
GOP’s Israel Plank Challenges the Democrats
As they did in 1944, the Republicans today have thrown down the gauntlet. Can the Democrats match that, given the sentiment toward Israel among some segments of their party?
Dr. Medoff is founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies; his most recent book is The Jews Should Keep Quiet: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and the Holocaust.
As they did in 1944, the Republicans today have thrown down the gauntlet. Can the Democrats match that, given the sentiment toward Israel among some segments of their party?
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