difference between criticizing the actions of the state of israel and criticizing israel itself and did way that those laws that my core is going to try to push through it's going to be have to be quite clear that is a separation between that which is why as your previous and speaker was saying the quest as a definition is very very key here and we have a how do you see that i mean it is a very blurry line really at this particular moment how you know a desert in point also europeans can start being a bit scared oh my god if i open my mouth or criticize a israel's prime minister i might be accused of being add to sematic because at this sort of point you can use these blanket definitions over everything so how do you think that should be finessed if i can say is that would. i actually support to some of these legends that are intended to ban hate speech or or public expression of hate for it and in several cases it really works now when it comes to anti-semitism there has been some phantom time for example a polish government tried to ban criticism of poland recently the famous holocaus

crimes order to build an image of israel within the minds of so many young jews. to establish a politic. within their minds about what israel stands for and i think that is absolutely correct let me just add anything to sign for let me just add this because we actually spoke to tackling the flight they sent us a statement for this conversation a couple of things that they noted have a look here on a laptop my laptop here welcoming feedback from participants on ways our educational programming can be enhanced but then skipping to this current trend of disrupting tours we want to tolerate political activist groups leveraging our platform to generate publicity for their courses i'm not sure what that lack of toleration actually means for the future we have a little bit of time left i want to give it to the community really care about this live from ryan on you tube he says why not just make a free trip that includes palestine and addresses the injustices face i think more people would be open to it especially the younger generations i'm going to give this one to you

israel was given that land and the day israel was born arab nations attacked israel in the heart of the arab nations, many of them haven't recognized israel's right to exist. that's something the democrats don't talk about or have forgotten about. paul: you're saying the democratic leadership, even though they condemned omar's remarks, is responsible for not leading on the issue itself enough and expressing their support he vocally enough for israel? >> the democrat leadership is squeezed. i think there are many democratic leaders, steny hoyer who is still a strong supporter of israel but you can't have the grass roots be so anti-israel without it eventually weakening the leaders, without it eventually electing congressmen and women who reflect the grass roots as in the case of ilhan omar. don't forget at barack obama convention, that removed the statement that jerusalem was the capital of israel. when they discovered it was removed, they tried to putt it back on the floor and they were met with boos on the floor and sounds like the grass root democrats objected to put it back. they kne

if israel fulfills that, who was there? and israel does not want to say. you probably do not want to test the proposition, especially during an election period where the prime minister is going to be criticized if he does not do enough. on the other hand, you might probe to see what the thresholds are, and in the case of prime minister netanyahu, on the one hand he wants to convey a very tough rhetorical posture that he hopes will be convincing so that it deters anything from happening, weather in gaza or if in gaza or ifs it happens in the northern front, and in both cases, the last thing he probably wants is to have a conflict that is unlikely to be decisive. and is not easy to bring to a conclusion. and there clearly are hints from from hezbollah and the iranians that all the resistance would be involved. just in gaza alone, would that really mean that nothing would be happening on the northern front? hamas now has people in southern lebanon. all sides' real allies, it is -- all sides realize it is not in their interest to have a conflict. and as we hav

many christians also support the interests of israel how strong would you say the pro israel lobby is. well i'm not sure how many israeli jews are in america you know really. having an influence any influence whatsoever but i know that down in d.c. on k. street you've got a few competing lobby groups against a pac that are like j. street you know jews for palestine or whatever that are really splitting the two percent of jews in america you know the fractions that have an opinion on this so. i'm not really sure that there's you know any kind of. dominating i don't know if you're talking about so you know we'll see reaction to the congresswoman being forced to apologize have to say that the process where they lobby was it's a powerful thing that was appropriate well it's mostly you know also taste and coming from her i mean democrats a bad week you know with a black face handles and kind of things so it's easy to to to understand you know where the criticism criticism is coming from i personally went against a path back in two thousand and fifteen with the softening terrorism on capito

and jews identifying strongly with israel, and israel itself. for many, these concepts have been come to be viewed by many as polar opposites. i am going to say a few words about this, because it will give you a sense of the context of the moment we are in and why he wanted to explore this history and explain to myself and all of us how we got here and what the story is really about. on parts of the left, i would make a full disclaimer, i would say parts of the left. there is an idea that zionism is viewed at its best as a tribalism and at its worst is a form of racism. israel is demonized in certain circles as a rogue regime. it is linked to demonic ideologies, so on and so forth. more specifically, many of you may be aware, in england today, the labor party is debating whether attacks by its leadership on israel constitute anti-semitism or simply a political critique. in this country, starbucks recently partnered with the anti-defamation league to deal with bias and the idea was to do sensitivity training in terms of racial bias, because of an

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 to talk us through the extent of the

to jews and israel and then i will vote on house resolution seventy two to condemn israel and anti semitic hate infiltrating u.s. politics college campuses and halls of congress democratic leaders have condemned to hell more for use of anti semitic troops and prejudicial accusations about israel's supporters a couple of jewish democratic congressmen even wrote a letter to the party's leadership asking them to join in on the outreach and benjamin's were no doubt involved there one of the letter signers received over one hundred thirty thousand dollars from the israel lobby in twenty eighteen in total apac spent three and a half million lobbying politicians last year and in the end omar had. to apologize but she's not alone in washington pro israel democrats are having none of it some are forming a faction within the party for those with seemingly undying loyalty to israel twenty twenty is only a year away and parties are already preparing for the electoral battle there are sure to be plenty of topics to debate but like every other presidential election it's likely that the criticism of isra

israel back to progressive communities. in. the united states and must that germany's call for nato to be strengthened because if he puts it russia is on the doorstep of his own to speak to all of the reports now his comments on recent threats of sanctions against europe and would go down well. washington's man in berlin and bust of the richard grinnell is being handing out advice left and right to chancellor angela merkel over which direction she should stay in her country in the latest polls of wisdom that she should spend more money on weapons and that germany should use its energy connections with russia to put pressure on moscow the germans have the leverage with russia imagine if chancellor merkel stood up and said because of the russian behavior because of the malign activity and the increased offense we cannot give you more influence by buying your energy nolde stream to his top of the u.s. hit list when it comes to joint german russian projects that the u.s. isn't keen on with washington saying it doesn't want to becom

they cannott cross into israel for work or to go to the west bank. and the only exist is through egypt where people spend days at the border. >> i felt like i left to go to another country, you know? >> you went to another country. >> so you think i did the right thing? >> oh, forget it. >> forget it? >> yeah. >> theyey'll lynch you. you know? because they don't have too many trees. i don't know where they'll handing you from. >> i'm'm always eager to come here because this is my home. and then when i go back, i take with me a lot of guilt leaving these people behind. >> when are we going to get to the humane level? people should be incensed. not just the palestinians. we should fight arabs and jews to preserve that. >> my opinion is that both sides, people are tired, fatigued and brainwashed and they will not reeble in a way that they would march? the streets. people are saying i care about my four corners and my garden, and it's out of my control and i don't see this rebellion happening. >> clearly i'm the optimist of 2002 of us. in fact, i believe

it's a new country like israel but your vision song contest is bound to become pretty cold. it is indeed but before we talk about politics david leavitt's is here with me before we talk about politics what do you think of the new self let me just say in general i think i think it's great that she's so confident in her message that she's back for more she's ready to show the world that she's not just a one hit wonder and that is really different from most pop stars her sound is different she looks different a lot of people have tried to shame her for that so good for her for sticking with it and i think that's really going to resonate with so many young people who need alternative role models now let's talk about this video for a second the song is actually inspired by her childhood growing up in nigeria that's where she got this rhinoceros horn theme from. and the rhino is of course also a symbol for thick skin and perseverance i do love the car as well as. all the videos a lot of fun the competition is meant to be a politico in fact is one of the rules it looks is going to

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 reports now from west jerusalem. he is the first sitting israeli prime minister to be cha

and human rights and israel. what is this? late christmas eve 1959 two men in the german city of colone defaced a synagogue. they drew swastikas on the side, doused the building with black, red and white paint and then they scrawled an anti-semitic slogan that you can't see in this picture, but it was out with the jews. if this had happened there might have been a newspaper story and it might have blown over. what happened over the next five days swastikas appear on synagogues all across west germany and the words with them are straight out of the 1930s, mile hitler, jews go home, death to the jews. over the next week the swastikas spread, they are in vienna, bairs, new york, other cities in the united states. on january 6th vandals defaced a statue of fdr in oslo, new york, with the painted caption, post dam jewish peddler. things continue to spread. then it's in east germany, latin america, australia, hong kong, algeria, south africa. meanwhile, in west germany 20 days straight swastikas are appearing all over the place. by

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 considered an

the international criminal court now israel is not a member of the i.c.c. but member countries arrest warrants can be issued by the i.c.c. the member countries must all or so for example should one of these commanders or snipers travel to european country for example they face the risk of arrest then a thank you very much that is ben smith with the latest live and west jerusalem thank you and a few moments we'll have the weather with rob but still ahead on the news hour we'll tell you why naked eye was opposition in exile skeptical about a dominant chord for national dialogue. running for their lives dozens of casualties after a high speed train crash in egypt and coming up in sports there's a big one for the bad boy of tennis the. next. hour now here is some pictures you should not see in february in whispering gore were more specifically. in kolkata it shouldn't rain in february can happily rain in june or july or august but this time of year you don't get to see that bangladesh maybe should be the same thing but you can have these pics in just the same p

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 presidential election had to be rerun after c

of point also europeans can start being a bit scared oh my god if i open my mouth or i criticize israel's prime minister i might be. accused of being aggy sematic because at this sort of point you can use these blanket definitions over everything so how do you think that should be finessed if i can say that would. i actually support some of these legends that are intended to ban hate speech or or public expression of hate for it and that in several cases it really works now when it comes to anti-semitism there has been something to time for example a polish government tried to ban criticism of poland recently the famous holocaust low which led to the to the pressure to suppress some forms of open expression of it's a criticism about the behavior of ulster in the past towards us and so so you know there are some nuances here of course but what i really think is really crucial is the role of the leaders and the role of political leaders after the attack on the french philosopher i don't think a quote. amount of micro expressed very openly that there is no place for anti-semitism in france n

so israel. has a bigger effect on what happens in the united states and as part of the general move to. roll back civil liberties and the freedom of right of freedom of speech in united states they are trying to make it illegal to criticize israel at this time. the u.s. ambassador to germany has called for nato to be strengthened because as he puts it russia is on the doorstep but as peter oliver reports his comments and recent threats of sanctions against europe have not gone down well. washington's man in berlin ambassador richard grinnell is being handing out advice left and right to chancellor angela merkel over which direction she should stay or her country in the latest polls of wisdom that she should spend more money on weapons and that germany should use its energy connections with russia to put pressure on moscow the germans have the leverage with russia imagine if chancellor merkel stood up and said because of the russian behavior because of the malign activity and increased offense we

they are pro israel.reful in the language, right? if they were no christians in america, aipac would have almost nowhere near the same amount of power. >> okay. let me bring peter in. you obviously wrote a very different opinion. and in your tweet -- sorry, your titled, ilhan omar is not an anti-semitic and you wrote, the problem is all lobebies use money. so unless you want to deny there even is an israel lobby, it can't be off limits to point out it works in secret and uses money to bring out policy. so how -- are you getting the same -- from the same tweet a very completely different conclusion? >> i think her tweet was accurate and not anti-semitic. and it was not that different from tom friedman, who is a big israel supporter who when benjamin netanyahu spoke in front of congress, said, this speech was bought and paid for by the israel lobby. now, the "wall street journal" this week reported that aipac raises and spends $100 million on its lobbying efforts that are not direct contributions to candida

but here's the thing recently revealed undercover recordings have proven 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 fact

in the case of israel and sympathy toward israel and the palestinians, dana, this is further evidencef the growing anti-israel movement in the grass roots of the democratic party. in 2001, there was a poll by pew. it asked do you sympathize more with israelis or palestinians? 55% of republicans said they sympathized with israel. 38% of democrats said they sympathize with israel. 12 point gap. today that gap is 52 points. 79% of republicans sympathize with israel more than the palestinians. only 27% of democrats seupl pa thaoeudz more with israel. democratic party at its grass roots is walking away from support for israel. she's representative of it. >> dana: why do you think that is? has that been because of certain pr efforts against israel or is there something else happening? >> i just think the democrats have lost the ability to say israel is america's ally in the middle east, that israel is the only democracy in the middle east. they just kind of lump israel with all the other nations they don't like these days. they just dismiss all the progress, the democracy, the gay rights, e

it will question israel to provide support. . i would suggest to my friends that they rethink whether the war powers resolution should or even can be used in this way. with that i urge opposition to the rule and the underlying legislation, madam speaker, and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from massachusetts. depovegove madam speaker, just so there is -- mr. mcgovern: madam speaker, just so there's no misunderstanding, it is written, section 3, nothing in this joint resolution may be construed to influence, disrupt any military operations or cooperation with israel. it's written here for everybody to see. secondly, you know, my good friend talked about consequences of moving this legislation forward. well, let me tell you what the consequences of mott moving this resolution forward -- not moving this resolution forward. it means we are totally content to sit back and say nothing and not admit that our government has its fingerprints all over one of the worst humanit

israel. when you boy light from being shed you spread darkness. capernaum 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 in leipzig celebrating leonardo da vinci and his contemporaries. israeli sing and that's one the eurovision song contest last year with an anthem of female empowerment cold toyin 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 i'll be boss of about the most of the most about the business i mean by some 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 with all right let's do this like you see him leaving me and i'm like oh right. and that's h

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 conducting a

notion of some arab israeli alliance against iran now it's important for any american 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

there is no sense of safety and israel. life in israel is a permanent war. in fact, that is one of the first things he said to me when i met him. life is a permanent war. then, thatondert just as he has flashbacks, so does his country. every time that israel goes to war, the whole community becomes sort of immersed in memories of the holocaust. during the sinai war, the six-day war, the yom kippur war, all of these were accompanied by an atmosphere of more or less existential panic. his982, he justified invasion of lebanon by saying that the alternative to this operation is treblinka. even today, benjamin netanyahu is telling his people that they are about to be annihilated. now, you know, we can argue about how much of this is political rhetoric, but we cannot argue with a very real fear that lies behind it. just as he has recycled his past again and again and again, so israel as a nation has done the same. in holocaust is always there the background, whether they like it or not. if not always israel that experiences these communal flashbacks to the war. sa

says israel's actions and those of the u.s. are increasing the chances of a new conflict in the region tamara trail has more from munich. 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 international security and not those of his government we have long been the target of an unhealthy fixation let's say an obsession. which continues to this very day the demonisation of my country has been a convenient cross for seven consecutive american presidents to bed yesterday right here in munich. mr pence repeated the scars. then he added again to be demanded that europe must join the united states in undermining its own security and breaking a topic h. one of the main discussions at the conference was about the two thousand and fifteen iran nuclear deal and even though the us on the president donald trump has withdrawn from it senior

they oppose boycotting israel.he 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 religious beliefs. i am proof as americans we can embrace our differences. >> h

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

he's innocent these supporters are saying in israel most of the media. the left wing. has been using this to sway the voters of the likud that is. haunting him and want to. redeem him they want to go. to him and netanyahu must now pay for his army of lawyers. out of his own pocket the government accountants of audit the prime minister to repay three hundred thousand pounds given by wealthy cousin towards his legal fees they noted that netanyahu is an affluent mom for israel estimate his wealth at around forty million dollars and will bring in bernard his joining us from was as we're hearing in your report netanyahu denies the charges were heard and we're expecting him to speak in just a couple of minutes time yeah he's going to be speaking on prime time israeli television everybody is poised to listen to what he has to say but we know essentially what he's going to say that he's innocent that he's being set up he's played this role of the underdog he says everybody's out to get in the liberal left wing media he's attacked for trying to unseat him so it will be the same

hello i'm maryam namazie this is the news hour live from london coming up in the next sixty minutes israel's prime minister dismisses a decision to indict him on corruption charges as a political witch hunt this is the u.n. says israeli forces might have committed war crimes in that crackdown on palestinians protesting in gaza also. they want the sanctions you have to. endure in turkey and 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 and of pakistan pledges to release a captured indian pilots as a peace gesture to ease tensions over kashmir. i'm joined again with the sports another english premier league manager gets the boot as follow him sack ready ery. 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 netanyahu 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 al jazeera has been

sophie shevardnadze interest intentions are moving the middle eastern peace even 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