With Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu set to address the Center for American Progress (CAP) Tuesday afternoon, progressive groups and figures—as well as its own staff—
are expressing outrage that the influential, Clinton-tied think tank would provide a platform to a proven enemy of human rights and peace.
Organizations including the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation picketed the institution on Tuesday morning and plan to return just before Netanyahu’s afternoon speaking engagement.
“We believe very strongly that a policy institute that calls itself progressive should not be providing space for the Israeli prime minister to spread his message of hatred, racism, and apartheid towards the Palestinian people,” Josh Ruebner, policy director for the U.S. Campaign, told Common Dreams.