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AIPAC is a “hate group,” says
congresswoman
By Michael F. Brown
Betty
McCollum, a tenacious advocate
for the rights of Palestinian
children, vigorously pushed back
Wednesday against an attack ad
by AIPAC.
Craig Lassig
ZUMA Press
February 15, 2020 "Information
Clearing House" -
Betty McCollum this week
issued one of the hardest hitting criticisms of
AIPAC from a sitting member of Congress in recent
memory, perhaps ever.
Her statement provided the
extraordinary sight of a US elected representative
telling the anti-Palestinian organization enough is
enough. She pushed back – and hard.
McCollum denounced as “hate speech” the recent
AIPAC Facebook ads that she said are “weaponizing
anti-Semitism to incite followers by attacking me,
my colleagues, and my work promoting human rights
for Palestinian children detained in Israeli
military prisons.”
Terming the organization a “hate group,” she
declared that “the struggle to advance human rights
and promote human dignity inevitably results in
confronting entrenched forces determined to
dehumanize, debase and demonize individuals or
entire populations to maintain dominance and an
unjust status quo.”
McCollum – who has
introduced legislation aimed at preventing US
tax dollars from being used by Israel to harm
Palestinian children – has not been reticent in
criticizing discriminatory Israeli law previously.
In 2018 she
termed the Israeli nation-state law “apartheid.”
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