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(Jewish Group) Anti-Semitic charges in tow congressional races
(THIS IS THE JEWISH GROUP! RESPECT!!)Two congressional races have been beset in recent days with charges of anti-Semitism, and each case — in California and in Virginia — uncovers challenges for Jews in the Republican and Democratic parties.
For Jewish Democrats, it’s about Israel and the party’s left wing. For Jewish Republicans, it’s about extremists.
In both cases, Jews in the respective parties are grappling with old problems made sharper by recent developments.
Democrats for years have had a left wing that tended to see Israel as a problem more than an alliance, but the party’s drift from the country in recent years has brought a once marginal tendency to the fore.
Republicans, similarly, have repudiated fringe candidates who embrace far right and even Nazi identities.
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