WASHINGTON (JTA) — Sen. Elizabeth Warren, whose presidential candidacy has rallied in recent weeks, told two Jewish anti-occupation activists “yes” when they asked her for support. Becca Lubow, a student and a member of the IfNotNow Jewish anti-occupation movement, and a companion approached the Massachusetts Democrat on Monday at an event in Peterborough, New Hampshire,…
Tom Steyer, a prominent Jewish billionaire, left-wing activist and Democratic mega-donor announced this morning on Twitter that he will join the Democratic Race for president. Steyer is a former hedge fund manager and founder of Farallon, a San Francisco-based investment firm. In 2012, he retired to focus on political and environmental advocacy. He had previously…
This week’s Democratic debates made for good television – as sparks flew between candidates in tussles few expected. From former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro arguing with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke about decriminalizing border crossings to California Senator Kamala Harris taking former Vice President Joe Biden to task over his long-held opposition…
On Wednesday, hours before the first Democratic presidential primary debate aired, the Bloomberg columnist Jonathan Bernstein predicted that Democrats would evince a major party image never before seen in American politics. He was mainly speaking of the unprecedented racial and gender diversity among the Democratic hopefuls, but he could have just as easily been referencing…
The left is fractious. Where the right wing prizes uniformity and compliance, we lefties come from hundreds of perspectives. To get us marching in the same direction takes a compelling force. Hence the adage, “Democrats fall in love, Republicans fall in line.” The 2016 Democratic presidential primary was a fiasco because Bernie Sanders couldn’t wrap…
With the first primary debates coming up this week, the large field of 2020 Democratic presidential candidates are busy preparing to share their policy visions and views on a wide range of issues. When it comes to the US-Israel relationship, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and US foreign policy in the Middle East, some candidates may be…
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Sunday became the first presidential candidate to ever address the California Democratic Party’s Arab American Caucus. Sanders, an independent senator from Vermont, was one of several presidential candidates to travel to the California state party’s convention in Oakland over the weekend and address the assembly and its various caucuses. While there,…
(JTA) — Draft resolutions fiercely critical of Israel that were put forth by far-left Democrats in California for the state party’s convention were substantially rewritten by the Resolutions Committee of the California Democratic Party. Four of the rewritten resolutions were passed by the committee on Friday at the party’s state convention in San Francisco, and…
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