Western New York deserves representatives who answer to their constituents, not to national lobbyists who bankroll campaigns and whisk lawmakers away on curated junkets. When Congressman Tim Kennedy accepts large checks from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and then travels on an AIPAC-funded trip to Israel, he does more than signal a foreign policy preference. He signals that access, not accountability, sets the agenda.

I traveled to the Occupied West Bank during the 2014 escalation. What I saw with my own eyes was a system of separate roads, checkpoints, and rules that would look intolerable to any American who believes in equal protection under the law.

Today, Palestinians are enduring mass displacement, devastating civilian casualties, and even the use of starvati

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