{"id":1556713,"date":"2022-07-15T15:34:17","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T19:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1556713"},"modified":"2022-07-15T15:34:29","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T19:34:29","slug":"new-york-dem-accused-of-challah-washing-her-anti-israel-views","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-dem-accused-of-challah-washing-her-anti-israel-views\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Dem Accused of \u2018Challah-Washing\u2019 Her Anti-Israel Views"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fnew-york-dem-accused-of-challah-washing-her-anti-israel-views%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=1556713&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>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Yuh-Line Niou poses for photo with Jewish foods after she endorsed BDS movement<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tTwitter\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/alana-goodman\/\" title=\"Posts by Alana Goodman\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Alana Goodman<\/a> \u2022 July 15, 2022 3:25 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>A New York House candidate under fire for endorsing the anti-Israel boycott movement attempted damage control by posing for a photo surrounded by Jewish foods on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic candidate Yuh-Line Niou retweeted, and then later deleted, a snap of her holding a loaf of Challah bread while sitting next to bottles of Israeli Coca-Cola, an Israeli-made SodaStream, and stacks of Jewish prayer books.<\/p>\n<p>Niou praised the bread effusively in a Twitter post, saying it was the &#8220;[b]est challah I\u2019ve had in a long long time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Heated in the oven just a bit to make it like fresh. Double butter is right!!!&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;Best challah I&#8217;ve had in a long long time. I couldn\u2019t even put into words how perfect the inside was. Perfect crust. Soft with just a little density. Miriam also put some toppings on. Dreams.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1617492 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/55a18316-f032-4a31-8cfe-6436d05c6d67-634x1024-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"634\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/55a18316-f032-4a31-8cfe-6436d05c6d67-634x1024-1.jpg 634w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/55a18316-f032-4a31-8cfe-6436d05c6d67-186x300.jpg 186w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/55a18316-f032-4a31-8cfe-6436d05c6d67-768x1240.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/55a18316-f032-4a31-8cfe-6436d05c6d67-951x1536.jpg 951w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/55a18316-f032-4a31-8cfe-6436d05c6d67-736x1189.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/55a18316-f032-4a31-8cfe-6436d05c6d67-304x491.jpg 304w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/55a18316-f032-4a31-8cfe-6436d05c6d67.jpg 1125w\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Political leaders and members of the Jewish community objected to the photo and described it as an attempt by Niou to &#8220;challah-wash&#8221; her anti-Israel position. The post came just days after Niou expressed support for the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, which seeks to wage economic and political warfare on Israel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Here I am spending hours upon hours fighting Anti-Semitism, Anti-Semites, and BDS. While our \u2018leadership\u2019 is busy promoting them. Shame!&#8221; wrote New York City councilwoman Inna Vernikov.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well that picture is ridiculous. It looks like a grotesque parody of an anti-Semite demonstrating her love of the Jews. It\u2019s like \u2018jewwashing,\u2019&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SethBarronNYC\/status\/1547791372538654723\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>\u00a0Seth Barron, managing editor of the <em>American Mind<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Niou did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The photo was originally posted by the government affairs director for Agudath Israel of America, a leading umbrella group for Haredi Orthodox Jews, who said he met with Niou to urge her to reconsider her position on BDS.<\/p>\n<p>Niou\u2019s support for the BDS movement drew sharp criticism from the pro-Israel community and political leaders in her own party.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe in the right to protest as a fundamental tenet of western democracy, so I do support BDS,&#8221; she told <em>Jewish Insider<\/em> in an email.<\/p>\n<p>Niou\u2019s position was slammed by her House opponent and former mayor Bill de Blasio, who called the BDS movement &#8220;unacceptable,&#8221; and by New York Democratic Party chairman Jay Jacobs, who said it was &#8220;offensive&#8221; and &#8220;shows a lack of understanding of the region.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats Yuh-Line Niou poses for photo with Jewish foods after she endorsed BDS movement  Twitter  Alana Goodman \u2022 July 15, 2022 3:25 pm A<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1556713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1556713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1556713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1556713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1556713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}