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| Permalink View Article Stats Promoted to Headline (H3) on 1/14/12: A win for progressives on Israel - Israel-Palestine - Salon.com Quicklink submitted by Rob Kall (Add your own quicklinks easily with the OpEdNews Quick Link Browser bookmark) |
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Hardline activists sought to unseat Rep. Donna Edwards over her Mideast views, but failed to raise enough money. Most of the money for Edwards, a J-Street supporter, and for her opponent, came from outside the district. Checks for her opponent were to be sent to the chairman emeritus of the hardline Israel Project... In the end, though, the effort to raise money for Ivey apparently fell short. JStreetPAC President Jeremy Ben-Ami argues that Ivey's decision not to pursue a challenge against Edwards says something significant about the current moment. 'For too long, the conventional political wisdom has been that the most hawkish within the Jewish community had the fundraising ability to defeat candidates whose views on what it means to be pro-Israel did not comport with their own,' he says. Edwards ability to raise $50,000 from pro peace Jews proved that has changed. |
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