@wearedigitaldiplomacy: Is Israel a partisan issue in the US? Let’s see… Over 44 painstakingly scripted minutes on the floor of the US Senate last Thursday, the majority leader, Senator Chuck Schumer, spoke of his Jewish identity, his love for the State of Israel, his horror at the Oct. 7 attack and his views on what is happening in Gaza, saying that it first and foremost lay with Hamas. Then Senator Schumer, a New York Democrat and the highest-ranking elected Jew in American history, said Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, was an impediment to peace, and called for new elections in the world’s only Jewish state. “Schumer’s speech was potentially a watershed moment in a much longer political process, pursued initially by Republicans but joined recently by left-wing Democrats — to turn Israel into a partisan issue,” writes the New York Times. “Republicans, as they see it, would be the party of Israeli supporters. Democrats, as the rising left would have it, would be the party of Palestine.” “The pressure — electoral, social, cultural — on American Jews right now to declare themselves” on the justice of the war in Gaza and on the legitimacy of the Israeli prime minister has been “unrelenting, unforgiving,” David Wolpe, a prominent rabbi in Los Angeles and a visiting scholar at Harvard Divinity School, told the New York Times. #israel #digitaldiplomacy

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Saturday 16 March 2024 15:00:44 GMT