July 31st, 20260About one week before Michigan’s Aug. 4 primary election, the two Democratic candidates for the U.S. Senate, U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens and Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, faced off Monday night in their second and final televised debate, sharply contrasting their positions on Israel, immigration enforcement, health care, corporate influence and...
July 31st, 20260Evidence keeps piling up that the bipartisan consensus on U.S. support for Israel is dead. Signs appear almost daily that Israeli behavior and the pro-Israel lobby’s heavy-handed tactics for browbeating elected officials into unquestioning support for Israel are being rejected by both Democratic voters and elected officials. Events...
July 24th, 20260SOUTHFIELD — The campaign of Democratic congressional candidate Don Ufford has launched a sharp attack on its chief rival in Michigan's 11th Congressional District primary, State Sen. Jeremy Moss, accusing him of putting support for Israel ahead of local concerns and refusing to participate in a public debate before the Aug. 4 primary...
July 24th, 20260Two major stories regarding the United States and Israel in recent days represent profound watershed moments in the history of the relationship between both countries.
The first incident occurred on July 8 when U.S. Congressman Ro Khanna (D-CA) and his delegation were detained by armed, illegal Israeli settlers in the occupied West...
July 17th, 20260Watching elements of the Democratic Party establishment respond to insurgencies is fascinating.
After Senator Bernie Sanders won several early contests in the 2020 presidential nominating process, the establishment panicked. In 2016, Sanders had almost beaten their favorite, Hillary Clinton, before they put their thumb on the scale,...
July 10th, 20260GRAND RAPIDS — Accusations of political corruption, corporate influence and loyalty to special interests dominated the only televised debate Tuesday night between Democratic U.S. Senate candidates U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens and Dr. Abdul El-Sayed ahead of Michigan's Aug. 4 primary election.
Hosted by WOOD-TV 8, the ABC affiliate in Grand...
May 15th, 20260WASHINGTON, D.C. — Amid growing internal divisions over U.S. policy toward Israel, Democratic primary elections in Michigan and across the United States are witnessing escalating political debate over the role of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, commonly known as AIPAC, in financing campaigns for candidates supportive of...
May 15th, 20260Recent polls of U.S. voters demonstrate a steep decline in overall support for Israel. For example, in February, when Gallup asked with whom they most sympathized, 41 percent of respondents said Palestinians, while only 36 percent named Israel. This markedly contrasts with results to Gallup’s same question in 2023 when 54 percent of...
May 15th, 20260DETROIT — Amid an increasingly fierce Democratic primary battle for Michigan’s open U.S. Senate seat, U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens received more than $5 million in mysterious outside support last week aimed at boosting her standing against her Democratic rivals Abdul El-Sayed and State Senator Mallory McMorrow less than three months...
April 24th, 20260DETROIT – With record participation exceeding 7,250 delegates from across Michigan and an unprecedented Arab American presence, the Michigan Democratic Party selected its nominees for several statewide races during its convention held Sunday, April 19, in Detroit.
The outcome of the convention — both in the candidates chosen and the...
March 27th, 20260INKSTER — earlier this month Inkster Mayor Byron Nolen joined a growing list of Democratic candidates seeking to challenge incumbent U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib in Michigan’s 12th Congressional District.
Unlike the previous election cycle in 2024, Tlaib, who is of Palestinian descent, will be required this year to compete in the...
September 19th, 20250What to do or say about Israel’s war on Gaza has establishment Democratic consultants and the elected officials for whom they work in a tizzy.
One recent news account reported that Senate and House Democratic leaders are worried about the “Mamdani effect” — that a Zohran Mamdani win in the 2025 New York City mayor’s race...
August 1st, 20250Amid reports that hundreds of Palestinians have died from malnutrition in the besieged Gaza Strip since May, a group of prominent Jewish Democratic lawmakers — including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (New York) and Senator Adam Schiff (California) — is spearheading efforts to pressure President Trump’s administration to...
January 5th, 20240By Judge Mark Plawecki
Michigan Democratic U.S Senate candidate Hill Harper has claimed that he was offered $20 million by an American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) member to drop out of said race and run instead against U.S Representative Rashida Tlaib, the only Palestinian American in Congress. Condor has never met nor,...
December 1st, 20230Nasser Beydoun, a Dearborn resident and a Democrat seeking the U.S. Senate seat of retiring Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), said he was offered campaign contributions of $20 million to quit the senate race and run against Democratic U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Dearborn) in the 2024 Democratic primary.
Beydoun, a well known businessman...
November 24th, 20230Democratic U.S. senate candidate Hill Harper said he rejected a $20 million offer in campaign contributions from a Michigan businessman to pull out of the senate race and run against U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Detroit) in 2024.
According to Harper, he declined the offer from the alleged donor, Linden Nelson, which would have split the...
August 3rd, 20220DETROIT — Residents in Dearborn, Southfield, Livonia, Detroit and more are now closer to being represented by a storied member of the so-called "Squad" in the U.S House.
With the results of Tuesday’s primary election trickling in slowly throughout the night, District 12 candidate Rashida Tlaib, the incumbent in the race, cemented...
July 1st, 20220With primary races for Congressional seats heating up in Metro Detroit, some candidates have seen now unprecedented amounts of outside campaign funds pumped into their coffers.
Most notably, those funds, raised by pro-Israeli occupation and pro-big business entities, have been directed to mainstream, pro-Israel Democrats in order...
June 5th, 20220A new political action committee, raising funds from wealthy, pro-Israeli occupation groups and individuals, is mounting attacks against U.S. Rep. Rashida Talib (D-Detroit), in her bid to represent the newly formed 12th District.
Urban Empowerment Action is planning to spend upwards of $1 million in campaign funds on one of Tlaib’s...
October 7th, 20210There is an unmistakable shift in American politics regarding Palestine and Israel, a change that is inspired by the way in which many Americans, especially the youth, view the Palestinian struggle and the Israeli occupation. While this shift is yet to translate into tangibly diminishing Israel’s stronghold over the U.S. Congress, it...
August 12th, 20210WASHINGTON, D.C. — The American Zionist lobby AIPAC recently took out a paid advertisement on Facebook displaying a darkened image of U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) with text reading “For Ilhan Omar, there is no difference between America and the Taliban, between Israel and Hamas, between democracies and terrorism.”
The...
August 3rd, 20200DETROIT — In the congressional race between popular Detroit congresswoman Rashida Tlaib and her Democratic primary opponent, Brenda Jones, powerful interests have backed Jones' campaign, records reveal.
Representing one of these interests is an influx of supporters of Indian nationalist Prime Minister, and friend of President...
July 19th, 20200While the U.S. administration of President Trump remains adamant in its support for Israel, the traditional Democratic leadership continues to employ underhanded language, the kind of “strategic ambiguity” that offers full support to Israel and nothing but lip service to Palestine and peace.
Trump’s policies on Israel and...
May 8th, 20202This week, the House Foreign Affairs Committee, chaired by Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), sent a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, urging him to increase "diplomatic action by the United States to renew the expiring United Nations arms embargo against Iran and United Nations travel restrictions on those Iranian individuals involved...
May 6th, 20201WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a disappointing and surprising move, U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has signed her name to a letter backed by the Israeli lobby AIPAC that demands an extension of the U.N.’s arms embargo on Iran.
Omar has joined 391 members of the House in signing the letter, which effectively bolsters the Trump...
June 27th, 20190Washington – The American Israel Public Affairs (AIPAC) spends millions in all-expense paid trips for members of the U.S. House of Representatives to travel to Israel.
A recent analysis conducted by Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy (IRmep) looked at grant travel filings from the U.S. House of Representative to track...
April 2nd, 20190What happened to Congresswoman Ilhan Omar was troubling. On the one hand, because she dared to challenge the way supporters of Israel have worked to silence debate on U.S. policy toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, she became a victim of incitement and the target of legislation meant to shame her. At the same time, however, the...
March 9th, 20190On Thursday, the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a resolution by a vote of 407-to-23 to condemn both anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim hatred, among other forms of bigotry, including those of White Supremacists, a development Democratic U.S. Reps Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Andre Carson of...
