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Palestinian BDS founder denied entry to US – PNN

Bethlehem/PNN/ The US administration has denied entry to a prominent Palestinian human rights activi

Source: Palestinian BDS founder denied entry to US – PNN

Ilhan Omar defended by Democrats after Trump uses 9/11 video in attack

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  • Sanders decries ‘disgusting and dangerous’ attacks
  • Buttigieg: ‘Threats against Omar make clear what is at stake’

Democrats including leading candidates for the 2020 presidential nomination have fiercely condemned Donald Trump and other Republicans’ growing efforts to smear the Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan Omar, and urged other party leaders to do the same.

Related: Republicans falsely claim Ilhan Omar denied 9/11 attackers were terrorists

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Steve Bannon ‘told Italy’s populist leader: Pope Francis is the enemy’ | World news | The Guardian

Bannon has steadily been building opposition to Francis through his Dignitatis Humanae Institute, based in a 13th-century mountaintop monastery not far from Rome. In January 2017, Bannon became a patron of the institute, whose honorary president is Cardinal Raymond Burke, an ultra-conservative who believes organised networks of homosexuals are spreading a “gay agenda” in the Vatican.

Source: Steve Bannon ‘told Italy’s populist leader: Pope Francis is the enemy’ | World news | The Guardian

US’s decision to deny BDS movement cofounder entry sparks backlash

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Omar Barghouti said his visa was revoked for ‘immigration reasons’ as some call it an attack on freedom of expression

A decision by the US government to deny entry to Omar Barghouti, a prominent Palestinian activist and the cofounder of the controversial Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel, has drawn accusations that the move is an attack on freedom of expression.

While others spoke out in favor of the ban, Barghouti has condemned the decision as “politically motivated” and part of Israel’s “escalating repression against Palestinian, Israeli and international human rights defenders”.

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Instagram Stands By Laura Loomer Calling Ilhan Omar’s Islamic Faith ‘Cancer’ – Facebook, owner of Instagram, tolerates death threats for profit!

In Instagram and Twitter replies to the attacks, Omar opponents called for her deportation or murder. Death threats are against Twitter and Instagram’s terms of service. But both sites, as well as other social media platforms, like Facebook and YouTube, have been criticized for allowing violence to proliferate in violation of their rules. Threats piled into the comments on those sites, including in response to anti-Omar comments by the leader of the Republican National Committee.

Source: Instagram Stands By Laura Loomer Calling Ilhan Omar’s Islamic Faith ‘Cancer’

The Risks of Romancing the White Male Voter | Dame Magazine

I would rather claw my eyes out with caviar forks than read these arguments again. But, then, the white-man gambit appears to be universal. Both Democratic frontrunners are working to shift the party’s ideological center to an imaginary “working-class white man” who is open to voting for progressive policies, but only as long as they don’t challenge any of his biases.

Source: The Risks of Romancing the White Male Voter | Dame Magazine