This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-Changing Christians.

To receive the Daily article directly to your email inbox each weekday morning, visit thedailyarticle.com.

Now here's today's news, discerned differently.

Here's the article I wish I were writing today. The daughter of Palestinian

immigrants is elected to the United States Congress, shining a light on the significance

of Palestinian people everywhere. She returns to the West Bank to visit her elderly grandmother

and to inspire the Palestinians with her example of hard work and success.

But here's the narrative I am required by the facts to write instead.

Rashida Talib serves in the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan's 13th district.

Before her election to Congress, she was the first Muslim woman to serve in the Michigan State Legislature.

Representative Talib has been extremely critical of Israel. She is called for an end to U.S. aid to

Israel and expressed support for the boycott, divestment, and sanctions program. This is a Palestinian-led

campaign promoting boycotts against Israel, the divesting

of investments in the state of Israel, and sanctions against the Israeli government. After dozens

of lawmakers participated in a congressional delegation to Israel, Representative Talib and her

colleague and fellow Muslim, Representative Ilan Omar, decided to make their own

trip. It was planned by Mifta, a group the Washington Post and the New York Times described

as headed by a longtime peace negotiator and working to promote global awareness and knowledge of

Palestinian realities. However, as David French notes in the National Review,

Mifta is actually an anti-Semitic organization that frequently produces vitriolic, hateful rhetoric.

For instance, it published a neo-Nazi treatise condemning the Jew-controlled entertainment media

and claiming that, to permit the Jews, with their 3,000-year history of

...