(Hill) Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and fellow committee members Sens. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) asked acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf for further details on the process by which a Saudi national […]
(Hill) A coalition of Muslim and human rights organizations called on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to cancel its plans to award Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi its Global Goalkeeper Award, citing Modi’s controversial revocation of the Kashmir region’s special status. In […]
(Hill) Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on Sunday responded to a family member of a 9/11 victim who called her out on the anniversary of the attacks, saying she intended to highlight civil rights violations. “9/11 was an attack on all Americans. It was an […]
(Hill) Democratic presidential contenders and others spoke out against reports during the weekend that the Trump administration will seek to cut refugee admissions to zero next year. While administration officials have not yet developed a formal recommendation, the administration previously set the […]
(Hill) Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday criticized a New York Times editor’s tweet suggesting Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) did not represent the Midwest. Jonathan Weisman, deputy Washington editor of the New York Times, made the comments in response […]
(Hill) The New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) filed a discrimination complaint with New York City’s Human Rights Commission on Tuesday, alleging religious discrimination against a Muslim woman by Citibank. The complaint, filed Tuesday, claims the bank would […]
(Hill) Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) took aim at a bill in the House Foreign Affairs Committee condemning the anti-Israel boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement, calling it “unconstitutional.” The measure, H.R. 246, aims “to silence opposition of Israel’s blatantly racist policies that […]
(Hill) Activist Angela Davis and Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) joined numerous other black women activists and members of Congress in a rally Tuesday to support Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.). Davis and Barbara Ransby, a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and adviser […]
(Hill) Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on Tuesday blasted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for devoting more time to her than to anti-Semitic violence in his speech to a pro-Israel conference. Omar has been a frequent target at the American Israel Public Affairs […]
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