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Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) speaking with attendees at the 2019 Young Americans for Liberty Convention in Philadelphia on April 13, 2019. Credit: Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons.

Rep. Massie accused of antisemitism after sharing controversial meme

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An image shared on social media featuring rapper Drake rejecting one idea while embracing another—often used to identify alleged hypocrisy—has generated condemnation across the political spectrum after a Republican legislator used it to claim that Congress...
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.). Source: Flickr.

On Israel’s right to exist, Massie votes ‘no,’ Tlaib ‘present’

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The U.S. House of Representatives voted 412-1, with one voting “present,” on Nov. 28 to reaffirm Israel’s right to exist. “The House of Representatives reaffirms the State of Israel’s right to exist, recognizes that denying Israel’s right...
U.S. President Joe Biden in Tel Aviv on Oct. 18, 2023. Credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90.

Has Biden tipped the Democrats back towards a bipartisan consensus?

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It’s all a matter of perspective. For Israel’s government, the obvious benefits of President Joe Biden’s brief visit to Israel, his fulsome rhetoric of support for the Jewish state and scathing denunciations of Hamas...
The U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. Credit: ItzaVU/Shutterstock.

House bill amasses bipartisan consensus to continue Iran sanctions

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Three measures opposing violence and human-rights abuses perpetrated by the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism passed in the U.S. House of Representatives. On Tuesday, the Combat Rampant Iranian Missile Exports (Fight CRIME) Act (H.R. 3152) received 403...
Seyed Hussein Mousavian discusses “Nuclear Iran: Negotiating a Way Out,” on Feb. 4, 2013. Credit: Chatham House via Wikimedia Commons.

Congressman: ‘Insanity’ to have Iranian propagandist at US military seminar

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Speakers at the 2023 U.S. Strategic Command Deterrence Symposium, which was held Aug. 16-17 in Omaha, Neb., included current and former military leaders, a member of Congress, a governor and a university president. And then...
Iranian newspapers, including the "Tehran Times" (upper left). Credit: Thomas Koch/Shutterstock.

‘Sensitive’ State Dept. document runs in Tehran paper, as Foggy Bottom rebuffs Congress

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House Foreign Affairs Committee leaders have expressed frustration that the U.S. State Department has been stonewalling Congress about details of the June suspension of Robert Malley as special envoy to Iran. Now a newspaper with close ties...
Democratic State Rep. Dr. Shri Thanedar. Credit: Michigan House Democrats Official Photo.

In Israel, House Democrats reaffirm ‘solidarity with the Jewish state’

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Two dozen Democrats from the U.S. House of Representatives—led by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.)—are in Israel for a six-day trip that started earlier this week, sponsored by the American...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hosts U.S. lawmakers in Jerusalem, Aug. 7, 2023. Photo by Haim Tzach/GPO.

Netanyahu meets with 24 Democratic members of Congress

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday welcomed a delegation of 24 Democrats from the U.S. House of Representatives to his Jerusalem office. House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York and previous House Majority...
U.S. Special Envoy for Iran Robert Malley speaks to VOA Persian at the U.S. State Department in Washington, D.C., on March 7, 2021. Credit: VOA Persian via Wikimedia Commons.

US State Department to brief lawmakers on suspension of Iran envoy Malley

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Details remain sketchy, but Robert Malley confirmed at the beginning of the month that the U.S. State Department had suspended him from his role as special envoy for Iran. Malley, who as an undergraduate penned a 1980 Yale...
Former U.S. President Barack Obama, flanked by Vice President Joe Biden, delivers a statement on the Iran nuclear agreement in the East Room of the White House on July 14, 2015. Credit: Official White House Photo by Pete Souza.

US lawmakers: Iran disagreement at root of Biden snub of Netanyahu

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It is a common refrain in U.S. President Joe Biden’s speeches and statements and at State Department press briefings that Israel is threatening its democratic character by seeking to reform its judiciary, which legal...