08.21.2019 - By The Intercept
Under pressure from President Donald Trump, Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, announced on Thursday thatReps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar would be barred entry to the Israeli-occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, Palestinian territories that the Muslim-American lawmakers planned to visit this weekend. Reports from Israel suggested that the decision was an abrupt reversal, taken only after theU.S.