{"id":1587231,"date":"2022-08-03T14:34:09","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T18:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1587231"},"modified":"2022-08-03T14:34:17","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T18:34:17","slug":"anti-israel-dems-cant-stop-blaming-their-primary-losses-on-the-jews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/anti-israel-dems-cant-stop-blaming-their-primary-losses-on-the-jews\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Israel Dems Can\u2019t Stop Blaming Their Primary Losses on the Jews"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fanti-israel-dems-cant-stop-blaming-their-primary-losses-on-the-jews%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=1587231&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\">After Andy Levin&#8217;s loss in Michigan, &#8216;Squad&#8217; acolyte Nina Turner says &#8216;AIPAC bought another seat&#8217;<\/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\tTwice-failed congressional candidate Nina Turner \/ Getty Images\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\/collin-anderson\/\" title=\"Posts by Collin Anderson\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Collin Anderson<\/a> \u2022 August 3, 2022 2:20 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>For the second time in a year, anti-Israel Democrats found themselves on the losing end of a bitter primary battle and rushed to blame the Jews.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday night, pro-Israel Rep. Haley Stevens cruised to a 20-point win over fellow Michigan Democratic representative Andy Levin, who has championed legislation to restrict military aid to the Jewish state, argued that anti-Semitism is not an issue on the left, and aligned himself with his party&#8217;s most radical, anti-Semitic members. As a result, pro-Israel group AIPAC spent to boost Stevens and oppose Levin through one of its newly formed political action committees, the United Democracy Project\u2014prompting Levin&#8217;s far-left allies to blame the so-called Israel lobby following the congressman&#8217;s defeat.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Squad&#8221; acolyte and twice-failed congressional candidate Nina Turner, for example, quickly <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ninaturner\/status\/1554634229224558596\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>, &#8220;AIPAC bought another seat.&#8221; Turner herself <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/jewish-groups-slam-nina-turners-anti-semitic-evil-money-remark\/\">blamed<\/a> her 2021 congressional loss on &#8220;evil money&#8221; after pro-Israel Democrats backed her primary opponent. Liberal anti-Israel group J Street also <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jstreetdotorg\/status\/1554665018481934336?s=20&#038;t=Lnqkl4LWBfUUkECmG_jrEg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">denounced<\/a> AIPAC&#8217;s &#8220;aggressive outside spending,&#8221; which it called &#8220;harmful and unwelcome.&#8221; J Street&#8217;s statement did not mention its own outside spending in the race\u2014the group dropped more than $700,000 to oppose Stevens.<\/p>\n<p>AIPAC, of course, was not the only outside group that backed Stevens in the race. Pro-abortion giant EMILY&#8217;s List endorsed Stevens over Levin and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/races\/outside-spending?cycle=2022&#038;id=MI11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spent<\/a> more than $3 million to support the congresswoman through its own PAC, Women Vote!<\/p>\n<p>While Levin did not mention AIPAC by name in his <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Andy_Levin\/status\/1554816647302549504?s=20&#038;t=Lnqkl4LWBfUUkECmG_jrEg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">concession statement<\/a>, the Democrat did attack what he called a &#8220;largely Republican-funded campaign set on defeating the movement I represent no matter where I ran.&#8221; In response, AIPAC said it was &#8220;proud&#8221; to have &#8220;helped pro-Israel Democrats prevail over detractors of the Jewish state&#8221; and accused its critics of hypocrisy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A double standard is applied to us when it comes to money in politics,&#8221; the group&#8217;s spokesman, Marshall Wittmann, told the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>. &#8220;Those who criticize our involvement often hypocritically support the use of the same tools against pro-Israel candidates.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Levin, who served as president of a progressive Detroit synagogue, has aligned himself with the Democratic Party&#8217;s loudest anti-Semitic voices.<\/p>\n<p>In the past year, he&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jta.org\/2021\/09\/30\/politics\/andy-levin-says-his-friendship-with-rashida-tlaib-gives-him-hope-for-israel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">repeatedly<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/jewishinsider.com\/2021\/03\/andy-levin-michigan-antisemitism-judaism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">defended<\/a> Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) and Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) from accusations of anti-Semitism. Tlaib has accused Jewish supporters of Israel of holding dual loyalties and in May <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/meet-rashida-tlaibs-favorite-anti-israel-publisher\/\">collaborated<\/a> with a pro-Hamas activist who urged Palestinians to attack Israel. Omar, meanwhile, has argued that U.S. support for Israel is &#8220;all about the Benjamins baby,&#8221; a reference to $100 bills that prompted swift condemnation from many prominent Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Despite those examples of anti-Semitism among his closest allies, Levin has argued that left-wing anti-Semitism is merely &#8220;part of a larger machinery to stoke fear and division.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t really [think left-wing anti-Semitism is an issue],&#8221; Levin told <em>Jewish Insider<\/em> in March 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Stevens&#8217;s victory over Levin marks the latest House primary win for pro-Israel Democrats. In 2021, pro-Israel Democrat Shontel Brown <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/ohio-dems-reject-bernie-acolyte-in-heated-primary\/\">defeated<\/a> Turner in Ohio&#8217;s 11th Congressional District and thanked her &#8220;Jewish brothers and sisters&#8221; in her victory speech. Roughly one year later, in May, Brown <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/pro-israel-shift-too-little-too-late-for-squad-acolyte-in-ohio-house-primary\/\">again defeated Turner<\/a>, who failed to airbrush her anti-Israel past after she expressed &#8220;solidarity&#8221; with far-left groups that accuse Israel of apartheid.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats After Andy Levin&#8217;s loss in Michigan, &#8216;Squad&#8217; acolyte Nina Turner says &#8216;AIPAC bought another seat&#8217;  Twice-failed congressional candidate Nina Turner \/ Getty Images  Collin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"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-1587231","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\/1587231","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\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1587231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587231\/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=1587231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1587231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1587231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}