6 of 7 Democratic Senators Running for President Voted Against Pro-Israel Bill
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Six of the seven Democratic Party presidential candidates in the U.S. Senate voted against a pro-Israel bill this week that would make it easier for states to oppose the “boycott, divestment, sanctions” (BDS) movement.
Some critics have called BDS not only anti-Israel, but antisemitic, because it targets only Israel and not the Palestinians, and because it singles out Israel while ignoring human rights abuses committed by its neighbors.
As Ron Kampeas of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency noted (via the Jerusalem Post):
The Strengthening America’s Security in the Middle East Act (S.1), which the American Israel Public Affairs Committee said “contains critical pro-Israel provisions,” passed 77-23, earning yeas from every Republican but one, Rand Paul of Kentucky. It codifies $38 billion in defense assistance to Israel and provides legal cover to states that target the boycott Israel movement.
However, Democrats were split on the bill. Initially, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) even blocked the bill from coming to a vote, blaming the government shutdown at the time.
Democrats were almost evenly split on the final vote. As Kampeas notes, Sen. Amy Klobucher (D-MN), who is expected to announce her candidacy for president this weekend, was the only contender to vote for the bill.
The others — Kamala Harris (D-CA), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), and Sherrod Brown (D-OH) — all voted against the bill. Most cited free speech concerns — though anti-BDS laws have been found not to violate free speech laws. Last month, for example, a federal judge in Arkansas upheld that state’s anti-BDS law, which prevents the state from doing business with companies that boycott Israel. Even left-wing California, Harris’s home state, has an anti-BDS law in force.
A likelier reason for their “no” vote has to do with the increasing importance of anti-Israel political forces in the Democratic Party coalition.
Last month, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) appointed the avowedly anti-Israel Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) to the House Foreign Affairs Committee, despite concern over her radical views and past antisemitic rhetoric.
Booker, once a favorite of Jewish donors in the Democratic Party, has effectively switched sides on the issue after supporting President Barack Obama’s ill-fated Iran nuclear deal in 2015.
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Phil McDonald
5 years ago
I am not sure it is possible to hand the democrats a win. As soon as they appear to show some signs of political life, they find a way shoot themselves.
2020 is going to be brutal.
Do not assume Trump will win.
Voter fraud will be over the top. Illegals will be voting in droves. States REFUSED Trump cleaning out voter fraud. Vote harvesting will happen in more states. Vote ranking will happen more. Understand the numbers of these creepy people has only increased since 2016 and in the midterms we have more DEM governors to look the other way for voter fraud. 2020 will not be an easy win, IF Trump does win.
BDS should be called what it is: Muhammadist.
Israel doesn’t need any help from Muhammadist politicians.
Muhammadist tyrannies however need help to free the enslaved Africans, tortured atheists there & protect the girls from Muhammadist forcible declitorization.
Rocinante44
5 years ago
it’s the democrat-muslim party….what else did you expect?
follow the money, i bet these dems are getting money from corporations that are owned in large part by saudi, and qatar royalty. and get their marching orders from these islamic sources. hence why the dems support certain positions, they must bend the knee to their cult leaders.
Worsethanitlooks
5 years ago
There are roughly 7.2 million jews living in America. Just over 4.6 million (64%) of them live in 11 states represented by a Senator that voted against the overwhelmingly bipartisan ant-BDS bill. American jews continue to support blatantly anti-semitic Democratic candidates. When you vote for your own self-destruction you deserve what you get.
When news isn’t hidden based on a political agenda, a democracy works.
Note also that a democracy dies behind closed doors…. I can’t help but wonder …
Why did the Mueller team met with Supreme Court Judge Roberts behind closed doors?
I am in the Jewish Republican minority with commonsense. I just returned from the UK witnessing the disgusting Labour Party with its similarities. However the British Jews finally got the memo. I have been warning the community for months now but it has been falling on deaf ears for those not like myself.
Keep talking to them. We need you out there educating them.
Fred
5 years ago
Those who voted for BDS should note that they voted for Hitlers Law created under Hitler in 1934 in Nuremberg/Germany to destroy the Jews of Europe and nearly succeded, do the US Democrats wish to destroy the US Jewish minority, then the Muslim addition to the Congress with their vote will facilitate this…
Suicidal JudenKapos are assuring their own demise. As soon as IslamoTangos and their BolshieCrat brethren assume power, suicidal Jews will be slaughtered. So soon they forget!
Michael Garfinkel
5 years ago
Jewish donors to Cory Booker – “Donors to Jews – drop dead!”
LeslieFish
5 years ago
How can we expose the Jew-haters more thoroughly? The MSM avoids such stories, but there must be more minor media willing to listen — and report.
Alleged-Comment
5 years ago
I’m sorry, you can’t run for President and be an anti-Semite. What you want to do to US? KURSE US???
You also can’t serve two masters. Geller wants to do that.
Hans Wellington
5 years ago
6 out of 7 Democrats are miserable afraid of the Muslims cowards. They would betray the Jews just to save their own miserable arses. No self respecting Jew should ever vote for those despicable treacherous low life cowards.
Nazis, Muslims have already a hatred for the Jews, then we have parts of the Catholicism
Do not tell me Catholics do not kill Jews, German Crusade and again with First Crusade, Croation Ustaše. Do not know how much the Jesuit Order of Catholicism has to do with anti-Semitism.
felix1999
5 years ago
DEM voters don’t care as long as they get “FREE” stuff.
I don’t see much enthusiasm yet for a DEM president. They are the usual faces. Even Beta isn’t that exciting.
I wonder. At the last minute will another unknown, unvetted Obama appear for excitement?
Phyllis Gittens
5 years ago
And that is why I would never vote Demoncrat
Drew the Infidel
5 years ago
Given their stances on socialism, infanticide, and open borders, you ain’t heard nothing yet.
Marc
5 years ago
In my opinion, Pam proves every day that she is a true
representative of free speech. I admire her for it. It’s not
necessary to agree with her political opinion, which alone
is enough to show that she is serious about it. But it also
shows that she may have recognized something for which
others are still blind. She’s, so to say, a pioneer of her time.
Pam would have enough reasons to “hate” Germans, but she doesn’t!
She must be convinced that there is no “collective guilt” at all. Human
beings are moral beings who act individually for most diverse reasons.
I would go so far that she would even allow “opinions” that would turn
the existing view of the world upside down! Only for the sake of truth!
All that, and only that, contributes to the Enlightenment! She does not
let herself be taken in, neither from left nor from right, she even has to
put up with idiotic accusations of making pacts with “white supremacists”.
I was so often at “the edge of life” that I had to start be-
lieving in the “Jewish principle”. It saved me! Every time!
It gave me confidence: There’s always a new beginning!
She is one of the few remained representatives in the political sphere who’s
still deeply convinced that problems can be solved with existing political will.
If this faith has ceased to live, our western civilization is definitely at an end!
I have watched her during her tv interviews, she lets her
opponents have their say, but refuses false accusations.
dhd123
5 years ago
The J street Dems are anti Zionists, so the BDS movement does not really bother them, it fits with their own beliefs, The Democratic Cabal is an insidious incarnation that morphs from position to position over the years, what they “believe” today, will change tomorrow. Every common sense thing will be opposed by the left, green to us is blue to them, it’s really green but they will argue to death that lt;s blue. They are contrary where illegal is good and law abiding is bad.
John Acord
5 years ago
Hopefully, American Jews will wake up and see where the Commiecrats are going very quickly. even a child should be able to recognize the consequences of their anti-Israel policies. That a supporter of BDS might become president will be catastrophe for not just Israel but for western civilization as well.
The election of the two Moslem bitches to the Congress and their incessant anti-Semitic messages will finally begin to hit home to the Jews who voted Democrat for so long. Much of the Jewish vote for the Democrats was more out of habit and tradition rather than deep political conviction. Hopefully the latest events will open their eyes.
There is still much to discover. Also, why
Jews after Hitler wanted nothing more to
do with supposedly “conservative” values. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Weiss
Proscribe islam or be a slave or worse under sharia!
aemoreira1981
5 years ago
No Pamela, they voted for the First Amendment. Since when does the Constitution give a GOVERNMENT the right to boycott?
David Sweeny
5 years ago
Podhoretz’s 2009 book “Why Are Jews Liberals?” questions why American Jews for decades have been dependable Democrats. I was taught that words have meanings, and in a given context, a word must be given one and only one meaning. There’s something wrong here. Let’s check our definitions.
Norman Podhoretz was not an observant Jew, but instead, …”was nonetheless conversant in “the intellectual tradition of his people”, as “a nonobservant New World Jew who … treasured the Hebraic tradition”. (New World = Globalist?)
So maybe many of those secular people in the Democrat Party, especially in the leadership, with Jewish names, are not really Jews in any meaningful sense of the word.. And maybe they are not liberals, but instead, illiberal leftists.
So the next question is: Why do so many secular people with Jewish names hate Israel, and the United States, as those countries are presently constituted? Do Schumer, Schiff, Feinstein, Wasserman-Schultz, Rosenthal, etc., represent a perversion of a secular religion? And is the disgust many right leaning intellectuals, including observant Jews, feel for them a new form of anti-semitism? Is there logically such a thing as an anti-Semitic Jew, e.g., Marx or Soros?
Maybe these people are neither Jewish nor Democrats. Maybe if the above named individuals would kindly change their names to Smith, Jones and Brown, observant Jews would stop voting for them, but then again, maybe not. What’s worse, by changing their names, they might actually get even more votes, but now from the anti-Semites in the Afro-American and Muslim-American communities. Oh Vey!
Name
5 years ago
I notice that many of the involved Democrats are of Irish ancestry. The Irish, long under control of the Catholic Church, are amongst the most anti-Israeli factions in the UN and on the world political stage. No surprise there considering the CC’s long history of antipathy towards the Jews.
Dig, dig, dig… just a little further down… the dome of Hell is waiting! Almost there, all you liber- asses!
KingOfAllAnimals
5 years ago
Ausrotten das Juden. Sound familiar? It should. Think National Socialists and Germany. Again history is out to repeat itself.
Mike Kevins
5 years ago
The dems have been anti-Israel for a long time. They are just being more open about it now, along with a whole slew of other “atrocities” against the human race. Yet, as mentioned below, the Jewish people will still vote for them. Kind of like blacks still voting democrat even though they were the party of the KKK.
The energy was wrong: Petr is her counter sign Sagittarius. Had I
been there, Pam would not have been able to “tear herself away”
from me (much Gemini and Aries like her, and Leo on top of that).
The hair, I know, genetic predisposition.There were less and less.
But I can produce pretty smart children who can write and count to
400 with age 3! It’s a good thing that his mother doesn’t know that.
She and I have been separated for a long time (best decision of my
life), and the little one has long since become a full-grown teenager.
In the second photo, my T-shirt is sagging. But authentic snapshot.
It’s probably not a good idea to post personal pictures here — at least not anywhere in the increasingly totalitarian, islamised Europeon Urinal. I hope you’re planning on relocating to the Visegrad states.
Right, I was buzzed. Thx. But ultimately all this is already part of tota-
litarianism, that we hide and don’t even know who we’re talking to any-
more. If only Pam could show her face, where are all the brave ones?
When millions of people are afraid to reveal their identity, the few
thousands who dominate us will have power over us for sure. Why
and from what should we hide if we have not committed any cr*mes.
What are we supposed to do with all of us? Will they throw us all
into prison for showing our faces? That alone shows you how
unfounded this ridiculous fear is. It is part of the agenda.
I am a completely apolitical person. I have my “opinions”,
I vote for a conservative party, but I am not a member of
any party, organization, association or anything like that.
My statements are completely harmless compared to others,
I do not call for violence. I am far too unimportant for people
who spy on dangers to their systems of power. They can’t
waste their time with a person like me. Who’s gonna pay?
In addition there is a lack of specific information like name,
address etc. They can’t even guarantee with one hundred
percent whether the pics I post actually match my identity.
The pictures are single photos, which can’t be found anywhere else,
partly snapshots, years or even decades ago. Perhaps the child de-
picted has been wearing glasses for a long time and now looks com-
pletely different? Who knows who my long-dead grandmother was?
The problem is we all take ourselves far too seriously. We should be
less paranoid. When I would get into trouble, I will refer to my good
relations to Jewish personalities, and they will promptly let me alone.
If Pam and I came together, my moon (female) in Aries would meet her
Mars (male) in Aries. My strong violent feelings (Aries) would soften,
calm, dissolve her aggressive actions. Since my Mercury in Gemini
corresponds with her sun, she would always be open to my thoughts.
Her excessive mind (head) governs at the expense of her
feelings (stomach). She can’t get out of her head, can’t let
herself go. This is her greatest weakness. Since feelings
symbolize femininity, for a woman rather disadvantageous.
Kamala Harris (D-CA), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), and Sherrod Brown (D-OH), C-ya. Thanks for playing but your presence is no longer needed or wanted.
Ariel Sharon
5 years ago
The Democratic party is now a pit of poisonous snakes.
Jack Schitt
5 years ago
A Jew voting for the Democrats is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders.
VictorMC
5 years ago
I give up with American politics… they are even more stupid than ours in the UK…I didn’t think that possible. Americans in the street have learnt nothing from the Muslim invasion of Europe over the last 30 years. OMG how stupid can you get ????
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