(Jewish Group) Jewish Republicans are smearing Kamala Harris as anti-Israel. Here's why you shouldn't buy it
Well, that didn’t take long.
Less than a day after President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential campaign and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for the Democratic nomination, the Republican Jewish Coalition launched a series of tweets calling Harris “a total disaster for Israel” and “disgraceful,” falsely accusing her of refusing to condemn a Hamas supporter during a speaking engagement at a college.
Piling on, David Friedman, who served as ambassador to Israel in the Trump administration, wrote on X, “There is now the widest gap in American history between the two candidates’ support for Israel. Donald Trump is the best ever — Kamala Harris would be the worst.”
Their campaign against Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, potentially the next president and first gentleman, will only grow more desperate and far-fetched as the election nears. Your job: Be very, very skeptical. The shock troops of misinformation deserve high marks for speed, but not so much for accuracy.
Watch the exchange that the RJC highlighted for yourself, and it’s clear that Harris certainly didn’t stay silent when a student at Northern Arizona University accused Israel of genocide and justified Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack. In fact, you might end up feeling grateful for Harris — as I did — because of the ease with which she demonstrated how to deescalate a tense interaction over the Middle East.
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