the tug birthright israel program do you have questions or comments about the trip or even gone on it yourself tell us about it in the chat and we'll do our best to include your comments in the conversation. since one thousand nine hundred ninety israel has enabled thousands of young jewish people around the well to visit israel the nonprofit program takes participants on an all expenses paid journey through the country but palestinian rights activists say the trip whitewashes the israel palestine conflict effectively ignoring the occupation critics have also questioned the ethics of the program noting the inability of palestinians in the diaspora to return to their ancestral home that in july twenty eight thousand a small group of birthright israel participants from the activist group if not now walked off the trip protesting what they called the year a share of the palestinian experience supporters of the program have accused demonstrators of using a free trip to make a political statement at the expense of people who might not otherwise be able to afford it but groups like jewish v

of israel could soon be two now elsewhere in europe twelve m.p.'s resigned from their parties in the u.k. nine labor three conservatives citing the failure to deal with anti semitism as one of the reasons and the u.s. says hate speech and harassment are becoming the new norm so is anti semitism a growing problem in europe and are jewish people being singled out we'll discuss that with our guests shortly but first david chaytor with more from paris. the french president emmanuel macron was saying that anti semitism has now reached its worst levels since the second world war figures published for last year show the number of anti-semitic attacks and risen by seventy four percent now france has the biggest jewish community in europe of course and he was speaking to community leaders at an annual dinner he promised a new legislation to ban hate speech on the internet he also asked his interior minister to take action to ban extreme right wing groups who were promoting and fueling violence and discrimination but perhaps the most significant thing is that he said that he would now consider

twitter to complain about the influence of the pro israel lobby in the united states don't call it a has a story in american politics multi-million dollar lobbies reign supreme and there's almost always a good reason to criticize them big pharma is a usual target i don't think americans have the same big warm fuzzy feeling for big pharma pharma pharma has a lot of lobbies a lot a lot of years so a lot of power sometimes it's the gun lobby the national rifle association the n.r.a. the n.r.a. they do have great power i agree with that they have great power over your people. they have lost power over and of course plenty of others but there's one rule everyone apparently needs to follow don't criticize israel ilhan all maher learned the hard way with a five letter tweet it's all about the benjamins baby benjamins as in hundred. dollar bills it's pretty clear she was referencing the israel lobby but almost everyone took it as a secret sematic insult from republicans to fellow democrats all more wasn't danger of joining the black book of anti semites and so i assume it's a troops have no

defend israel for the money and the pro-israel group apack was paying lawmakers for their support. the congresswoman apologized after democratic leaders condemned her statement, saying in a statement, quote, we are and will always be strong supporters of israel in congress because we understand that our support is based on shared values and strategic interests, legitimate criticism of israel's policies is protected by the values of free speech and democratic debate that the united states and israel share but congresswoman omar's use of anti-semetic tropes and prejudicial accusations about israel's supporters is deeply offensive. let's bring in fox news contributor, all aari fleischer. let me ask what you think of the omar episode and how democrats handled it. >> it's a per son fi per son phf what's been happening. the pugh organization has been asking, who do you sympathize with more and in 2001, almost 20 years ago when they asked the question, 50% of republicans said they sympathize more with republicans 38% of democrats. that was a 12 point israel gap. today, that gap is 52 points.

interested in that global perspective that al-jazeera provides. to. the law. israel's prime minister dismisses a decision to indict him on corruption charges as a political witch hunt. hello i'm maryam namazie and london you're always al-jazeera also coming up on the program basically they one of the sanctions lifted. in there in turkey. we couldn't do that donald trump says he had to walk away from a deal with kim jong un but north korea's foreign minister disputes his explanation pakistan pledges to release a captured indian pilots as a peace gesture to ease tensions over kashmir plus. hockey sells supporters celebrate his official results give him a second term as senegal's president without the need for a runoff. welcome to the program israel's attorney general says he intends to indict prime minister benjamin netanyahu for bribery fraud and breach of trust in three separate corruption cases that in yahoo has rejected the allegations saying they are politically motivated ahead of elections in april he claims he is the victim of an unprecedented witch hunt but it smith re

israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu dismisses of the citizen to indict him on corruption charges as a political witch hunt. you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming out of the u.n. says israeli forces may have committed war crimes in their crackdown on palestinians protesting in gaza basically they wanted the sanctions lifted. in their entirety and we couldn't do that. says he had to walk away from a summit with kim jong il and with no deal but north korea's foreign minister has this view to that explanation and pakistan pledges to release a captured indian pilot as a peace gesture but both sides remain on high alert for attacks. hello thank you for joining us israel's attorney general says he intends to indict prime minister benjamin netanyahu for bribery fraud and breach of trust in three separate corruption cases his likud party is calling it political persecution ahead of april's election and in the last hour national himself has said the charges against him will collapse like a house of cards. remember tim the goodwood put three years they've been cond

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-- so finally, the first one looks at him and says, i thought we agreed not to talk about israel. so i am here to talk about israel and to talk about human rights. it is a controversial conjunction of topics and topics that generate a lot of debate inside the jewish world and more broadly about the nature of human rights, international human rights of the united nations. about the question of human rights in the israeli- palestinian conflict. it is also issues that we confront directly today that have to do with keywords that have now become very hot words, such as nationalism, globalism, right? and the goal of this talk is to share some work connected to the research in this book and to try to explain in a certain sense the history we don't know and it might help us unpack some of what we've arrived at and i think the story and it may inform the way we think about the possible future going forward. now, to be more specific, this is an anniversary year, for the reasons you heard, as well as for the fact that 2018 marks the 70th anniversary of two monumental occasions. the universal dec

current affairs that matter to al-jazeera. israel and prevent a new law that will penalize the palestinian authority for supporting the families of jailed passed in prisoners. this is al jazeera live from london also coming up saudi arabia's crown prince signs deals worth twenty billion dollars with pakistan on the first stop of an asian top. iran's foreign minister warns israeli and american policies towards tehran increasing the risk of war in the region. and as aid waits in limbo at the border we take a closer look at how vital goods and services continue to flow into venezuela. israel's government has implemented a law that will take away millions of dollars of tax revenue from the palestinian authority the palestinian government pays compensation to the families of people convicted by israel on charges of carrying out attacks israel will deduct an amount equal to that compensation from tax funds it raises on behalf of the palestinian authority that will cut revenue to the p.a. by an hundred thirty eight million dollars a year are a force that has more now from west jerusal

a new chance at one. zero. setback for benjamin netanyahu israel's attorney general decides to indict him on charges of corruption. this is just zero life i'm dead you know also ahead. it was a very productive two days but sometimes you have to walk donald trump blames north korea's unacceptable demands for the failure to reach a nuclear deal and his second summit with kim jong. a gesture for peace as prime minister iran khan is pakistan announces it will release the captured indian pilot on friday senegal's president gets a second term in office his rivals concede defeat and decide not to contest the election results. hello israel's attorney general says he intends to indict prime minister benjamin netanyahu for bribery fraud and breach of trust his recommendation is based on a two year investigation by the police into three separate corruption cases and that's and yahoo denies any wrongdoing or has the party is calling it political persecution ahead of april's election it's the first time a sitting prime minister has been charged bernard smith joining us from west jerusalem t

you. congress woman illan omar under fire for numerous tweets about the pro israel lobby got into a heated exchange to the u.s. special envoy to venezuela. >> yes or no, do you think massacre was a fabulous achievement that happened under our watch? >> that is a ridiculous question -- >> yes or no. >> no. >> i will take that as a yes. >> i am not going to respond to that attack which is not a question. >> dana: joining me now former white house press secretary under george w. bush and fox news contributor. there has been a lot of discussion about congress woman omar. she's been in the news for the discussion over the weekend about her tweets regarding apec, the pro israel lobby. she got chastised for that by her own leadership and by a unanimous vote in the congress for which she voted for as well. then you had this exchange yesterday with elliott abrams. what do you make of this? >> it's a sign of how far the democrats have turned. in the case of israel and sympathy toward israel and the palestinians, dana, this is further evidence of the growing anti-israel movement in the grass r

cultural shifts in saudi arabia. the impact of israel's upcoming election and the withdrawal of u.s. troops from syria. from the washington institute for near east policy, this is just under an hour and a half. >> good afternoon. good afternoon, and welcome to the washington institute. i'm rob satlof, the director of the institute. this is our first major policy forum of the year and i'm delighted to welcome and you delighted to welcome people around the world watching on c-span and on live stream and on all the various ways in which one can watch washington institute events. thank you for joining us. if i could ask you to please make sure your phones are on mute, feel free to tweet as much as you like. but make no noise about it. i'm delighted that we can meet at a time when the federal government is now open. there is so much on the middle east agenda in 2019. it's good to have a government that's focused on that. i'm delighted to be joined on this panel, to be introducing a panel of three of my colleagues, two of whom have made journeys around the world in recent days, coming bac

something from israel they've just given a reaction in the last few minutes the acting foreign minister israel counts now he has said that this is the theater of the absurd is a report based on unverified information aim is to tarnish the reputation of israel and to harm is ability to defend itself from terrorist organizations the problem for israel has always been that he's been accused of using force way out of proportion to the threat faced now i've been to some of these protests in garza the overwhelming majority of protesters on the garza side the palestinians there are unarmed yes there are some throwing stones yes some in century kites have been sent over the border and very occasionally a couple of armed people have been found there but israel's response which isn't to use snipers to shoot to kill or to shoot to maim people and these are life changing injuries many people losing limbs the accusation is that is out of it completely out of proportion and war crimes in fact the u.n. is saying so what happens now with these findings and. or. well what the un has said is tha

. international great to have you with us. and israel has been making headlines for weeks now ever since opposition leader one why don't declare him self interim president. just across the caribbean sea thousands of people there have been protesting in the haitian capital against economic hardship and as the mint and to give them demonstrators are demanding the president of the on the nation step down as being the violence looting and clashes with police of the last five days which have resulted in four deaths. i. was barry was really very little. because. the protests in haiti that have received a very different kind of reaction from washington than the ones in venezuela. explains. protests are turning deadly. crowd once the president to get the hell out of his office. they loathe his government for corruption for all kinds of cheating at the election . but enough that one of the nation's not just poor it's starving. people in the country running. everything that the massive population. considers to be like a bit of polling trivia from the poorest country in the caribbean the last presi

-- several weeks abroad in israel with other travels around the region. and at the far end of the table, i'm thrilled to be able to welcome for her first policy forum presentation here at the washington institute, my newest colleague, dana strul. dana joins the institute after service on capitol hill where she was the senior professional staff member on the senate foreign relations committee on the democratic side. previously she had as much as in the pentagon. and so knows both ends of the executive and legislative branches. and i'm thrilled that she is with us offering special insight not just on the traditional policy matters that our staff focuses on but also making sure that we fully understand and appreciate the complexities of capitol hill. so with that, i'll turn the floor over to barbara. barbara? >> thanks very much, rob. good afternoon, everyone. well, i might take issue with one of the things that you asked us to think about. but i'll wait until the end of my nine minutes to do so. i came back a week or so ago from 10 days in saudi arabia. and i wanted to give you just a sense of

omar correct apac and israel lobby have full control over congress people by wielding money aka benjamin's these recordings were captured for a documentary by al-jazeera called the israel lobby but then when they were pressured by a way for it the israeli lobby is they ultimately shelved the documentary they did not air it they were also threatened with being labeled foreign agents were already so. luckily the documentary leaked out of few months ago in this first clip you'll hear the voice of david pogue founder of of an organization that pays to send people to the apac conference. now that's a pro israel group admitting they manipulate congress with money but that's an anti-semitic trump. just because something is a troll doesn't mean it's always being talked about in that way as i don't like the hate crime like you like it may be an anti white people trope that white dude. but i doesn't mean you can't ever mention the word minutes without being racist. if i say john bolton is on how much of a. that's just factually accurate and later you know whether it's a trophy or not it's

boycott this year's competition big held in home country of israel. when you write from being shed you spread darkness. capernaum a lebanese movie about a young boy born into a world of extreme poverty is hot favorite for the foreign language. and giants of the renaissance a multimedia exhibition like seeing celebrating leonardo da vinci and his contemporaries. israeli sing and that's one of the euro vision song called shared with an anthem female empowerment cold toys now she's got a brand new single and she's been speaking out about this year's competition to be held in tel aviv in may speaking out because some office calling for a boycott citing israel's human rights record towards palestinians i'll be discussing this with my colleague david leavitt's in a minute but first the new song. being messy basim business savvy business of a must have a muslim about the business everybody from a lot. of other means like all right so i take the obstacles in my life i think the obstacles of this year and i faced them with with all right let's do this like you see him leaving me and i'm like ri

. women. as strong warning from iran aid says there is a great risk of conflict with israel. watching al-jazeera live from doha also ahead israel implements a controversial law that penalizes the palestinian authority for supporting the families of jails palestinians the u.s. special representative for syria says the withdrawal of troops will be done in an orderly way and in consultation with allies. the saudi crown prince arrives. on a regional tor designed to see investment deals and beast relationships with asia. thank you for joining us a three day security conference in germany has ended with the foreign minister warning world leaders that there is a heightened risk of war with israel mama jobs are eve says israel's actions and those of the u.s. are increasing the chances of a new conflict in the region highly for some unique. on the third and final day of the munich security conference it was iran's turn to talk about the challenges facing peace and stability around the world its foreign minister david zarif telling leaders it was american and israeli policies that threatened inter

interaction with the israelelis as possibible. >> many israelis don't wwant t know abobout paltinians. they don't't want to rreach ou they don't want to cross into streets anand neighborhohoods the palelestinians live because of a mixture of stereotypes and so on. >> so we decided to go together to visit each other's neighborhoods. and i would talk to israelis and david would talk to palestinians, and together we would face the harsh realities of our shared land. >> growing up in the 1960's, the palestinians just weren't in the head of anyone. palestinians were different. we knew we had property and it was taken away from us by force. i remember distinctly remembering that this was the wall that separated the east and west jerusalem. and this was no man's land here. >> my family lived in jerusalem for centuries. in 1948 the state was pounded, and for the palestinians this time was called the catastrophe. like many palestinians, my father and his entire family were pushed out of their ancestral home. they moved to a small apartment in east jerusalem because the city was divided into a jewish

will continue. israel's attorney general says he plans to indict prime minister benjamin netanyahu. and after days of violence over kashmir india and pakistan to lower attention. much of the world has turned against nicolas maduro but he still has powerful allies in his bid to stay in charge as venezuela's president a u.s. led vote calling for a free and fair elections in that israel has failed at the u.n. security council the draft included a push to get an aid which has been blocked at the border by venezuela's military but russia and china vetoed the move while south africa also very set against it a separate call from russia for a political solution to the crisis failed as well meanwhile then israel is opposition leader is still out of the country building support among south american neighbors brazil's president also now reinforced his backing of asked amusing and brasilia says he'll travel to paraguayan friday before returning to venezuela despite threats. well let's go to kristen sumi at the united nations kristen the security council has met on venezuela three times in just

east to promote a plan for israel and palestine where the company middle east envoy jason green blatt on a week long tour. the u.s. delegation expected to focus on economic issues but the details of any peace plan have not been made public the administration says it will reveal reveal that off the israeli elections in april prime minister benjamin netanyahu is looking to win another term as head of israel's government but he's facing allegations of corruption in israel palestinians cut off talks in twenty seventeen after the u.s. recognized jerusalem as the capital of israel and it overturned decades of u.s. policy an international consensus that this issue should be resolved at the end of talks the palestinians want an independent state based on borders before the one nine hundred sixty seven war with east jerusalem as its capital that would mean an end to the occupation in the west bank and gaza but israel has kept up construction of settlements they're going to talk more about this now with a senior political analyst marwan bashar so. he's going there to talk about this peace

as. no longer feel safe in their country part of his family already left for israel now dinny is wondering if he should follow in their footsteps. in this neighborhood north of paris where many jews lived in need local mall makes his home. he has a company that appraises real estate here his children grew up here. but he says it's just a matter of time before he emigrated to israel he's one of many observant jews concerned about the rise of anti-semitism in france he's already sent three of his children to school in israel. there's a school just opposite so it was stupid to send our children to a private school a long way away. but we made this choice because we didn't want to send them to a state school where they would have been the targets of mockery and stigmatization . best case scenario. within our social circle to have been some cases of violence it was just too difficult. to multi ethnic district of bellville in paris its residents include jews muslims and people of other religions last year the jewish pensioner sara halimi was murdered on a side street an immigrant from

g.o.p. was threatening punishment for omar's criticisms of israel then representative omar responded by saying it's all about the benjamins baby. now if anti-semitism is all you have on the brain and you're already prejudiced against non white women then you go now on o. was using anti-semitic troops and she must apologize and once he apologizes there will not be and. which is what pete. paul did and it's what the media did here is joe scarborough this is this was sort of distressing to say the least her apology was to stress and. i hope she takes another swing at it and is is we're on the quizzical in her apology but yeah i support the blowing up of civilians with our bombs every chance i get but this tweet stating there's money in politics was beyond the pale. oh more negs to clarify that she's not an eight pack the israeli lobbying group then half of congress and even donald trump himself responded to that they were horrified by this use of anti-semitic tropes let's focus on the fact that if you're a rational human it's easy to see omar was not being anti-semitic and i can be conside

to come in the region. topics include cultural shifts in saudi arabia, israel upcoming elections, congressional foreign-policy priorities, and the withdrawal of u.s. troops from syria. this washington institute event runs about one hour 20 minutes. >> good afternoon. good afternoon and welcome to the washington institute, i am the director of the institute policy our first major forum of the year and i am glad to welcome you and people around andworld watching on c-span on livestream and the various ways in which one can watch washington institute defense. thank you for joining us. if i could ask you to please make sure your phones are on mute, feel free to tweet as much as you like but make no noise i am delighted that we can meet at a time when the federal government is open. there is so much on the middle east agenda and 2019. it is good to have a government that is focused on that. joined onhted to be this panel, to be introducing a panel of three of my colleagues, two of whom have made journeys around the world in recent days, coming back to report for what they have observe

against the legislation because of a provision opposing those to seek to sanction israel also known as the bds movement. they oppose boycotting israel. now that bill go to the house of representatives fishers in what has historically been the democratic party's for the jewish state. >> in just one month in office the first muslim women to ever serve in the house they have become lightning rods over israel. statements criticizing the jewish state but also revealing new internal divides in the democratic party. to protect israel forgot what country they represent. a comment critics said revealed the age old attack on jews as having loyalty forcing her the clarify her remarks. she compared israel to iran and tweeted about the evil doings of israel saying it has hypnotized the world, comments she recently disavowed. both are among the only lawmakers to in sanction movement or bds which seeks to impose. diverging widely from gop support of israel. speaking today an immigrant that came 23 years ago said all faiths should be respected. >> i know how it feels to be hated because of my religiou

office calling for a boycott citing israel's human rights record towards palestinians i'll be discussing this with my colleague david leavitt's in a minute but first the new song. being messy basim business savvy business of obama must have been mostly about the business i mean buses from a lot. of other means like i so i take the obstacles in my life i think the obstacles of this year and i faced them with some with all right let's do this like you see him leaving me and i'm like how i. met his distinctive style and music have into both founds and critics and the song . is about tackling challenges head on since she one nasty is your vision song contest in lisbon you. get. a victory with this song toy change tone i think. one hundred eighty degrees different i was a bruise artist singing and basements and i did my duper stuff at home. whoever. who i wouldn't have been mentioned in in twelve months. to become that. know when and israel the right to host the sea as you envision for the first time in twenty years the grand finale will be hosted in tel aviv instead of the interna

further away will israel and palestine be locked in conflict for ever well i ask mohamed to stay in president mahmoud abbas's advisor. with yet another american leader trying to find a solution to the israeli palestinian conflict the parties remain bogged down by a beautiful stalling accusations as hopes for peace continue to fade where might a breakthrough come from to move the process along is there a chance of compromise with both sides entrenched in politics and grudges how can the international actors help result of this century long quarrel. mohamed hysteria adviser to president mahmoud abbas welcome to the show it's really great to have you with us today so mr a stay as united states host of the middle east conference and war so the palestinian side was invited to take part in this question of the arab israeli tensions how science foreign ministry called to some it's an american conspiracy aimed at getting the participants to adopt washington's views on palestinian issue so did palestine by boycotting it is actively throw in the towel without citing i mean where you that sure

doha. coming up in the next sixty minutes setback for benjamin netanyahu israel's attorney general decides to end him on charges of corruption north korea's foreign minister says his country made a realistic proposal on nuclear disarmament during this summit between donald trump and kim jong il and. it was a very productive two days but sometimes you have to walk but trump blames north korea's unacceptable demands for the failure to reach a nuclear deal. gesture for peace says prime minister iran pakistan announces it will release the captured indian pilot on friday i'm joined again with the sports and now the english premier league manager gets the boot. back now do you have any area. hello israel's attorney general says he intends to indict prime minister benjamin netanyahu for bribery fraud and breach of trust his recommendation is based on a two year investigation by the police into three separate corruption cases netanyahu denies any wrongdoing while his party is calling it political persecution ahead of april's election it's the first time a sitting prime minister has been ch

initiative in israel palestine to be supported by the arab world guess what there isn't much left in the arab world most of it is either in conflict or a tore two of it jordan and egypt already have peace agreements with israel and three or four of them will never have agreements with israel at this point in time like syria lebanon iraq and so on so forth so the only things left is the gulf countries so the gulf countries are not only standing and healthy they're also wealthy and i think that in company wants to use the gulf countries as as cow cash or cash cow if you will in order to finance their new economics of peace and there's a much talked about donald trump's grand plan for peace in our time in the middle east but are they likely to reveal any details about this plan no it doesn't seem like most of the background reports are there they're not in fact the last two years we've been teased about it nonstop but it's been going on for two years two years trickle trickle trickle but nothing serious and now we're told not and not until after the israeli actions meaning until may of this