U.S. Politics
“They see Jews as oppressors,” Doug Basler told JNS, accusing Kshama Sawant and another Democratic challenger of viewing Israel through a Marxist lens.
“Talk of a Palestinian state in the halls of Congress or the palaces of Europe is just wildly out of touch with the realities on the ground,” the former U.S. ambassador to Israel wrote in Congressional testimony.
The student, who declined to be named, said that “within College Democrats, I am afraid to tell people I am Jewish.”
One candidate said he’d learned to draw “moral lines” from Graham Platner on the subject of Israel and Gaza.
With Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez suspending her campaign, state Rep. Francesca Hong, a Democratic Socialists of America member with a record of anti-Israel activism, and former Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes have emerged as the Democratic Party’s leading candidates ahead of the Aug. 11 primary.
Rep. Jake Auchincloss accused President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu of breaking the compact underlying U.S. military assistance to Israel by launching the war against Iran.
“I want to maintain the dialogue and the conversation, because I think they need to work harder to try to figure out how to get more friends instead of creating more enemies,” the Washington Democrat said.
“The rules that they’ve been using to build these data centers were not intended for these kinds of data centers,” David Greenfield, of Met Council, told JNS. “Now they’re happening very frequently, and they’re having unintended consequences.”
The 15 still appear on the AIPAC website in a section about candidates it supports, but users are no longer offered links with which to donate to the candidates.
