{"id":1115252,"date":"2021-12-13T16:15:04","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T21:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1115252"},"modified":"2021-12-13T16:15:06","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T21:15:06","slug":"rep-torres-ive-received-threats-for-supporting-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-torres-ive-received-threats-for-supporting-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Torres: I\u2019ve received threats for supporting Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frep-torres-ive-received-threats-for-supporting-israel%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1115252&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2611152\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2611152\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ritchie Torres speaks to the media in Bronx, N.Y. on Nov. 3, 2020. (Adam Hunger \/ AP Photo)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 12:29 PM PT \u2013 Monday, December 13, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Democrat congressman Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) slammed his own party for supporting the Boycott, Divest and Sanction (BDS) movement against Israel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/live\/?ref=watch_permalink&amp;v=621056202353173\">While speaking<\/a> to the Israeli-American Council over the weekend, the progressive described how struck he was with just how much hatred he has received for supporting Israel. He said he\u2019s received death threats and has been the target of a campaign by the Democratic Socialists of America to silence him politically.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Torres described a bizarre encounter he had with a Queers for Palestine activist, pointing out that Palestine doesn\u2019t tolerate homosexuality.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cAnd so I asked her, she was LGBTQ, what is your opinion of Hamas?\u201d explained the New York lawmaker. \u201cAnd she said I support Hamas because Hamas represents the liberation of the Palestinian people, and at that moment I found myself in a state of shock. For a moment, I thought I was hallucinating.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congressman Ritchie Torres at the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IACSummit?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IACSummit<\/a>. The stupidity of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BDS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BDS<\/a> movement is overwhelming to the point that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LGBTQ?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LGBTQ<\/a> activists support an Islamic terror organization such as Hamas which is known to murder any and all LGBTQ Palestinians. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/h0bJm7hkvq\">pic.twitter.com\/h0bJm7hkvq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Adam Milstein (@AdamMilstein) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamMilstein\/status\/1469849707526733825?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 12, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Rep. Torres said he feels that many progressives, which he normally considers himself a part of, have blurred the lines too much between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/ark-gov-hutchinson-vaccine-mandates-are-unconstitutional\/\">Ark. Gov. Hutchinson: Vaccine Mandates Are Unconstitutional<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ritchie Torres speaks to the media in Bronx, N.Y. on Nov. 3, 2020. 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