Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib joined Linda Sarsour in a virtual event run by CAIR, an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terror case.
With a wide-open field of 9 contenders to succeed Democrat Kennedy, some fear a split of the pro-Israel/Jewish vote could let a pro-BDS candidate enter Congress.
While Democrats reject linking U.S. aid to any Israeli moves on sovereignty in Judea and Samaria, their platform opposes Israeli sovereignty there and adds new support for 'Palestinian rights.'
According to the poll, 67 percent of U.S. voters, 68 percent of Democrats and 68 percent of voters in battleground states describe themselves as pro-Israel.
The Defense for Children International-Palestine has been linked to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, designated a terror group by the US and EU.
The letter has been issued by Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) and Betty McCollum (D-Minn.).
The debate included the question of whether the candidates would undo President Trump’s May 2018 move of the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
AIPAC needs to decide what its purpose is: ensuring that candidates who threaten to withhold U.S. aid to Israel do not attain office, or making nice with everyone.
'We’re tired of sitting back and letting a few vocal outliers hijack the Democratic Party’s Israel policy,' said Democratic Majority for Israel president and CEO Mark Mellman.
A leading Reform Rabbi from New York has warned against anti-Israel trends within the Democratic party and said that 'anti-Zionists' should not be allowed to damage the US-Israel alliance.
Bernie panders to his historically-challenged, victimology-obsessed constituency rather than show even the most minimal support for an indispensable US ally.
By refusing Israel’s offer, Tlaib showed that her goal was never to visit an aging family member, but to use that visit as a platform to attack the Jewish state.
Two Democratic senators, both presidential candidates, have shown insensitivity to the Jewish community by praising anti-Semitic black leader Al Sharpton.