Published date: 5 February 2021 22:03 UTC | Last update: 1 month 1 week ago
Proverbially, crossing the aisle in American politics means reaching out to cooperate with the opposite political party. On Wednesday, top Democrat Steny Hoyer literally crossed the aisle to the Republican side on the House floor, but not to extend a hand of friendship.
He was carrying an oversized poster featuring a Facebook post by Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, showing her carrying a rifle, next to photoshopped photos of Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, three progressive House members. They re not the Squad, Hoyer told the Republicans of the congresswomen targeted by Greene s post. They re Ilhan. They re Alexandria. They re Rashida. They are people. They are our colleagues.
Joe Biden speaking with attendees at the 2019 Iowa Federation of Labor Convention (Photo: Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia)
Earlier this week, a U.S. State Department official declared that the Biden administration “embraces and champions” the controversial International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism. That definition notably defines certain criticisms of Israel as antisemitic.
Addressing an Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) conference on combating antisemitism, US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Kara McDonald stated:
We must educate ourselves and our communities to recognize anti-Semitism in its many forms, so that we can call hate by its proper name and take effective action. That is why the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of anti-Semitism, with its real-world examples, is such an invaluable tool. As prior U.S. Administrations of both political stripes have done, the
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7-Year-Old Raises $22,000 for Local Children’s Hospital Making Bracelets
One Chicago seven-year-old is on her way to becoming one of the world’s youngest entrepreneurs. Like many girls her age, Hayley Orlinsky has a knack for making bracelets, and she’s using her skills to raise thousands of dollars for Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital, a nationally ranked non-profit pediatric hospital, the very same facility where she was treated when she was first born.
It’s her way of giving back to the many brave men and women fighting to keep her community safe.
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