U.S. Politics
Marie Newman, running in a primary against incumbent Democratic Rep. Dan Lipinski in the state’s 3rd Congressional District, lost to him by less than 3 percentage points in the 2018 Democratic primary.
For the last 16 years, a group has harassed congregants outside of Beth Israel Congregation and held signs saying “Jewish Power Corrupts,” “Zionism Is Racism” and “RESIST Jewish Power.”
AIPAC said “by engaging in such an odious attack on this mainstream, bipartisan American political event, Senator [Bernie] Sanders is insulting his very own colleagues and the millions of Americans who stand with Israel.”
Heerak Kim, who is running in Virginia’s 8th Congressional District, recently tweeted that the “FBI should investigate US politicians in both Republican and the Democratic party with ‘questionable’ ties with Israel,” among other social-media posts that have been deemed anti-Semitic.
“I’m always concerned when a discussion of who should be the next president of the United States doesn’t include a conversation about rising anti-Semitism or virtually anything about Middle East policy,” said former National Jewish Democratic Council head Aaron Keyak.
If the Democratic senators had the meeting, said U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, “I hope they were reinforcing America’s foreign policy, not their own.”
The Durham City Council voted in April 2018 to ban its police from engaging in international exchanges, where officers could receive “military-style training” in foreign countries.
One ad had a collage featuring Reps. Betty McCollum (D-Minn.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), saying, “The radicals in the Democratic Party are pushing their anti-Semitic and anti-Israel policies down the throats of the American people.”
Amid claims on the right that the social-media giant has been targeting right-wing accounts, Israel’s premier calls Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg to ask that he treat all parties equally ahead of the March 2 elections.
“I see everything through the lens of my Jewish upbringing, my Jewish values,” says the Illinois congressman.
After realizing that the far-right party cannot be convinced not to run in the March 2 elections, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his advisers decide to try to push it over the voting threshold.
“We offer our unequivocal apology to the overwhelming majority of Democrats in Congress who are rightfully offended by the inaccurate assertion that the poorly worded, inflammatory advertisement implied,” said AIPAC in a statement that it shared on Twitter on Saturday.
