"Specifically, he overcame an avalanche of AIPAC money and debunked the argument that anyone who does not unconditionally support Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government’s regional aggression and Palestinian policy is somehow 'anti-Israeli.'

In an interview with me earlier this month, Biss defended his Israel bona fides:"

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"'I’m Jewish. My mother’s Israeli. My grandparents found a safe haven in Israel in 1948 after surviving the Holocaust. Most of my extended family on my mom’s side is still there, and I grew up visiting there every summer.'"

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"'So, Israel… means something to me, and its right to exist as a Jewish democratic state and to defend itself, also means something to me. This is not some box I checked on a questionnaire just to make somebody happy, this is personal.'"

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"He forthrightly called the conduct of this Israeli government 'appalling,' and deplored the U.S. stance when the Netanyahu government violates international law in a way that amounts to: 'Hey, we wish you wouldn’t, but also when you do, there will be no consequences.' That position, Biss argued, 'has not worked, cannot work, will not work.'”

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"Biss called out AIPAC’s deceptive tactics, pointing out that it had concocted a new entity, 'Elect Chicago Women,' to conceal its own name, which has become toxic in Democratic politics."

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"J Street president Jeremy Ben Ami and I have discussed the destructive turn AIPAC has made in recent years. It has become effectively a front for rightwing billionaires to clobber any candidate who will not sign onto its unqualified, extreme position on Israel."

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"As a fellow Jewish man who also grew up in America of the late 20th century—which turns out to be the best time and place in modern history to have ever been a Jew—I know Tapper’s concerns. Survivors of the Shoah were in and out of my synagogue for the whole of my Jewish education," (continued in /9)

~ Jason Sattler

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https://thecause.substack.com/p/jake-tapper-doesnt-want-the-words

(continued from /8)

"and my first Hebrew School teacher once had to leave class when she attempted to explain the numbers on her arm. I would do anything to avoid adding to that pain, which will always be a pain for the ages."

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