{"id":1975139,"date":"2023-07-17T13:22:03","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T17:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pramila-jayapal-backtracks-after-calling-israel-a-racist-state\/"},"modified":"2023-07-17T13:23:13","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T17:23:13","slug":"pramila-jayapal-backtracks-after-calling-israel-a-racist-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pramila-jayapal-backtracks-after-calling-israel-a-racist-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Pramila Jayapal retracts statement on Israel as &#8216;racist state&#8217;."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpramila-jayapal-backtracks-after-calling-israel-a-racist-state%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1975139&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div \u2064class=\"post_content\">\n\u2064  <\/p>\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" \u2063data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0717\/3059d349-e015-4f06-b13a-5aacc7f4af41\/audio.mp3?length=5739885&#038;duration=478\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p> \u2064\u200d <\/p>\n<h2>Congressional Progressive Caucus\u200b Chair\u2062 Backtracks on \u2064Israel\u2063 Comments<\/h2>\n<p>  \u2064<\/p>\n<p>Congressional \u2064Progressive Caucus \u200bChair \u2063Pramila \u200dJayapal (D-Wash.) \u200chas\u2062 sparked \u2064controversy with her recent\u2062 comments about Israel. However, she \u200dhas\u200b since clarified her\u200c statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u200d  <\/p>\n<p>During\u200c a \u2063speech \u200cat the annual conference for\u200d the progressive \u200borganization\u200b Netroots Nation, Jayapal referred to Israel as a &#8220;racist state&#8221;\u200d and expressed \u2064concern about \u200dthe\u2064 diminishing \u2064possibility \u2062of \u200ca two-state solution.\u2063 These <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mayor-of-boston-equates-requiring-proof-of-vaccination-to-jim-crow-trump\/\" title=\"Mayor Of Boston Equates Requiring Proof Of Vaccination To Jim Crow, \u2018Trump\u2019\">remarks drew criticism<\/a> from fellow Democrats,\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pramila-jayapal-backtracks-after-calling-israel-a-racist-state\/\" title=\"Pramila Jayapal retracts statement on Israel as 'racist state'.\">including\u2064 party leadership<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> \u2063\u2062 <\/p>\n<p>In response to the\u2063 backlash,\u2063 Jayapal issued a statement clarifying her position. She\u200b emphasized\u2063 that she does \u200bnot believe Israel as\u200d a nation is racist, \u200cbut \u200crather \u200dcriticized \u200bPrime\u2064 Minister \u2064Benjamin Netanyahu\u2062 and his \u2064government\u2062 for engaging\u2063 in \u200bdiscriminatory \u200band racist policies.<\/p>\n<p>Despite\u200b her clarification, the\u2062 Conference\u2062 of \u200cPresidents of Major American Jewish Organizations condemned Jayapal&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/teachers-union-goes-to-war-with-adam-carolla-after-he-calls-them-cowards\/\" title=\"Teachers\u2019 Union Goes To War With Adam Carolla After He Calls Them Cowards\">initial remarks<\/a>,\u2064 calling them\u2062 false and evocative of antisemitic\u200c tropes.<\/p>\n<p> \u2062 <\/p>\n<p>On \u2064the\u2064 other hand,\u2064 progressive\u2063 organization\u2064 J Street\u200b applauded \u200bJayapal&#8217;s statement, expressing \u200csupport\u2063 for her stance \u2062against \u200cdiscriminatory policies and\u2062 harm to Israel&#8217;s\u200d democracy.<\/p>\n<p>House\u2064 Democrat \u2063leadership,\u2063 while \u200dnot directly addressing \u200bJayapal, reaffirmed their support for Israel \u200das a Jewish and Democratic nation. They emphasized the \u200cimportance of \u2062the\u200c special\u2064 relationship between\u200d the United States and Israel, \u200bas \u200cwell as\u2062 their\u200d commitment to a \u2064two-state solution.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) faced backlash from fellow Democrats, including party leaders, for labeling Israel a &#8220;racist state.&#8221; Jayapal has since retracted her statement, emphasizing her commitment to advocating for justice and equality through peaceful demonstrations and activism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1797,"featured_media":1975140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1975139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1797"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1975139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1975140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1975139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1975139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1975139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}