Clinton campaign emails reveal often craven pandering to big Jewish donors. But they also show that Jews are not monolithic in supporting Israel. Many care about progressive causes. It’s time for the media to frankly address this outsize Jewish influence so that Jews will express greater diversity on foreign policy.
Two emails to Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta from Neera Tanden, head of the think tank Center for American Progress, lay bare the influence of Zionist money on the political process as nothing else has.
Another hot Wikileaks email has broken out of the Clinton camp: Neera Tanden, a Clinton adviser, called Netanyahu a ruthless ‘wing nut’ and Israel ‘depressing’ after he won reelection in March 2015. A few months later she hosted him fawningly at the Center for American Progress.
Latest Democratic Party emails published by Wikileaks show Clinton campaign aides bending over backwards to please the Israel lobby and big pro-Israel donors, to balance her support for the Iran deal.