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U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren speaking in Las Vegas in 2019. (Photo: Gage Skidmore)

At a town hall in Natick, Massachusetts this week Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) told a group of supporters that she supported conditioning aid to Israel, but couldn’t remember whether she voted in favor of the United States’s $38 billion military aid deal with the country.

In fact, she cosponsored a 2018 bill that aimed to enshrine the agreement.

Civic leader Ruth Messinger says that the large sums of “secret” money being spent by AIPAC-aligned superpacs on congressional races to defeat progressives who are critical of Israel such as Donna Edwards and Yuh-Line Niou makes Americans think “less well of Jews.” While digital media expert Mik Moore says the money has “perverted” the political process and punished the “boldest” progressives.

Mohammed Amer, star of the new Netflix show "Mo." (Photo: Netflix)

The new Netflix series “Mo” is a fresh, complex, politically nuanced depiction of the Palestinian refugee experience in the US.

Former Israeli negotiator Daniel Levy told the U.N. Security Council this week that the two-state solution is over. “75 years ago, this United Nations offered partition as the political paradigm for the Holy Land. Today that land is de facto united under one dominion.” And it’s apartheid. And influential Jewish organizations who denounce such allegations as antisemitic are a “threat to freedom,” Peter Beinart writes in the New York Times.