Protesters denounce Israeli PM Netanyahu’s speech to US Congress

For him, this is all about shoring up his support back home, which is one of the reasons I don't want to attend,

Senator Chris Van Hollen told reporters

One thing Netanyahu’s four speeches to Congress as premier have in common is that they were all made at the invitation of a Republican leadership on Capitol Hill and during the term of a Democratic president who had major policy differences with him,

Haaretz’s Anshel Pfeffer noted