(Free Beacon) Democratic Rep. Madeleine Dean (Pa.) met with the pro-Hamas advocacy group, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, before announcing her boycott of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s joint address to Congress, she said Wednesday.
In an interview on CNN, Dean said she met with Palestinian groups and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) regarding Netanyahu’s address, scheduled for 2 p.m. on Wednesday. “They are baffled by Mr. Netanyahu’s attendance today,” she said. “How could he in the face of the inhumanity that is going on in Gaza and in the West Bank, how could he be here in this politically fraught moment?”
CAIR appeared to take credit for Dean’s decision, writing after the meeting that Dean “meets with CAIR representatives and says she will boycott Netanyahu’s address to Congress.”
