The U.S. government’s business-backed pro-migration policy since 1990 has undermined political support for Israel and for Jews throughout the Democratic Party’s high/low coalition of elite-minded graduates and poor people.
At the top, Patrick Gaspard, the president of the influential and very establishment Center for American Progress, has called for Israel to stop bombing the Hamas forces hidden among the Gaza population:
He is the African-born child of Haitian emigres who became a top deputy to President Barack Obama. He “is squarely in the center of Democratic thought [and] when he says, correctly, that ‘There is nothing complicated about being able to say killing innocent people is wrong and needs to stop,’ we should take notice,” said an October 30 article in a left-wing website, The American Prospect.
Rep. Pramilla Jayapal (D-Wa), the Indian-born head of the Democrats’ Progressive Caucus on the Hill, is also calling for an Israeli stand-down. Her caucus has roughly 100 members, which is almost half of the Democrats’ membership on Capitol Hill. She declared on October 26:
I called for an immediate ceasefire, or at minimum, a cessation of…
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