Ayanna Pressley: Where She Stands on Israel

Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) used a House floor speech to frame U.S. aid to Israel as funding apartheid.

On the record

• May 13, 2021 — In a House floor speech asked whether U.S. taxpayer dollars should “create conditions for justice, healing and repair, or… conditions for oppression and apartheid?” [Pressley House statement] [Boston Globe]

Where Galil stands

Our opinion: From the floor of Congress, she cast the one democracy in the Middle East as an apartheid project. We don’t stand with her on this.

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