WASHINGTON (JTA) — Vice President Mike Pence said that Democrats had been “co-opted” by anti-Semites during an unusually partisan speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. “How things have changed,” Pence said Monday at the lobby’s annual conference. “It’s astonishing to think that the party of Harry Truman, which did so much to create…
Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang revealed he’s against circumcision, and if elected, he would include that view into public policy. In a tweet that fell under-the-radar, Yang said that he was against the practice of cutting a newborn’s foreskin, which is often done for religious purposes. He doubled down in an interview with The Daily…
(JTA) — Former Sen. Joe Lieberman, a Democrat turned Independent who ran for vice president in 2000, said during a radio interview that the Democratic Party is not anti-Jewish, but individual members have problems with Jews. “The Democratic Party is not an anti-Jewish party, but there are some people in the party now, including in…
For at least five years, pro-Israel groups who want Israel to enjoy bi-partisan support in the United States have been worried about Democrats. While evangelical Republicans are some of Israel’s most passionate supporters, young Democrats are less likely to support Israel than in past generations. The groups have tried to reverse this trend in lots…
There’s a narrative emerging on the left that’s surprising only because it’s so commonplace on the right: the idea that the Democratic Party is abandoning Israel. Thus, when freshmen congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar came out in support of the boycott effort against Israel, known as BDS, you saw commentary from Republicans jubilant that…
Joe Lieberman, former Democratic Senator from Connecticut, made it clear he is not a fan of New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. “With all respect, I certainly hope she’s not the future and I don’t believe she is,” Lieberman said Thursday on Fox Business Network. Lieberman, 76, explained that Ocasio-Cortez, 29, is too “different” and “controversial”…
New York State Democrats are ready to take over the majority — and one of their first moves is letting Brooklyn Senator Simcha Felder know he is not welcome back into their conference, the New York Daily News reported. Senate Democratic spokesman Mike Murphy told the Daily News that the group will not need Felder’s…
The CBS board may have fired Les Moonves for misleading them about sex, but he did call it straight about money, media and politics. “Trump’s run may not be good for America,” he told a conference of investment bankers in 2016, “but it’s damn good for CBS.” The campaign may be a “circus,” he said,…
