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Historians' Letter interrupt President Obama and Components of Congress

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Feminist scholars call on Obama to drop the torture-based charges against Rasmea Odeh

An Open Letter to President Obama and the United States Department of Justice

Between , Rasmea Odeh served 10 years in an Israeli prison. Her sentence was based on a confession she made in the midst of 45 days of sexual and physical torture while in detention. Following her release, she was exiled from her Palestinian homeland and eventually immigrated to the United States from Jordan in as a legal resident where she tried to put her memories of torture behind her. She later became a naturalized citizen.

In the US, Rasmea settled in Chicago where she became the associate director of the Arab American Action Network, a social service and community organization in Chicago. There, she established the Arab Women’s Committee, a grassroots collective that promotes leadership among Arab immigrant women, challenges systems of oppression that impact Arab women’s lives, and secures a positive and safe political, economic, social, and cultural environment for Arab women and their communities. In , the Chicago Cultural Alliance granted Rasmea its Outstanding Community Leader Award in recognition of her devotion of &#;over 40 years of her life to the empowerment of Arab women.&#;

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Zionism is finally in the news, as officials seek to conflate anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism

As someone who has long urged the media to openly discuss the competing claims of Zionism and anti-Zionism, I am gratified that those words are breaking into the mainstream at last. Though right now the discussion chiefly centers on the assertion that anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism.

Many officials have lately charged that anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism; even Bernie Sanders, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have echoed that claim. In doing so, they have accepted the idea that Judaism now entails a commitment to the idea of a Jewish state in historical Palestine. Many of us disagree, and we are ready to make our own case here&#; see Rachel Sandalow-Ash of Open Hillel, whose comments end this article. But let&#;s look at the official voices first.

Yesterday both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders were critical of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions campaign (BDS) against Israel, a campaign many anti-Zionists support.

At the AIPAC conference, Clinton said BDS is inherently anti-semitic because it seeks to &#;undermine.. the Jewish people.&#; To wit:

Many of the young people here today are on the front lines of the battle to oppose the alarming boycott, divestment and sanctions movement