AIPAC applauds lawmakers for backing full US aid to Israel, without conditions
A letter urging an unconditional aid came after handful of prominent Democratic Party lawmakers spoke at a virtual national conference of the left-wing, pro-Israel group J Street over the weekend.
“As the United States meets pressing global challenges, we strongly believe that robust U.S. foreign assistance is vital to ensuring our national security interests abroad,” the letter stated.
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The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the largest pro-Israel advocacy group in the U.S., applauded the overwhelming majority of members of the House of Representatives on Thursday who signed a letter urging U.S. aid to Israel to be fully funded in the federal budget without condition, contradicting a handful of prominent Democratic Party lawmakers who spoke at a virtual national conference of the left-wing, pro-Israel group J Street over the weekend.
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Lawmakers must act to cut U.S. ties to forced labor and expedite asylum for Uyghur refugees, and Washington should push the global community to end what it has designated a genocide in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), witnesses told a Congressional hearing Thursday.
Speaking at a virtual hearing on “The Atrocities Against Uyghurs and Other Minorities in Xinjiang” at the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs, Nury Turkel, chairman of the board of the Washington-based Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) advocacy group, denounced what he called a “lackluster international response” to ongoing rights abuses in the XUAR.
Colombia’s relationship with the United States is hitting its lowest point in decades as the country’s government faces criticism over its militarized response to massive street protests. The wave of protests risks destabilizing one of Latin America s most functional democracies and the United States s closest ally in the region. While international organizations like the United Nations and the European Union have accused Colombian forces of police brutality in attempting to quell the protests, the Biden administration is taking a more measured approach. Police, whether in the United States or Colombia, need to engage by certain rules and respect fundamental freedoms, and that s not a critique, said Juan González, National Security Council director for the Western Hemisphere.
6 May 2021
A representative from Nike declined an invitation to testify Thursday at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing that discussed China’s human rights abuses of its minority Muslim Uyghur population and American corporations that could be manufacturing products made with Uyghur slave labor in Xinjiang Province, according to committee members.
Rep. Andy Barr (R-KY) slammed Nike’s denial of the invitation, given its suspected manufacturing of products made with Uyghur slave labor and the company’s woke activism, such as cancellation of its Betsy Ross flag sneaker, after former NFL player Colin Kaepernick said they were offensive.
“It is shocking and appalling that Nike canceled Betsy Ross’s American flag sneaker at the same time they were exploiting the Chinese Communist Party’s Uyghur slave labor in the Xinjiang Province,” Barr said in a statement to Breitbart News.
The current political situation in Haiti has effectively paralyzed the country and with, and a president focused on forging ahead with his plans for a constitutional reform and elections no easy solution appears in sight. Several US congressmen led the Representative Gregory Meeks, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Hakeem Jeffries, chairman of the House Democratic Caucus area calling for a review of US policy towards Haiti, warning the Biden Administration that current US policy position risks exacerbating the country’s cycle of political instability and violence. In a letter addressed to Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, the lawmakers contend that US insistence on elections at all costs can be counterproductive, because while elections are needed to restore democratic order in Haiti in the long run, any elections held under the current administration will not be free, fair or credible. President Jovenel Moïse has ruled the country without a parliament for ov