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The son of a Holocaust survivor, he has strongly opposed BDS, and condemned Palestinian terrorism and anti-Semitism, including within his own party.
Throughout his career, Joe Biden has been adamantly optimistic about the prospects for peace between Israelis and Palestinians, despite repeated Palestinian rejections over the years.
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He has favored a two-state solution between Israelis and Palestinians, and co-sponsored a bill that would have mandated the U.S. government to certify that military funding to Israel not be used for the “Israeli military’s ongoing detention and mistreatment of Palestinian children.”
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“Most people aren’t aware of the difference between what’s happening in Gaza—run by Hamas in a way that is contributing to a lot of misery there—but also totally different than an environment where you’d have a negotiating partner across the table.”
Since being elected to the House of Representatives in 2013, the California congressman has towed the party line on issues related to the U.S.-Israel alliance.
Amid concerns over anti-Semitism and erosion of support for Israel in the Democratic Party, a fledgling conservative group known as the Exodus Movement is seeking to appeal to young Jewish voters to switch allegiances ahead of the 2020 presidential election.
“He then went on to call asylum-seekers animals and an infestation,” said 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke. “Now we would not be surprised if in the Third Reich, other human beings were described as an infestation, as a cockroach or a pest that you would want to kill.”
He has also called for a two-state solution, encouraging the Israelis and Palestinians to return to the negotiating table.
“Since 2008, we have only had presidential candidates speaking in actual election years,” said the source.
This comes after the left-wing group MoveOn called on candidates to skip the event through conducting a survey among its members, in which 74 percent “agree or strongly agree” that “any progressive vying to be the Democratic nominee for president should skip the AIPAC conference,” said the organization in a statement.
“It’s sort of pushed on parents in many situations,” entrepreneur Andrew Yang, 44, told “The Daily Beast,” adding that it’s a “cultural onus” applied to families.
During his congressional tenure, the Texas House member largely followed his party’s stances when it came to Middle East issues, including support for the Iran nuclear deal, criticism of Israeli settlements and opposition to the embassy move from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
