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Dingell withdraws support for bill supporting Palestinian rights Congresswoman claims she is still dedicated to advocating for a two-solution state in Israel MAEVE O’BRIAN Daily Staff Reporter
U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., withdrew her support from a bill promoting human rights for Palestinian children last week. The bill, titled “Promoting Human Rights for Palestinian Children Living Under Israeli Military Occupation Act,” would require that funds from the U.S. “do not support military detention, interrogation, abuse, or ill-treatment of Palestinian children.” In an email statement to The Daily, Dingell wrote that she remains dedicated to advocating for a two-state solution in Israel. “We must be committed to promoting a peaceful, twostate solution that empowers Sudoku Syndication the Palestinian people to live
in dignity and security with Israel,” Dingell wrote. “That relies on policies that lay the groundwork for that goal and is why I’ve been strongly critical of unilateral moves that serve as an obstacle toward peace.” Dingell explained that after discussing with community members, she decided the bill was “ultimately counterproductive to a peaceful, two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.” Dingell, a Democrat, was originally elected in 2014, succeeding her recently late husband John Dingell. Her district covers parts of Ann Arbor, along with some of western metropolitan Detroit and Dearborn, an area with a significant Palestinian population and one of the
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largest Arab-American interrogation, abuse, or illtreatment of children in populations in the country. of international The bill, introduced in April, violation states its purpose is to promote humanitarian law.” The bill also allocates $19 human rights for Palestinian children living under Israeli million each year to nonorganizations military occupation. It has 21 governmental co-sponsors, including U.S. that either monitor human abuses associated Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., rights the first Palestinian-American with Israel’s treatment of Palestinian children or provide woman elected to Congress. According to the proposed health treatment to children legislation, between 500 and who have been detained. LSA senior Zayd Elkahlah 700 Palestinian children ages of 12 through 17 are detained said as a Palestinian, Dingell’s and prosecuted “before a withdrawal of support from military court system that the bill feels “wrong and lacks basic and fundamental weird” to her, given that it guarantees of due process pertains to the human rights of in violation of international Palestinian children. “You’re not choosing a side standards.” The bill claims such treatment of Palestinian here — kids don’t have a side, children is pertinent to they’re just kids,” Elkahlah Congress because it violates said. “I think she also said in http://sudokusyndication.com/sudoku/generator/print/ a tweet that she would never international law. Public Policy senior do action to harm Palestinian Arwa Gayar is an children, but at the same time, executive member of by her not acting, by not taking Students Allied for action, she is harming the Freedom and Equality, children.” While Gayar said she does a Palestinian solidarity organization on campus. not think Dingell will lose Gayar said she was people’s support in the 2020 surprised by Dingell’s election over this, she said she thinks it will give some people decision. “Debbie Dingell had a pause. “I think this hesitates some very progressive voting record on issues relating people on their support for to the Palestinian-Israeli her, and I think honestly a conf lict. She often is very lot of it is just wanting more and clarity reliable in supporting transparency issues that are supported in the process,” Gayar said. by Arab-Americans,” “I think a representative Gayar said. “I was democracy depends on that accountability and definitely surprised public when she withdrew I think decisions like this her support, especially where she’s not only citing because the bill itself is public engagement, but it also about promoting human demands public engagement rights for Palestinian from constituents are so important to make sure that children.” The bill would amend there’s transparency in that the Foreign Assistance process.” Act of 1961 to specify that no funds appropriated to another country could Read more at be used to support “the MichiganDaily.com military detention,
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