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Ocasia Cortez, Ilhan Omar & Rashida Tlaib on Israel-Palestine, BDS & a one state solution?

2,256 views · Published 18 December 2018 · 37:37 · Indexed 10 November 2026

Channel: MintPress News · 2018 · News & Politics

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Where do Alexandria Ocasia Cortez, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib stand on Israel-Palestine, BDS & a one/two state solution? 

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Some background:

As a result of the midterm election, four recently elected women affiliated with the democratic-socialist PAC Justice Democrats will soon be striding through Capitol Hill as full-fledged members of Congress. These four women – Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley – have all been touted as “progressive” game-changers for having avoided corporate money during their primaries and for supporting policies like Medicare-for-all and abolishing ICE, among others.

Yet, while these soon-to-be congresswomen support many of the same policies, they exhibit considerable differences when it comes to Palestine, ranging from deepening their pro-Palestine stances, to flip-flopping on it, to remaining largely silent on an issue of great importance to many Americans and others the world over.

Before their primary elections, Tlaib, Omar, and Ocasio-Cortez all criticized Israel in some way, with some commentators suggesting that Tlaib – who is the daughter of Palestinian immigrants – went the farthest by promoting a one-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict. However, Tlaib later pulled away from those comments and was accused of “flip-flopping” after subsequently stating that she would support a two-state solution “if it was something of possibility.” Pressley, the outlier on this issue among Justice Democrat-supported candidates, stayed largely silent about both Israel and Palestine despite the fact that the Justice Democrats openly promote an arms embargo on Israel.

Read more: https://www.mintpressnews.com/on-israel-palestine-four-newly-elected-progressives-vary-in-willingness-to-walk-the-walk/252760/

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