Pelosi at AIPAC: 'We will never allow anyone to make Israel a wedge issue'
Source: The Hill
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) stressed at a pro-Israel conference Tuesday that congressional support for Israel remains bipartisan, saying no one should be allowed to make it a wedge issue.
Israel and America are connected now and forever. We will never allow anyone to make Israel a wedge issue, Pelosi said during her address to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference Tuesday morning.
That pledge is proudly honored in this Congress, where support for Israel remains ironclad and bipartisan, she added.
Her remarks come after President Trump has criticized Democrats as "anti-Israel" and "anti-Jewish" in recent weeks, seemingly trying to drive a wedge between voters focused on Israel and the Democratic Party.
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