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Congresswoman Marie Newman of Illinois during forum in Bridgeview, Illinois Sept. 26, 2021 on Israel's Iron Dome, and strategy to achieve peace through justice

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Posted on September 28, 2021September 28, 2021 By rayhanania No Comments on Illinois Congresswoman slams passage of Iron Dome, and home thefts in Sheikh Jarrah
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Illinois Congresswoman slams passage of Iron Dome, and home thefts in Sheikh Jarrah

Marie Newman tells taxpayers it is possible to change US foreign policy and speak out against Israel’s human rights abuses. Activists slam Congress members who supported Iron Dome removing it from he larger, delayed funding package delayed in the House by partisan bickering to help Israel get what it needs quickly

By Ray Hanania 

Illinois Congresswoman Marie Newman told constituents on Sunday they “can make a difference” in strengthening US support for Palestinian rights, and to curb excessive funding demands by Israel.

Newman was one of only nine House of Representatives members who voted against a bill last week giving Israel $1 billion to purchase more short-range missiles for its Iron Dome defense system.

Speaking at the Palestine American Club in the Chicago suburb of Bridgeview, Newman urged Americans to target donors who give hundreds of millions of dollars to the Senate’s 100 members as a means of forcing change.

“Start talking to senators. Remember, in Congress, in the House of Representatives, we only have the purse that we can deal with. We (members of Congress) can only say yea or nay to money,” Newman explained, noting that the House addresses funding while the Senate and administration addresses policy.

“So, that is why the Iron Dome vote is important, right? It is to say, ‘No, Israel. You can’t have another billion dollars.’ What we have to do is start talking to people who actually make policy.”

Congresswoman Marie Newman of Illinois during forum in Bridgeview, Illinois Sept. 26, 2021 on Israel's Iron Dome, and strategy to achieve peace through justice
Congresswoman Marie Newman of Illinois during forum in Bridgeview, Illinois Sept. 26, 2021 on Israel’s Iron Dome, and strategy to achieve peace through justice

Congress voted on Sept. 23 to separate Israel’s Iron Dome vote from the larger and stalled vote to fund American news. The US already gives Israel $500 million annually for the missile defense system under an agreement signed by President Barack Obama in 2016.

3rd District Congresswoman Marie Newman with American Arab Chamber of Commerce President Hassan Nijem, at rally Sept. 4, 2020 hosted by the American Arab Chamber of Commerce and American Palestine Club. Photo courtesy of the American Arab Chamber of Commerce endorsed candidate Marie Newman with American Arab Chamber of Commerce President Hassan Nijem, at rally Sept. 4, 2020 hosted by the American Arab Chamber of Commerce and American Palestine Club. Photo courtesy of the American Arab Chamber of Commerce
3rd District Congresswoman Marie Newman with American Arab Chamber of Commerce President Hassan Nijem, at rally Sept. 4, 2020 hosted by the American Arab Chamber of Commerce and American Palestine Club. Photo courtesy of the American Arab Chamber of Commerce

Arab Americans denounced Congress for removing the Iron Dome funding vote from the larger spending bill that remains stalled in partisan, political bickering. Another attempt to pass it may not take place until Thursday.

“Instead of passing a bill to address the immediate and critical needs of the American people in the larger spending bill, Congress put Israel above the American people and removed the Iron Dome funding so Israel would not have to wait the way American taxpayers are waiting and suffering,” said Hassan Nijem, president of the American Arab Chamber of Commerce of Chicagoland, which co-sponsored Newman’s appearance.

“It’s shameful when 420 members of Congress vote so quickly to give Israel, a foreign country, $1 billion. But they can’t seem to find the time or the courage to help American citizens overcome their challenges.”

Congresswoman Marie Newman of Illinois during forum in Bridgeview, Illinois Sept. 26, 2021 on Israel's Iron Dome, and strategy to achieve peace through justice
Congresswoman Marie Newman of Illinois during forum in Bridgeview, Illinois Sept. 26, 2021 on Israel’s Iron Dome, and strategy to achieve peace through justice

Newman was among nine members of Congress who voted against the Iron Dome appropriation. The nine were immediately attacked by Israel’s UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan on Monday who said they were “either ignorant or anti-Semitic.”

Newman did not address Erdan’s personal attacks, and instead focused on how US citizens can get their government to reprioritize spending to address their needs.

She said that activists need to focus on the corporations, businesses and individuals who donate hundreds of millions of dollars to Senate members who are responsible for defining so-far failed US policy efforts to achieve peace in the Middle East.

“So, you have to start talking to their donors and you have to start making them realize this is an important humanitarian issue, and that everybody is safer in the region when Palestine is safe and free and able to move, and be healthy and prosperous — everybody will be happier,” Newman said.

Newman said she is also working to reinforce communications between Arab and Muslim Americans and the staff of Secretary of State Antony Blinken, announcing the creation of an Arab and Muslim American Council in the 3rd District.

“We have to start talking to the senators and we have to start talking with the administration.”

Audience at Palestine Club as Congresswoman Marie Newman of Illinois speaks during forum in Bridgeview, Illinois Sept. 26, 2021 on Israel's Iron Dome, and strategy to achieve peace through justice
Audience at Palestine Club as Congresswoman Marie Newman of Illinois speaks during forum in Bridgeview, Illinois Sept. 26, 2021 on Israel’s Iron Dome, and strategy to achieve peace through justice

 

Audience at Palestine Club as Congresswoman Marie Newman of Illinois speaks during forum in Bridgeview, Illinois Sept. 26, 2021 on Israel's Iron Dome, and strategy to achieve peace through justice
Audience at Palestine Club as Congresswoman Marie Newman of Illinois speaks during forum in Bridgeview, Illinois Sept. 26, 2021 on Israel’s Iron Dome, and strategy to achieve peace through justice

Newman also addressed the continued human rights “crisis” in Sheikh Jarrah in the occupied West Bank city of East Jerusalem, where Israel is taking homes and property from Christian and Muslim civilians and giving them to Jewish settler organizations.

“I always like to be very clear that this is home theft. When you steal someone’s house and you are a victim, it is called home theft. It is not right here in Chicago. It is not right in Palestine. It is not right in Montreal. It is not right in Hong Kong,” Newman said.

“So, we put together a letter that typically would only be signed by seven, eight or nine members of Congress. But because my team is amazing, and I decided to do a lot of outreach and to be very tenacious, we had 25 members of Congress sign on to the letter.”

Most of Newman’s remarks addressed the needs of the 3rd Congressional District, explaining that she is supporting an infrastructure bill that would provide economic and educational support to families hard pressed by the nearly two-year long pandemic.

Audience at Palestine Club as Congresswoman Marie Newman of Illinois speaks during forum in Bridgeview, Illinois Sept. 26, 2021 on Israel's Iron Dome, and strategy to achieve peace through justice
Audience at Palestine Club as Congresswoman Marie Newman of Illinois speaks during forum in Bridgeview, Illinois Sept. 26, 2021 on Israel’s Iron Dome, and strategy to achieve peace through justice

“Roads and bridges bring lots of jobs. On the human infrastructure side of the package, it will bring paid leave, universal child care, two years of community college free for young people, middle-aged people or our elders who want to go back to school,” she said.

The proposed spending bill that remains deadlocked in the House would increase deductions for small businesses and reduce taxes between 5-10 percent. She also said that the spending bill provides funding to improve the nation’s infrastructure to improve the environment, and help Americans facing financial and health difficulties.

A first-term member of Congress, Newman was elected to represent the 3rd Congressional District in November 2020. The district has been held by a Democrat since 1975 and is overwhelmingly Democratic. It was ranked as having the eighth-largest Arab-American population of 50 American congressional districts by The New York Times, and largest concentration of Palestinian-American voters.

Originally published in Arab News Newspaper Tuesday Sept. 28, 2021

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Ray Hanania is an award winning political and humor columnist who analyzes American and Middle East politics, and life in general. He is an author of several books.

Hanania covered Chicago Politics and Chicago City Hall from 1976 through 1992 at the Daily Southtown and the Chicago Sun-Times. He began writing in 1975 publishing The Middle Eastern Voice newspaper in Chicago (1975-1977). He later published “The National Arab American Times” newspaper (2004-2007).

Hanania writes weekly columns on Middle East and American Arab issues as Special US Correspondent for the Arab News ArabNews.com, at TheArabDailyNews.com, and at SuburbanChicagoland.com. He has published weekly columns in the Jerusalem Post newspaper, YNetNews.com, Newsday, the Orlando Sentinel, Houston Chronical, and Arlington Heights Daily Herald.

Hanania is the recipient of four (4) Chicago Headline Club “Peter Lisagor Awards” for Column writing. In November 2006, he was named “Best Ethnic American Columnist” by the New American Media. In 2009, Hanania received the prestigious Sigma Delta Chi Award for Writing from the Society of Professional Journalists. He is the recipient of the MT Mehdi Courage in Journalism Award. He was honored for his writing skills with two (2) Chicago Stick-o-Type awards from the Chicago Newspaper Guild. In 1990, Hanania was nominated by the Chicago Sun-Times editors for a Pulitzer Prize for his four-part series on the Palestinian Intifada.

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