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News & Comment As AIPAC Spends Millions to Oust Him, Rep. Massie Unveils Bill Requiring Pro-Israel Lobby to Register as Foreign Agent S. Prager - Common Dreams As the Israel lobby attempts to end his political career, the Republican Rep. Thomas Massie has introduced a bill that would require lobbyists working for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, commonly known as AIPAC, to register as foreign agents … Massie has established himself as the leading Republican critic of President Donald Trump in Congress, agitating for transparency from the DOJ on the Jeffrey Epstein files, and stridently opposing increased military spending and the president’s aggressive overseas wars, including in Iran … He has also distinguished himself as one of the few Republicans willing to publicly criticize Israel … His debut of the AIPAC Act comes as he’s in the fight of his political life in Kentucky, where pro-Israel lobbying groups have unleashed a flood of money to unseat him in next week’s Republican primary (May 19). Rep. Massie Comments on `The Most Expensive Congressional Race in US History’ Video - X Rep. Thomas Massie speaks about “the most expensive congressional race in U.S. history.” The Republican primary election campaign for his congressional seat in Kentucky, Tuesday, May 19, he says, has “turned into a referendum on whether Israel gets to buy seats in Congress. And what they found out is that my seat is really expensive. By the time this is over, they will probably have spent $20 million, and come up short … I’ve never seen Great Britain, Australia, or even Germany play in our elections here in the United States. But Israel gets so much from the United States. It’s a one-sided relationship. They get us to be their proxies in wars they want against their enemies. They get our military assistance. They get our technology. They get our bombs. They get our tax dollars. And I think it’s a very one-sided relationship.” New York Times Article Details Brutal Rape of Palestinians. Israel Calls It ‘Blood Libel’ Middle East Eye Mounted by dogs, penetrated by carrots, and rectums torn by batons. These are just some of the harrowing testimonies of the rape of Palestinians by Israeli soldiers, detailed by New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof in a landmark piece published on Monday. None of it is new … And in March, Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories, said in her report to the UN Human Rights Council that “the Israeli prison system has degenerated into a laboratory of calculated cruelty” with acts that include rape of Palestinians with bottles, metal rods and knives. But for a corporate media giant like the NYT, which has often overlooked and doubted Palestinian narratives, such storytelling is novel, and the Israeli government immediately slammed the decision to run it. From Rutgers Speaker to Kristof Column, Disputed Dog Rape Claim Against Israel Goes Mainstream JTA A week after a university commencement speaker was canceled because of a tweet claiming that Israel trains dogs to rape Palestinian prisoners, the allegation leapt into the pages of The New York Times. The columnist Nicholas Kristof included the claim in a column alleging widespread sexual abuse against Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons … Linking to a range of pro-Palestinian sources, he notes that other prisoners had recounted similar experiences elsewhere. Israel has rejected all of the allegations in Kristof’s column, which has elicited condemnation from Jewish groups for what they say is a “a modern-day blood libel” even as some say they believe it is important to take seriously claims of abuse in Israeli prisons. The New York Times has stood behind the column, and said Kristof’s column reflects rigorous reporting and standards. Sexual Violence and Forcible Transfer in the West Bank Norwegian Refugee Council This report documents gender-based and sexualised violence perpetrated by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in Area C of the West Bank in contexts where Israeli forces were present and did not prevent or halt the violence, nor effectively investigate the abuses. In these circumstances, such violence is not occurring in isolation. It operates within a coercive environment that contributes to the forcible transfer of Palestinian communities. The research results of this report found at least 16 cases of conflict-related sexual violence attributed to Israeli settlers and soldiers. These cases form part of a broader pattern of sexualised harassment, intimidation and humiliation, much of which remains underreported. Why U.S. Test Scores Are in a ‘Generation-Long Decline’ The New York Times Something troubling is happening in U.S. education. Almost everywhere in America, students are performing worse than their peers were 10 years ago, according to new, district-level test score data released Wednesday by the Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford...