Please watch the AIPAC-produced videos with Rep. Scholten, which promotes Israeli propaganda

GRIID has been writing about Rep. Hillary Scholten’s unconditional support for Israel ever since the Hamas attacks in early October. 

On October 17, I posted an article entitled, Rep. Scholten endorses Israeli War Crimes in Gaza, which focused on her endorsement of increased US military funding for Israel, while Israel was carpet bombing Gaza.

This past Tuesday, I posted another article with the headline, Rep. Hillary Scholten continues to perpetuate misinformation about Israel/Palestine, along with refusing to acknowledge the decades long Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands. 

Earlier this summer, Rep. Scholten voted for a Congressional Resolution, stating that Israel is not an Apartheid state. I wrote about that vote, along with a note about Rep. Scholten’s upcoming visit to Israel.

What I didn’t know at the time of the 3rd Congressional District Representative, is that her trip was sponsored by the American Israel Education Foundation, which is a funding source for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the largest pro-Israel lobby in the US. 

Here is a video produced by AIPAC about the trip that Rep. Scholten took this summer. The video is clearly a propaganda piece, which not only is designed to further the mission of AIPAC, but it also feeds into the Far Right Christian belief that the State of Israel can do no wrong. 

In a second AIPAC-produced video, Rep. Scholten gushes about being in the same physical space where Jesus gave his Sermon on the Mount. Rep. Scholten talks about reading the Beatitudes to her classmates, those who were on the same AIPAC constructed trip. 

The question I have for Rep. Scholten and her supporters is, if you are a believer in the Beatitudes, then how do you justify the decades long US support for the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land and the decades-long US military funding of Israeli, funding that results in the murder of countless civilians, like what we are currently seeing in Gaza? 

The Christian Beatitudes speak of those who mourn, show mercy and practice peacemaking, so how the hell can anyone who embraces these values be ok with the brutal Israeli assault on Gaza, where Amnesty International says there is damning evidence of Israeli War Crimes and a death toll of 6,500.

If this sort of hypocrisy pisses you off, then you might consider participating in the rally/march this Saturday, beginning at 2pm in downtown Grand Rapids, where people are calling for an end to US Military Aid for Israel and an end to the Genocide in Gaza.

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