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Israel advocates are the 2 largest donors in lead-up to U.S. midterm elections

contact@ifamericansknew.org October 13, 2018 Andrew Gillum, campaign donations, Michael Bloomberg, midterm elections, Phil Bredesen, Sheldon Adelson

Israel partisans Sheldon Adelson and Michael Bloomberg are the top campaign donors leading up to midterm elections. Adelson, an American billionaire who has said he wished he’d served in the Israeli military instead of the US one, is donating tens of millions of dollars to Republicans. Bloomberg, a billionaire who twice flew to Israel to demonstrate his support of Israel during its massacres of Gazans, is giving tens of millions to Democrats….

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NYT: A New Wave of Democrats Tests the Party’s Blanket Support for Israel

contact@ifamericansknew.org October 8, 2018 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ammar Campa-Najjar, Andrew Gillum, chuck schumer, Dima Khalidi, Duncan Hunter, Gene Green, Ilhan Omar, Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington, Leslie Cockburn, Palestine Legal, political candidates, Rashida Tlaib, Republican Jewish Coalition, Ron DeSantis, Ron Halber, Scott Wallace, StandWithUs

New York Times reports that a cluster of activist Democrats — most of them young, most of them cruising toward House seats this fall — has dared to breach what has been an almost inviolable orthodoxy in both political parties, strong support for Israel, raising the specter of a crack in the Democratic Party that Republicans could use to attract Jewish supporters.

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