In a recent podcast, one of the men credited with former President Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential victory sounded off about the GOP’s Israel policies and left-wing activists’ plans to protest the Democratic National Convention in Chicago that began on Monday.
“The reason I suspect that most of these people describe themselves as pro-Israel is because the Jews are whiter than the Palestinians,” Democratic political consultant and strategist James Carville said of Republicans’ Israel positions near the end of the Aug. 15 episode of the podcast “Politics War Room.”
Carville told co-host Al Hunt amid repetitive curses during the program that “it’s really about the misogyny and the racism that drives the thing, and we got to recognize that. It’s not about any policy prescription.”
Relaying what an unnamed activist had told him, Carville said that anti-Israel protests at the DNC originated in the belief that Democrats “would be more open-minded about this.” However, he intoned, they are theoretically shooting themselves in the foot because, for the most part, they don’t gather en masse or pressure GOP campaign events.
Not a fan of these demonstrators, he said it hurts Harris, their own candidate: “I don’t get the logic, I don’t get the logic at all. I just don’t.”
