Minnesota State Representative Betty McCollum penned a letter to President Barack Obama, on April 28, pushing him to instate a Special Envoy for Palestinian Children.

The Obama Administration criticized Israel, as well as the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Hamas, in the 2015 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. The State Department’s 40th annual review was released by Secretary of State John Kerry last week.

Bernie Sanders’ campaign has suspended its national Jewish outreach coordinator just two days after hiring her because of a 2015 Facebook post criticizing Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. 

The United States has begun to enforce a long dormant policy which requires that all products sourced from occupied territories in Palestine be labeled as “West Bank” and or “Gaza Strip,” according to a message released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection Jan. 23.

Earlier this month, U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Dan Shapiro, criticized Israel’s settlement policies and suggested Israel employs “two standards” of law in the West Bank, during his speech at the ninth annual International Conference of the Institute of National Security Studies in Tel Aviv.

A memorandum released by Palestine Legal, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and the New York branch of the National Lawyers Guild, opposes two anti-boycott bills currently in the New York state legislature.

Last Friday, a groups of protesters at the Creating Change Conference in Chicago called for the organizers and the National LGBTQ Task Force to be accountable following their decision to allow a reception sponsored by a Zionist organization—A Wider Bridge.

United States Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) received a $960,250 donation from a pro-Israel advocacy group, then spearheaded the signing of an open letter written in opposition of the Iran deal. The payoff has raised allegations that the senator was bribed to sabotage the deal.

Last December, a group of  U.S. citizens filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Treasury, which alleges that 150 non-profit groups illegally sent $180 billion in aid to the Israeli army and Illegal settlements in Palestine.

The Obama administration continues to be criticized in the wake a Wall Street Journal report, which alleges that the Administration spied on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu while the U.S. negotiated the nuclear deal with Iran.

This year, the Israeli Embassy in the U.S. decided to send out holiday gifts comprised entirely of products made in the illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Golan Heights.

For some time, Ohio has been notorious in the Midwest as a hotbed for anti-Zionism.