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Rep. Torres accuses U.S. airlines of ‘effectively boycotting’ Israel
Torres: ‘To unilaterally suspend air travel indefinitely until mid-2025, as American Airlines has done, has the practical effect of a boycott’
Representative Ritchie Torres, a Democrat from New York, speaks at a House Financial Services Committee hearing (Photo by Al Drago-Pool/Getty Images)
Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) is urging U.S. airlines to reconsider their prolonged suspensions of flights to Israel “in order to prevent the appearance and the substance of discrimination against the Jewish State.”
Torres, who serves on the House...