EXCLUSIVE: NRSC plans to hold anti-Israel Democrats accountable across America
Democratic Senate candidates across the country have “spent more time attacking Israel than they have condemning Hamas' barbaric October 7th attack two years ago," the NRSC noted.
On the two year anniversary of the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, Senate Republicans are eager to note that Democratic Senate candidates across the country have “spent more time attacking Israel than they have condemning Hamas’ barbaric October 7th attack two years ago.”
Joanna Rodriguez, the National Republican Senatorial Committee’s (NRSC) Communications Director, painted a bleak picture of the Senate map for Democrats when it comes to standing with America’s closest ally in the Middle East.
“The new litmus test for progressive credentials is whether Democrats will accuse Israel of genocide or tie themselves to known anti-Semitic activists,” Rodriguez told the Washington Reporter. “As Democrats continue to pander to their pro-Hamas, radical base, the NRSC is committed to doing everything in our power to make sure these candidates never set foot in the U.S. Senate.”
The Reporter previously covered how Iowa Democrats’ confusion on the issue is playing directly into the hands of Rep. Ashley Hinson (R., Iowa), who is in the driver’s seat to win her state’s open Senate race.
Both state Senator Zach Wahls and state Representative Josh Turek are Democrats running for Senate against Hinson. Neither responded to request for comment from the Reporter about the moves by some of America’s allies to recognize “Palestine,” a country that has never existed in world history. Turek had previously supported an amendment in the Iowa House that supported conditioning American aid to Israel.
But the Democrats’ hostility to America’s ally goes far deeper, as the NRSC laid out. Perhaps no state more than Michigan embodies the terror tight rope that Democrats find themselves in.
There, Rep. Haley Stevens (D., Mich.) is under siege by radical Democrats like Abdul El-Sayed, who has made overt hatred of Israel a central theme of his campaign and Mallory McMorrow — who recently declared that Israel is committing a genocide precisely while Hamas terrorists are rejecting yet another peace deal proffered by President Donald Trump. The far-left duo take particular issue with Stevens’s support from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).
But Michigan are far from alone in their deep divide. In Maine, political newcomer Graham Platner — who was recently praised by a pro-Hitler city council candidate — has what Jewish Insider called a bizarre “anti-Israel fixation.” Platner has raised millions of dollars, but Gov. Janet Mills (D., Maine) is keeping everyone guessing as to whether she will challenge popular Sen. Susan Collins (R., Maine).
Platner isn’t alone in highlighting anti-Israel bona fides to Maine Democrats. Jordan Wood, who made a career out of working for Democrats from Illinois and California, brags about “help[ing to] organize demonstrations around what I what I believe were apartheid policies in Israel against Palestinians.” A fact check by the Reporter found that there are no apartheid policies in Israel.
In the increasingly chaotic Senate race in Texas, State Representative James Talarico called Israel’s war of self-defense a “moral disaster.” Meanwhile, former Rep. Colin Allred (D., Texas) shifted his position to now want to withhold aid from Israel.
Over in the Granite State, a self-proclaimed peace activist named Karishma Manzur is accusing Rep. Chris Pappas (D., N.H.) of supporting a non-existent “genocide” in Gaza, and Pappas’s fellow member of Congress, Rep. Angie Craig (D., Minn.) is taking flak in her race against Minnesota’s far-left lieutenant governor Peggy Flanagan for her pro-Israel views.
Finally, even in states where Republicans are unlikely to seriously compete, the Democrats’ sprint to the left is fodder for Republicans. In Illinois, Rep. Robin Kelly (D., Ill.) announced that she would have backed Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I., Vt.) unprecedented resolutions to withhold aid from Israel, which Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton and Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D., Ill.) have thus far been more muted in their attacks on Israel.