![]() The Democratic leader in the House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries, made a pointed defense of Israel while congressional Republicans quickly engineered a resolution declaring “Israel is not a racist or apartheid state”. The Democratic leadership distanced itself from a boycott by some progressive representatives and joined the pile-on against Pramila Jayapal, chair of the influential Democratic Progressive Caucus, after she called Israel a “racist state” before rowing back to say she meant that its government is pursuing “ outright racist policies”. Nothing much looked to have changed last week as Democrats and Republicans alike feted Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog, during his address to Congress. Through it all, however, support for Israel in Washington has remained largely undiminished. People are accepting the fact that it’s OK to be Jewish and criticise Israel Mike Levinson It’s been a long and often lonely road since then as he has sought to get his fellow Americans to pay attention to decades of Israeli occupation, military assaults on the West Bank and Gaza, and the unrelenting expansion of Jewish settlements. Levinson, a Jewish New Yorker, began protesting against Israeli government policies during its 1982 invasion of Lebanon. People are accepting the fact that it’s OK to be Jewish and criticise Israel.” There are a lot of Jews, especially young people, who are not so quick to automatically and unconditionally support everything that Israel does. “There’s a tremendous change going on in the American Jewish community. I think it scares them,” said Levinson, holding a sign demanding “Stop Israeli settler violence” as he marched through New York on Thursday. “There’s a change and the politicians see it. ![]()
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