Palestinian-American congressional candidate called out over pledge to cut military aid to ‘discriminatory’ Israel - Israel News - Haaretz.com

16.8.18

Allison Kaplan Sommer // Palestinian-American congressional candidate called out over pledge to cut military aid to ‘discriminatory’ Israel - Israel News - Haaretz.com: “U.S. aid should be leveraged,” she said, “It should be leveraged to promote that value [of justice]. If you are going to be a country that discriminates against someone solely based on their faith, solely based on their skin color [as] there are Israelis [who] because they are darker skinned... are not being treated equally. To me, that doesn’t fit the values of our country.”

“So I will be using my position as a member of Congress to say no country - not one - should be able to get aid from us, the American people, who talk about justice and equality and stopping discrimination when they promote that kind of injustice.”