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The congresswomen should have been allowed to go on their trip and our bigoted president’s attacks on them are bigoted. But I still find this on its face to be pretty troubling: forward.com/fast-forward/4…
More on this here: And here: jta.org/2019/08/16/pol…
More on this here: And here: jta.org/2019/08/16/pol…
I have little expertise here, don’t read Arabic and don’t want to over or undersell this. After looking at its website a bit, Miftah appears to be a Palestinian good-gov’t org. that receives funding from Western European governments and has also published virulent anti-Semitism.
It has produced recent reports on tax policy and sexual violence, seems to do a lot of work on women’s political and cultural empowerment, and supports “popular peaceful resistance and peaceful civil disobedience.”
It’s also prmoted some disgusting anti-Semitism, including blood libel (for which it apologized and an actual neo-Nazi tract (later removed). They seem to do a lot that’s not publishing anti-Semitism, but you’d really like to associate with groups that don’t do any.
