“Wonder why Democratic Majority for Israel’s negative ads against Nina Turner for Congress have nothing to do with Israel?” tweeted Wisconsin Rep. Mark Pocan. Recent polling clearly shows why: support for the country is dropping among Democratic voters.
A new ad for Shontel Brown in Ohio from Democratic Majority for Israel leaves out the organization’s full name and any mention of Israel. That’s because Democratic voters aren’t very supportive of Israel. Though establishment Democrats, including many Israel advocates, have flocked to Brown to try and prevent the growth of the Squad in Congress with the likely addition of Nina Turner.
The Democratic Party Establishment has all hands on deck trying to stop Nina Turner as her race with Shontel Brown is a microcosm of wider battles going on in the party. And to no surprise Israel is a factor.
“Palestinians, under occupation for decades, are fighting for their homes and demanding freedom,” Kelly Cobiella says on NBC, in a sign that Israel’s new government will not be able to reverse the disaffection for its practices in the U.S. “New government — same apartheid,” says the young Jewish group IfNotNow.
Liberal Zionists are secretly exultant over Naftali Bennett unseating Benjamin Netanyahu, hoping it will end the politicization of Israel in U.S. politics. But Apartheid is a hard sell and Bennett will quickly be on a collision course with a lot of people in the United States who think Palestinians should have rights.
Democratic Majority for Israel was established for the sole purpose of stomping out the growing pro-Palestine sentiment within the Democratic Party. Their next target: Nina Turner.
Liberal Zionist groups have all but ignored B’Tselem’s bombshell report stating that Israel is an apartheid regime. And no wonder, the report impugns the progressive credentials of any organization that calls itself pro-Israel, and apartheid demands use of a tool liberal Zionists have rejected as allegedly antisemitic, BDS.