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Hakeem Jeffries

July 2024

  • Top congressional Democrats Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries endorse Kamala Harris – video

  • a man in a suit speaks into a microphone

    Democrats face pressure to reveal if they back Biden as Congress reconvenes

June 2024

  • Benjamin Netanyahu<br>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a ceremony at the Nahalat Yitshak Cemetery in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, June 18, 2024. The ceremony marked the annual memorial for people killed in Israel’s Altalena affair -- a violent clash between rival Jewish forces that nearly pushed the newly independent Israel into civil war in 1948. (Shaul Golan/Pool Photo via AP)

    US Congress faces growing calls to withdraw Netanyahu invitation: ‘a terrible mistake’

    Notable Israelis add their voices to oppose invite extended by Mike Johnson, which Democrats plan to boycott

April 2024

  • House speaker Mike Johnson in Washington DC on 21 March 2024. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene attends a house hearing in Washington DC on 20 March 2024.

    Democrats vow to block Marjorie Taylor Greene effort to remove House speaker

    Minority leader Hakeem Jeffries says far-right Georgia congresswoman’s motion to oust Mike Johnson ‘will not succeed’

March 2024

  • Middle-aged white man with tortoiseshell glasses and gray coiffed hair and red tie speakers and gestures with both hands held before him.

    US Congress averts shutdown but the deadlock remains over Ukraine aid

    House Republicans continue to block bipartisan Senate agreements on foreign aid and immigration

February 2024

  • man with reddish glasses and gray hair wears a suit with a red tie

    Democrats will protect Mike Johnson over Ukraine aid vote, Jeffries suggests

    Hakeem Jeffries tells NYT ‘a reasonable number’ of Democrats would vote to save speaker if vote resulted in Republican mutiny

December 2023

  • The House minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries

    Hakeem Jeffries singles out Republican ‘pro-Putin caucus’ opposing Ukraine aid

    House Democratic leader claims ‘loud and growing’ movement of Republican extremists want Russian leader to win war

November 2023

  • Overhead view of daylight crowd of people wearing mostly white and blue alongside rows of denuded winter trees, with US Capitol beyond.

    ‘No ceasefire!’: tens of thousands march for Israel in Washington DC

    Speakers from Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer to Republican House speaker Mike Johnson greeted crowds

October 2023

  • Protesters in Washington DC on 20 October demand an Israeli ceasefire in Gaza.

    Left revolts over Biden’s staunch support of Israel amid Gaza crisis

  • Middle-aged white man in yellow tie and suit looking grim between two white men looking down

    What to know about the US House speaker election

  • Hakeem Jeffries walks to a democratic caucus meeting to nominate a House speaker candidate in Washington DC on 10 October.

    Hakeem Jeffries seeks bipartisan path in House to avoid ‘extremist’ power

  • Hakeem Jeffries<br>House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries of N.Y., departs after speaking at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, July 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

    Democratic unity strikes contrast to Republican chaos as McCarthy exits

July 2023

  • Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib all pledged to skip Israel president Isaac ‘Bougie’ Herzog’s address to a joint session of Congress.

    Progressive Democrats protest Israeli president’s address to US Congress

    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib say they intend to boycott address due to Israel’s treatment of Palestinians

February 2023

  • GUATEMALA-OAS-HUMAN RIGHTS-REPORT-CAVALLARO<br>The president of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights James Cavallaro speaks during the presentation of his annual report about the Human Rights situation in Guatemala at the f Culture Palace in Guatemala city on March 14, 2016. AFP PHOTO Johan ORDONEZ / AFP / JOHAN ORDONEZ (Photo credit should read JOHAN ORDONEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

    Biden drops candidate’s nomination to human rights post over Israel remarks

    Professor says his selection was dropped for describing Israel as an ‘apartheid state’ and accusing Jeffries of being ‘bought’ by Aipac
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