{"id":401356,"date":"2019-03-26T02:36:31","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T01:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/house-majority-leader-steny-hoyer-delivers-pro-israel-speech-at-aipac\/"},"modified":"2019-03-26T02:36:31","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T01:36:31","slug":"house-majority-leader-steny-hoyer-delivers-pro-israel-speech-at-aipac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/house-majority-leader-steny-hoyer-delivers-pro-israel-speech-at-aipac\/","title":{"rendered":"House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer Delivers Pro-Israel Speech at AIPAC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span>Rep. Steny Hoyer, the number two Democrat in the House, came under fire from progressives Sunday night after he used his <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.majorityleader.gov\/content\/hoyer-delivers-remarks-aipac-annual-policy-conference\">address at AIPAC\u2019s policy conference<\/a><span> to attack left-wing members of his caucus and throw his full support behind a resolution condemning the boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI stand with Israel, proudly and unapologetically,\u201d said the Democrat from Maryland, whose remarks were immediately interpreted as a thinly veiled attack on Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.). \u201cSo, when someone accuses American supporters of Israel of dual loyalty, I say: Accuse me. I am part of a large, bipartisan coalition in Congress supporting Israel. I tell Israel\u2019s detractors: Accuse us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are 62 freshman Democrats. Not three,\u201d Hoyer added, in an<span> <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alexnazaryan\/status\/1109951071164747776\">apparent swipe<\/a><span> <\/span>at Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), and Omar.<\/p>\n<div class=\"truth-post-content-high  inline-callout-container\" id=\"255792\">\n<div class=\"truth-post-content-high\" id=\"truth-1917123867\">\n<aside class=\" inline-callout inline-callout--subscribe inline-callout--dark\" id=\"255395\">\n<div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n<h2>Uncompromised, uncompromising news<\/h2>\n<p>Get reliable, independent news and commentary delivered to your inbox every day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.majorityleader.gov\/content\/hoyer-delivers-remarks-aipac-annual-policy-conference\">Read Hoyer\u2019s full remarks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDemocratic House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer is at AIPAC throwing his own colleague, Ilhan Omar, under the bus. Shameful,\u201d tweeted Shaun King, a columnist with<span> <\/span><em>The Intercept<\/em>. \u201cAnd in one fell swoop, to fawning applause, he basically confirms @IlhanMN was right all along.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Wow. <\/p>\n<p>DEMOCRATIC House Majority Leader, Steny Hoyer (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LeaderHoyer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@LeaderHoyer<\/a>) is at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AIPAC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AIPAC<\/a> throwing his own colleague, Ilhan Omar, under the bus. <\/p>\n<p>Shameful. <\/p>\n<p>And in one fell swoop, to fawning applause, he basically confirms <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IlhanMN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@IlhanMN<\/a> was right all along. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yVKEibMGJq\">https:\/\/t.co\/yVKEibMGJq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shaun King (@shaunking) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shaunking\/status\/1109951562372255745?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 24, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">It\u2019s seriously incredible that Steny Hoyer spent today of all days delivering an unhinged attack on his fellow Democrats in Congress. He should step down <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eTo0JqAwHw\">https:\/\/t.co\/eTo0JqAwHw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kenton (@KentonTilford) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KentonTilford\/status\/1109953374215131137?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 24, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Hoyer went on to express support for a bipartisan resolution condemning the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement, which was<span> <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/powerpost\/democrats-unveil-bipartisan-measure-rebuking-boycott-movement-against-israel\/2019\/03\/21\/0070717c-4c01-11e9-9663-00ac73f49662_story.html\">introduced<\/a><span> <\/span>by House Democrats last&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/house-majority-leader-steny-hoyer-touts-pro-israel-speech-at-aipac\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Steny Hoyer, the number two Democrat in the House, came under fire from progressives Sunday night after he used his address at AIPAC\u2019s policy conference to attack left-wing members of his caucus and throw his full support behind a resolution condemning the boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement. \u201cI stand with Israel, proudly and unapologetically,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-401356","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}