semitic tropes. i watched people say she didnt and i think theyre objectively wrong. she used word and phrases that have commonly been used to attack jewish people. the issue is incredibly complex. shes using valid points that the influence that apac has on politics and whether or not were in a produc...

Allegiance to a foreign country. the resolution does not mention open -- omar by name. peter, what do you think? i was talking to the chairman of the foreign relations committee, who is intimately involved with this. hes very, very careful to say that maybe what was said was anti-semitic but not to say that congresswoman omar was an anti-semite. >> yeah. my view is that ilhan omar made a mistake by diverting a conversation that really needs to happen into a conversation that really doesnt need t...

In human rights and human equality. her fundamental point was just as we care about the rights and suffering of jews, we should also care about the rights of suffering of palestinians. and thats the debate shes trying to create here. why is it considered okay in washington to support israeli policies that deny the most basic of human rights to palestinians? that is what makes her so fundamentally different than steve king, who is basically a guy for his entire career has suggested that non-white...

Committee assignments just like steve king. lets debate it. peter and aim ea are here. thanks to both of you. peter, you asked for the right to take care of the bigoted comments from steve king. they removed him from committee. should the democrats do the same? >> no, i dont think theres any equivalence at all. i think she made mistake by talking about groups as pushing allegiance to a foreign country. i know friends of mine in apac who have their own reason for pursuing the policies they pursue...

Shes trying to create. why is it considered okay in washington to support israeli policy it deny them basic human rights. steve king is becausically a guy whose entire career has suggested that not as good as white christians. >> i invited the congresswoman on and i invited him too. but since then he hasnt accepted -- where is the mistake? >> her mistake -- she has every right to criticize apac. theyre a organization that essentially sunorts israeli government policy no matter what they are and ...

Anti-semitism as soon as wednesday after omar insinuated last week that pro-israel groups are pushing allegiance to a foreign country. republicans, however, say talk is not enough. shes got to be roved from committee assignments just like steve king. lets debate it. peter beinart and amy kremer are here. thanks to both of you. peter, you asked for the right to take care of the bigoted comments from steve king. they did it. they removed him from committees. should the democrats do the same? >> no...

This further. michelle, good to see you again, to alexandria ocasio-cortez comments, i dont think we should reserve our criticism because we dont criticize other things. we want a world in which people arent racist or denigrating in any form. there is an issue here in that ilhan omar has not approached this in a manner that has seemed to some people very sophisticated. but she has an underlying criticism of apac and the government of israel. and i think people are trying to figure out how you na...

>> i think it is completely valid to say that apac, i dont think apac is really in sync with the opinion of american injury never mind the country. i think its perfectly legitimate apac targeted her for her defeat and targeted her for her defeat before these comments, because it was anything right about her boycott and divestment sanctions movement. it was angry about her criticism of israel, period. so to say that apac kind of has a sin serious effect on american debate about israel that it use...