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A controversial United Nations agency is being investigated by U.S. officials for alleged ties to terrorism. The U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the U.N. organization for Palestinian refugees, has more than 1,500 employees being probed for links to terrorism.
U.S. officials have increasingly called on U.N. member states to defund UNRWA after decades of concerns about its school materials promoting terror, the presence of Hamas tunnels beneath UNRWA schools and charges that staff members participated in the Hamas terrorist attacks of Oct. 7 against Israel.
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As the USAID Office of the Inspector General, a law enforcement agency separate from USAID, continues to investigate 1,500 UNRWA employees, it recently announced that it had referred a total of 108 current or former UNRWA staff to the State Department for suspension or exclusion from working with organizations that receive U.S. funds. Those members were found to be involved in the Hamas invasion of southern Israel, or were members of terrorist groups.
A U.S. diplomatic official briefed by USAID OIG investigators confirmed to Fox News Digital that at least 1,500 current or former UNRWA employees are under investigation for ties to foreign terrorist organizations in Gaza.
Celerity (55,659 posts)
Democratic Support for Israel Craters to Historic Low, New Poll Finds
https://www.algemeiner.com/2026/07/08/new-poll-reveals-support-for-israel-eroding-among-democrats/
Support for Israel among Democratic voters has fallen to its lowest level in years, according to a new Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll, underscoring a dramatic realignment within the Democratic Party as the aftermath of the war in Gaza continues to reshape US politics.
The survey found that a majority of Democrats now sympathize more with the Palestinians than with Israelis, while Republicans remain overwhelmingly supportive of Israel — one of the widest partisan divides over the US-Israel relationship in decades.
According to the poll, 56 percent of Democrats say they sympathize more with the Palestinian people, while just 14 percent say they sympathize more with Israelis. Among Republicans, by contrast, 71 percent say they are more sympathetic to Israel, compared with just 7 percent who identify more closely with the Palestinians.
The findings come nearly three years after the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on southern Israel by the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, in which approximately 1,200 people were killed and roughly 250 others taken hostage. Israel launched its military campaign in Gaza following the attack, saying its objective was to dismantle Hamas, free the hostages, and prevent another massacre.
The poll suggests Democratic voters have grown increasingly critical of Israel’s conduct during the war. Fifty-eight percent of Democrats now believe the United States is too supportive of Israel, up from 45 percent in an AP-NORC survey conducted in early 2024, while 53 percent say Washington is not supportive enough of the Palestinians — a continued shift away from the bipartisan consensus that defined US support for Israel for decades.
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Israel's favorability rating among Democrats fell from 59% in 2018 to 22% in May, according to Reuters/Ipsos polling.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/skeptical-us-democrats-congress-urge-debate-israel-plans-2026-07-09/
MineralMan (152,194 posts)
1. I support the nationhood of Israel.
I do not necessarily support the actions of its government, though.
Two different things.
Stuckinthebush (11,230 posts)
4. Absolutely
The conflation of being anti-Israeli government at the moment with being antisemitic is troubling to me. I would say that many Democrats and Americans are anti-Netanyahu but pro Israel being a country and anti-antisemitic. Simply put:
I support the nationhood of Israel and their right to defend that nation
I support the people of Palestine having their right to exist as a separate nation without fear of slaughter by any other nation
I DO NOT support Hamas or their despicable actions
I DO NOT support any despicable actions toward civilians by the IDF in retaliation
I DO NOT support Netanyahu in his leadership of Israel and his actions in the region
I reject any action against Jewish people around the globe as either a response to Netanyahu's actions or as general hatred toward Jews
I reject any action against Palestinians around the globe as either a response to Hamas or general hatred toward Islam
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221377522
Same way any leftist scum "knows" anything...
Progressive Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) claimed he was detained by armed Israeli settlers during a recent visit to the West Bank, alleging Israeli soldiers sided with the civilians before using the encounter to accuse Israel of "genocide" and "apartheid."
But Israeli officials say the congressman's account omits critical facts, accusing Khanna of refusing repeated offers to coordinate his trip, entering what was believed to be a closed military zone without authorization, and then exploiting the incident for political and fundraising purposes.
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According to Israeli Ambassador Yechiel (Michael) Leiter, Khanna repeatedly declined offers to coordinate his visit with Israeli authorities, bypassed the US Embassy in Jerusalem, entered what soldiers believed was a closed military zone without authorization, and was briefly stopped only because security forces had no advance notice of his presence. Once his identity was confirmed, he and his entourage were immediately allowed to continue.
Oil producers in the Persian Gulf are making plans to bypass the Strait of Hormuz with new pipelines and a new port after Iran has repeatedly attacked ships and blocked traffic.
The idea is to minimize Tehran’s leverage on the waterway that once saw 20% of the world’s oil pass through it as the war stretches into its fifth month.
Iran has already insisted that it will impose tolls on the strait, which could cost tens of billions of dollars. And in some cases, it is extracting millions of dollars of protection money per oil tanker.
Two such projects are already underway in the United Arab Emirates and Iraq — with Saudi Arabia eyeing its own and Dubai also seeking to establish a new port to further reduce dependence on the strait.
The Mexican government is using lawyers to block ICE’s repatriation of migrant Mexicans back to Mexico, according to Reuters.QuoteMexico has begun filing criminal complaints with state prosecutors in the United States over the deaths of its citizens in U.S. immigration custody and during enforcement operations, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday.
Mexico’s government has also sent cease-and-desist letters to U.S. detention centers where Mexican nationals have died, the ministry added in a statement.
“I don’t think this situation appears acceptable to anyone,” Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Monday. “This is an issue for all Mexicans,” she said, portraying the legal intervention as a nationalist cause for Mexicans.
Mexico’s government is also asking the United Nations to investigate U.S. deportation operations following the recent deaths of 17 Mexicans during the deportation process.
Ro Khanna can't catch a break.
The man calls himself a "long shot candidate for president," and he has that description about right. While always left-leaning, his rapid rise in Democratic politics was fueled by representing the tech bros of Silicon Valley in Congress. It's been a very good deal for him; he has managed to dramatically increase his wealth by becoming the most prolific stock trader in Congress, cement relationships with money people who could fund his run for the presidency, and present himself to the Democratic Party oligarchs as a guy they could do business with.
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So now he has become Israel's #1 enemy among the potential presidential candidates, doing his own Pallywood production in the West Bank and attacking Israel for "detaining" a US Congressman.
Now that's the ticket, right? All Democrats can agree that the Joos are the root of all evil.
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Only...the most vocal activists in the Democratic Party and the "progressive" movement don't just want Israel destroyed. They want blood, and are willing to defend Hamas as legitimate resistance.
Khanna went on the podcast of the highly disreputable Drop Site News, which makes Glenn Greenwald almost look Israel-friendly, and all he got for his troubles was a talking-to. Actually, a yelling at.
Same way any leftist scum "knows" anything...
