Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said Thursday that she will skip next month&#8217;s Michigan Democratic Party convention because she fears being harassed, adding another flashpoint to a party increasingly divided over Israel and antisemitism during a bitter U.S. Senate primary.
Speaking during a <a href="https://michiganadvance.com/2026/07/30/nessel-says-she-wont-attend-michigan-dems-convention-over-safety-concerns/">roundtable</a> discussion with Jewish leaders and community members, Nessel said she no longer feels safe attending the party&#8217;s August 29 convention in Lansing after what she described as repeated harassment.
&#8220;I feel like my presence isn&#8217;t going to be welcome. I don&#8217;t want to get chased around. I don&#8217;t want to get harassed. I don&#8217;t want to get yelled and screamed at. I don&#8217;t want to get booed off the stage, irrespective of what I&#8217;m saying,&#8221; Nessel said. &#8220;And I believe that if I go, that is what will happen because it&#8217;s been happening to me.&#8221;
Nessel also criticized Democratic Party leadership for failing to adequately respond to concerns she said she had repeatedly raised about individuals who have targeted her, warning that antisemitism on the political Left has become a growing problem within the party. 
&#8220;I will speak as a member of the Democratic Party here in Michigan, that some things have changed,&#8221; Nessel said. &#8220;This cannot continue, and the fact of the matter is, we have to be able to be a society where we can have intelligent discourse and debate about ideas without people being threatened, and certainly without people carrying out those threats.&#8221;
Her comments come as Michigan Democrats are engaged in one of the country&#8217;s most closely watched Senate primaries, with the party&#8217;s ideological divide over Israel increasingly spilling into public view.
Left-wing candidate Abdul El-Sayed has embraced some of the Democratic Party&#8217;s most vocal anti-Israel activists during the campaign, including <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hasan-piker-michigan-senate-race-abdul-el-sayed/">campaigning</a> with far-Left political streamer Hasan Piker. Third Way, a center-left think tank, <a href="https://x.com/ThirdWayTweet/status/2036484738022596671?s=20">condemned the partnership</a>, calling Piker &#8220;anti-American, anti-women, anti-western and antisemitic&#8221; and arguing he should be &#8220;pushed to the fringe, not welcomed onto the stage.&#8221; El-Sayed dismissed the criticism in an interview with <a href="https://michiganadvance.com/2026/03/25/michigans-el-sayed-unfazed-by-backlash-against-upcoming-campaign-event-with-hasan-piker/">Michigan Advance</a>, portraying it as an attack from establishment Democrats and &#8220;corporate-funded think tanks.&#8221;
Former Senate candidate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/influential-democrat-drops-out-of-primary-in-key-senate-battleground?trueLinkId=6JvjPnkjnAeCumQ6ZN%2BoGpNLJEFZ07Awl5KNTB6i2A1L44xz%2BMg08Mz8M%2BYvzzUKo9coheltLMaAYibfZ9nbDQ%3D%3D&amp;trueLinkTs=1783452774&amp;trueLinkExpiry=43200">Mallory McMorrow</a> has also acknowledged antisemitism within the Democratic Party, recounting an incident at the Democratic National Convention in which, she said, an attendee shouted an antisemitic slur at her Jewish husband while he was walking with their five-year-old daughter. 
&#8220;There is,&#8221; McMorrow <a href="https://jewishinsider.com/2026/05/mcmorrow-says-dems-have-an-antisemitism-problem-during-mich-senate-debate/">replied</a> when asked whether antisemitism was a problem within the party. &#8220;That is terrifying,&#8221; she added.
El-Sayed, by contrast, argued that antisemitism and Islamophobia both stem from &#8220;the scourge of white supremacy&#8221; before pivoting to criticism of U.S. support for Israel. 
&#8220;We can walk and chew gum at the same time,&#8221; El-Sayed said. &#8220;It should not mean that we allow our money to subsidize apartheid and genocide.&#8221;
Responding to Nessel&#8217;s decision not to attend the convention, Michigan Democratic Party spokesman Derrick Honeyman said the party remains committed to ensuring the gathering is safe for all attendees. 
&#8220;We reject antisemitism, Islamophobia, and all forms of hateful conduct,&#8221; Honeyman said. &#8220;We are working diligently with stakeholders, elected officials, and party membership to prepare for our August convention and look forward to welcoming Michigan Democrats to the Lansing Center on August 29.&#8221;

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Former Rep. Cori Bush is attempting a political comeback in the 2026 midterms, hoping to reclaim Missouri&#8217;s deep-blue 1st Congressional District from the Democrat who unseated her two years ago.
Bush, a former member of the far-left Squad, is challenging Rep. Wesley Bell (D-MO) in a rematch of the expensive 2024 Democratic primary. Because the St. Louis-area district is overwhelmingly Democratic, the winner of Tuesday&#8217;s primary is heavily favored to return to Washington in January.
The race has become yet another test of whether the Democratic Party&#8217;s recent leftward shift — fueled by victories from left-wing and Democratic-Socialist candidates in cities like New York, Philadelphia, and Denver — extends towards one of the movement&#8217;s most recognizable national figures.
Bush&#8217;s campaign also revives one of the Democratic Party&#8217;s most contentious internal divides: support for Israel.
When <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/wesley-bell-backed-by-aipac-defeats-squad-member-cori-bush-in-st-louis-distrct-primary">Bell defeated Bush in 2024</a>, the race became one of the most expensive House primaries in American history after pro-Israel groups, led by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee&#8217;s United Democracy Project, poured $9.3 million into the contest. Bush had become one of Congress&#8217; most outspoken critics of Israel after introducing one of the first congressional resolutions calling for a ceasefire following Hamas&#8217; October 7, 2023 terrorist attack.
Bell has continued backing military assistance for Israel while arguing the United States must support allies confronting hostile regimes. &#8220;I think we have to support our allies not only in Israel, but in Taiwan and in Ukraine,&#8221; Bell said during a recent <a href="https://www.stlpr.org/government-politics-issues/2026-07-29/missouri-primary-bush-bell-democrat-litmus">joint appearance</a> with Bush. &#8220;They are on the front lines of our sworn enemies.&#8221;
Over the past year, several insurgent Democratic candidates who criticized party leadership and took hard-line positions against U.S. support for Israel have won competitive primaries, leading progressives to argue that voters are increasingly rewarding candidates willing to challenge the Democratic establishment.
For their part, establishment Democrats, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), and Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) have endorsed Bell&#8217;s reelection. Bell has argued that his first term demonstrates he can effectively work within Congress while delivering results for the district, particularly following the devastating tornado that struck St. Louis in 2025.
Bush has countered that Bell has failed to provide the aggressive leadership voters expected, criticizing what she characterizes as an inadequate response to the tornado recovery effort and arguing the district needs a more confrontational representative willing to challenge both Republicans and Democratic leadership.
&#8220;The fight does not end because I got my feelings hurt,&#8221; Bush <a href="https://19thnews.org/2026/07/cori-bush-missouri-primaries/">told supporters</a>. &#8220;If you&#8217;re a true fighter, you get knocked down, and I got back up.&#8221;
Bush first rose to national prominence as an activist during the 2014 Ferguson protests following the police shooting of Michael Brown before defeating longtime Democratic Rep. William Lacy Clay in 2020. During her two terms in Congress, she became one of the most recognizable members of the Squad alongside Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI).
Her tenure frequently put her at odds with Democratic leadership. Bush opposed former President Joe Biden&#8217;s bipartisan infrastructure package, advocated defunding police departments, slept on the Capitol steps to protest the expiration of the federal eviction moratorium, and became one of Congress&#8217; earliest and loudest critics of Israel.
Bell continues to support military assistance for Israel while Bush remains committed to cutting it off, making the issue one of the few major policy differences separating the candidates, who agree on many domestic issues.
For the left, a Bush victory would mark the return of one of the movement&#8217;s original national standard-bearers and suggest the Democratic Party&#8217;s activist base continues moving leftward after several high-profile primary victories around the country.
For Democratic leadership, another Bell victory would reinforce the coalition that removed Bush from office in 2024 and demonstrate that establishment-backed incumbents can still withstand challenges from the party&#8217;s activist wing.
The Missouri primaries are scheduled for Tuesday, August 4.

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The Cori Bush Comeback? Ex-Squad Member Hopes To Ride Left-Wing Wave Back To Congress

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Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) unloaded on a reporter from radical outlet Drop Site News, claiming that the outlet was actively participating in a race to see who could be the most pro-Hamas.
Fetterman, when approached by a reporter in a Capitol Hill hallway, immediately asked him to identify the outlet he was representing — and upon learning that it was Julian Andreone from Drop Site News, the Pennsylvania senator immediately started questioning him about who funded them.
Andreone introduced himself, and Fetterman immediately asked, &#8220;Who are you with?&#8221;
&#8220;Drop Site News,&#8221; Andreone replied.
&#8220;Oh, you&#8217;re Drop Site!&#8221; Fetterman exclaimed. &#8220;Oh! Now it&#8217;s like a race between who&#8217;s the more pro-Hamas, Drop Site or Zeteo. So now I got both. Hi! Hi, everybody, yeah.&#8221;
&#8220;Do you mind if I ask you a question really quick?&#8221; Andreone asked. &#8220;It&#8217;s about —&#8221;
&#8220;I want your viewers to see how much I love to watch Israel eliminating the Hamas leadership,&#8221; Fetterman interrupted. &#8220;I know that upsets a lot of your viewers and a lot of your founders. But I think it&#8217;s a great thing.&#8221;
&#8220;So, President Trump —&#8221; Andreone attempted to ask a question, but Fetterman filibustered.
&#8220;So there&#8217;s no news coming out of me. I&#8217;m going to always back Israel. The question is, where does your trash outlet come from and who&#8217;s funding it? And if you think —&#8221;
&#8220;46,000 individual donors,&#8221; Andreone insisted.
&#8220;Your founders think it&#8217;s appropriate to attack and kill Israeli civilians. That&#8217;s really — that should be the news overall,&#8221; Fetterman said, referencing Drop Site News co-founder Jeremy Scahill, who recently attempted to get <a href="https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/2077101764277399717">Rep. Ro Khanna</a> (D-CA) to say that the October 7 Hamas-perpetrated attacks on Israeli soldiers may have been &#8220;justified.&#8221; In addition, he argued that the Hamas attackers were specifically targeting Israeli soldiers and that civilians had only been caught in the crossfire.
Scahill also claimed at another time that it was &#8220;<a href="https://www.instagram.com/reels/DQUmws3jrGA/">journalistic malpractice</a>&#8221; for Western outlets to not seek out conversations with Hamas terrorists — to whom he refers as the &#8220;Palestinian armed resistance&#8221; — when covering conflicts in the Middle East.
&#8220;Now you&#8217;re sticking a microphone in my face,&#8221; Fetterman continued. &#8220;There&#8217;s not any news here. I think the question is why does Drop Site love Hamas and Iran and Hezbollah so much? I think that&#8217;s really, I think that&#8217;s the news. I mean, are you OK with taking your paycheck from these kind of people?&#8221;
&#8220;Are you okay with Prime Minister Netanyahu being in the United States?&#8221; Andreone tried one more time to get a question in.
&#8220;I&#8217;m okay,&#8221; Fetterman replied, and with the dramatic timing of Robert Duvall delivering the line, &#8220;I love the smell of napalm in the morning,&#8221; the Pennsylvania senator got five words in just as the elevator door closed behind him: &#8220;I love killing Hamas leadership.&#8221;

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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani&#8217;s plan to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu came to a screeching halt and turned into a social media post on Tuesday night after he realized mayors cannot arrest foreign leaders. 
“My administration has reviewed every avenue available under applicable law to determine whether New York City could execute the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant if Benjamin Netanyahu came here,” he said. “It is clear that we do not have the independent legal authority to enforce this warrant.” 
Mamdani then said that even though his administration does not have the authority to arrest Netanyahu, he wants “to be equally clear, Benjamin Netanyahu is not welcome in New York City.” 
Mamdani then called on President Donald Trump to execute the International Criminal Court’s warrant. On Monday, Trump said that Netanyahu will not be arrested “in any way, shape, or form while in the United States of America.” 
Trump’s comments came after Netanyahu&#8217;s office responded to Mamdani’s original arrest threat, saying, “The ICC is a kangaroo court that has no jurisdiction over Americans or Israelis. Its bogus arrest warrant against Prime Minister Netanyahu was issued by a disgraced former ICC Prosecutor, Karim Khan, a few days before allegations of sexual misconduct against him became public. It was a clear attempt by Khan to divert public attention and seek protection from scrutiny.&#8221;
“Instead of backing Khan&#8217;s criminal behavior, Mr. Mamdani should focus on fixing the damage his policies have caused New York,&#8221; Netanyahu&#8217;s office added. 
The Israeli prime minister is <a href="https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/mamdani-arresting-netanyahu-visits-nyc-un-general-assembly/">expected</a> to travel to New York City for the United Nations General Assembly this fall. 
While Mamdani focuses on condemning Netanyahu, New York City continues to face challenges with violent crime and the economy. On Monday, an anti-ICE activist lit an incendiary device at the entrance to the city’s largest immigration court. Months earlier, two men threw improvised explosive devices into a crowd of people protesting. The bombs did not detonate. 
Affordability — the centerpiece of Mamdani&#8217;s campaign — has also remained a major concern. In the last month, Manhattan&#8217;s median asking rent <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/07/13/us-news/nyc-housing-crisis-hits-defcon-1-as-rents-jump-to-more-all-time-highs/">climbed</a> to a record $5,295, an 8% increase from a year earlier. 
In his seventh month in office, Mamdani&#8217;s approval rating sits at under <a href="https://www.thetimes.com/us/news-today/article/zohran-mamdani-approval-rating-polls-popularity-32vr9jqhm">40%</a>. While Mamdani remains most popular with young New Yorkers, his popularity with baby boomers saw a large increase, from 21% to 35%, since he was elected.
Mamdani&#8217;s success has lifted the democratic socialist movement across the country with other members gaining traction. Two Democratic Socialists of America-backed candidates recently won congressional primaries for U.S. House in New York City.

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A shareholder revolt against The New York Times is gaining serious legal muscle, with a growing bloc of law firms now threatening to drag the paper of record into court unless it hands over internal records probing whether its board has been asleep at the wheel while the newsroom churns out coverage slanted against Israel.
On Tuesday, the National Center for Public Policy Research, backed by the National Jewish Advocacy Center (NJAC) and two heavyweight firms, fired off a fresh <a href="https://freebeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Renewed-and-Supplemental-Demand-for-Inspection-of-Books-and-Records-of-The-New-York-Times-Company.pdf">demand letter</a> giving Times brass until July 21 to cough up board materials or face a lawsuit in Manhattan&#8217;s Supreme Court, The Washington Free Beacon <a href="https://freebeacon.com/media/exclusive-two-new-law-firms-threaten-new-york-times-with-shareholder-suit-over-gaza-rape-story-and-softball-investigation-of-platner-accuse-times-of-push/">reported</a> on Tuesday.
&#8220;The inclusion of two new prominent law firms — Grant &amp; Eisenhofer and Schall, Brown &amp; Schwartz — on NJAC&#8217;s campaign suggests that the Times may face difficulty dismissing their fresh concerns, which extend past mere anti-Israel bias to now encompass velvet-gloved reporting on two high-profile, anti-Israel Democrats,&#8221; the Free Beacon noted.
This is round two. The coalition first came knocking in May, furious over a widely panned Nicholas Kristof column that accused Israeli forces of using dogs to sexually assault Palestinian detainees — allegations that leaned heavily on sources tied to Hamas and that the paper&#8217;s own executive editor later admitted his newsroom &#8220;probably wouldn&#8217;t have&#8221; run &#8220;that exact piece.&#8221;
Now the group says things have only gotten worse. Its new target: the Times&#8217; soft-touch June investigation into Senate candidate Graham Platner, who was accused by ex-girlfriend Lyndsey Fifield of a horrifying pattern of abuse. The paper said it couldn&#8217;t corroborate her account — even though, Fifield says, she handed reporters witnesses, screenshots, diary entries, and more. Platner&#8217;s campaign didn&#8217;t implode until a second woman, this time a Democrat, told POLITICO he&#8217;d raped her.
The lawyers argue the Times gave shifting, contradictory explanations for its reporting standards — telling one outlet the story met &#8220;our standards,&#8221; and another that it only included facts that were confirmable — and say that inconsistency alone justifies letting shareholders peek behind the curtain.
&#8220;Stockholder seeks to investigate whether the Board is engaging in any form of oversight to ensure that the New York Times remains a news reporting agency worth anything to its stockholders, rather than becoming viewed by the public as a simple propaganda arm that selects its articles and reporting in a way that ignores truth in favor of pushing false narratives,&#8221; the letter states.
The letter also revives an ugly side-by-side: a March story that framed New York Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman&#8217;s wife as courting controversy over pro-Israel social media likes, versus a far gentler piece days later about democratic socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani&#8217;s wife, who&#8217;d liked posts celebrating the October 7 massacre. Critics say the paper bent over backward to protect one and pounce on the other.
Beyond the Israel-related complaints, the filing dredges up the Times&#8217; long history of humiliating corrections — from the Wen Ho Lee <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/26/nyregion/the-times-and-wen-ho-lee.html">spying debacle</a> to the &#8220;Caliphate&#8221; <a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/12/18/944594193/new-york-times-retracts-hit-podcast-series-caliphate-on-isis-executioner">podcast hoax</a> to a <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/york-times-retracts-massive-exaggeration-163906675.html">wildly inflated</a> child COVID hospitalization figure — arguing it all points to a board that looks away until public embarrassment forces its hand.
The Times, for its part, isn&#8217;t budging, with a spokeswoman dismissing the campaign, saying, “As we told the National Jewish Advocacy Center and National Center for Public Policy Research in response to an earlier demand letter, while positioned under corporate law, it is a clear attempt to chill First Amendment-protected journalism.”
But the shareholders insist this isn&#8217;t about politics or the First Amendment — it&#8217;s about whether the people overseeing America&#8217;s most influential newspaper are actually doing their jobs. If the Times doesn&#8217;t blink by July 21, the fight moves to a courtroom.

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Pennsylvania Democratic Governor Josh Shapiro wants the White House. On Wednesday, that ambition was on full display as he tap-danced around a direct question about his party&#8217;s newest crop of Israel-bashing socialists — brushing off the widening rift as a distraction from his own brand of buttoned-up &#8220;pragmatism.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.ms.now/morning-joe/watch/gov-shapiro-trump-s-chaos-and-cruelty-is-infecting-everything-2505282115932">Pressed</a> by MS NOW&#8217;s Willie Geist on whether hard-Left firebrands out of New York and Colorado risk becoming the face of the Democratic Party nationally, Shapiro punted.
“Do you worry, though, governor, about some of these candidates in these high-profile races in New York and now in Colorado will be elevated as representative of Democrats nationally with some of their extreme views?” Geist asked.
“I mean, look — here in Pennsylvania, folks know what pragmatism results and getting stuff done looks like, because they see me, they see other Democrats who are doing that in our commonwealth. Look, I want to work with anyone to get stuff done,” Shapiro replied.
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Shorter Josh Shapiro to the Jew-hating communists who&#39;ve taken over the Democrat Party: Please, please, eat me last <a href="https://t.co/lmJdXJ6WkW">pic.twitter.com/lmJdXJ6WkW</a>
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Shapiro refused to confront the elephant — or camel — in the room.
That elephant has a name, or rather <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/24/israel-critics-sweep-new-york-house-primaries-signaling-democratic/">several</a>. Brad Lander, the self-styled &#8220;liberal Zionist&#8221; who in his victory speech accused Israel of “genocide” and “apartheid” and declared that Americans were “paying for Netanyahu’s wars with our tax dollars.”
New York U.S. House candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier <a href="https://www.cityandstateny.com/politics/2026/06/avila-chevalier-attended-oct-8-pro-palestinian-rally-lander-condemned/413981/">showed up</a> to a Times Square rally the day after Hamas butchered 1,200 Israelis — October 8, 2023 — and later refused to condemn the attacks at a candidate forum, instead <a href="https://www.cityandstateny.com/politics/2026/06/avila-chevalier-attended-oct-8-pro-palestinian-rally-lander-condemned/413981/">lecturing</a> moderators about “75 years of occupation.” She spent her New York primary campaign branding Israel an “apartheid state.”
Another New York U.S. House candidate, Claire Valdez, marched with the anti-Zionist group Jewish Voice for Peace for years, reportedly co-sponsored Mamdani’s “Not on Our Dime!” legislation targeting charities that fund West Bank settlements, and <a href="https://www.cityandstateny.com/politics/2026/06/mysterious-pro-reynoso-super-pac-funded-teachers-union-not-aipac/414238/">falsely accused</a> her opponent, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, of being bankrolled by AIPAC — a claim her own campaign finance filings blew up.
And now Colorado&#8217;s Melat Kiros, fresh off toppling 15-term Rep. Diana DeGette while <a href="https://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/jta/really-alarmed-jewish-groups-concerned-about-democratic-socialist-on-colorado-ballot/article_447c18dd-fa78-5de5-95f7-60e2650d1014.html">calling</a> for a total arms embargo on the Jewish state and refusing to label the Boulder firebombing an act of antisemitism.
All were cheered on by Mayor Mamdani&#8217;s growing socialist machine. None drew so much as a syllable of pushback from Shapiro on air.
It&#8217;s not hard to see why. Shapiro, still nursing the sting of getting passed over for Kamala Harris&#8217;s ticket in 2024 — a snub widely chalked up to Democratic squeamishness about his faith — knows exactly how combustible this topic is for a man eyeing 2028. Distance yourself too loudly from the socialist wing and risk the base. Cozy up and risk everything else.
Except Shapiro&#8217;s own recent Israel commentary has <a href="https://www.jns.org/opinion/morton-a-klein/pennsylvania-jewish-governor-wrongly-points-fingers-at-trump-and-netanyahu?utm_source=chatgpt.com">hardly been a profile in courage</a>. On the &#8220;All-In&#8221; podcast, he accused Benjamin Netanyahu of &#8220;leading around&#8221; and &#8220;bullying&#8221; Trump into confronting Iran — the same &#8220;bully&#8221; label he&#8217;s slapped on Trump himself over Venezuela and Canada, but somehow reserved for Israel&#8217;s prime minister when Tehran was the target. Critics, including the Zionist Organization of America, called the framing straight out of the &#8220;Jews control America&#8221; playbook — a particularly bitter irony for a governor whose own home was firebombed on the first night of Passover last year.
NewsBusters Managing Editor Curtis Houck summed up Shapiro&#8217;s comments well when he wrote, &#8220;Josh Shapiro to the Jew-hating communists who&#8217;ve taken over the Democrat Party: Please, please, eat me last.&#8221;

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‘Eat Me Last’: Josh Shapiro Makes 2028 Calculation To Indulge The Israel-Hating Left

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Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY), one of Congress&#8217;s most outspoken supporters of Israel, easily defeated a Left-wing primary challenger Tuesday night, surviving an effort by leftist activists to unseat him and drawing an angry response from anti-Israel communist commentator Hasan Piker.
Torres cruised to victory in New York&#8217;s 15th congressional district, defeating former state Assemblyman Michael Blake by a wide margin. With nearly all votes counted, Torres captured roughly 72% of the vote compared to Blake&#8217;s 22%.
The result represents a significant victory for one of the Democratic Party&#8217;s most prominent pro-Israel voices at a time when leftist activists have increasingly targeted lawmakers who support the Jewish state. Among those reacting furiously to the outcome was Left-wing streamer Piker, who has frequently clashed with Torres over Israel, antisemitism, and foreign policy.
&#8220;Ritchie Torres I know you won tonight … I was coming for you but you got lucky this time … I&#8217;ll see you in two, motherf*ck*r … Ritchie! I&#8217;m coming for you, Richie,&#8221; Piker said after the results became clear. &#8220;Sit on that f*ckin seat for the next two years … I hope you remember that.&#8221;
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&#8220;Ritchie Torres I know you won tonight. I&#8217;ll see you in two years, motherfucker. I&#8217;m coming for you, Richie.
Sit on that fuckin seat for the next two years. I hope you remember… <a href="https://t.co/rjRcMzcgtA">pic.twitter.com/rjRcMzcgtA</a>
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Piker continued by warning Torres that he would continue scrutinizing the congressman&#8217;s pro-Israel positions. &#8220;Every day, every time there&#8217;s a decision that you can make where you are pro-Israel, I hope you remember. … You better act right, Ritchie.&#8221;
The remarks highlight a years-long feud between the congressman and one of the internet&#8217;s most influential leftist commentators.
Torres has repeatedly accused Piker of spreading antisemitic rhetoric and promoting anti-American extremism. In 2024, Torres sent a <a href="https://ritchietorres.house.gov/congressman-ritchie-torres-writes-to-executives-at-twitch-and-amazon-hasan-piker-is-dangerous">letter</a> to Twitch and Amazon executives condemning Piker, whom he described as a major source of antisemitic content online.
The congressman&#8217;s letter cited a series of controversial statements from Piker, including comments minimizing the significance of sexual violence committed during Hamas&#8217;s October 7 attack on Israel, remarks sympathetic to Hezbollah, and his infamous claim that &#8220;America deserved 9/11.&#8221;
Torres also accused Piker of platforming extremists and helping fuel the rise of antisemitism on social media.
Despite becoming a frequent target of attacks from his left flank, Torres has continued to carve out a unique position within the Democratic Party. The Bronx congressman formally broke with the Congressional Progressive Caucus in 2024 and has become one of the most forceful Democratic critics of anti-Israel activism.
Blake attempted to capitalize on growing dissatisfaction with Israel among Democratic voters and had previously aligned himself politically with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani during last year&#8217;s mayoral race.
However, Mamdani notably stayed out of the congressional contest, depriving Blake of the endorsement many on the Left of Torres hoped would help unite the anti-Torres vote.
Torres also enjoyed a massive fundraising advantage throughout the campaign. Federal filings showed the congressman raising nearly $6.7 million compared to roughly $412,000 for Blake.
The decisive victory suggests that while socialist and leftist candidates scored several victories elsewhere in New York on Tuesday, efforts to oust Torres failed to gain meaningful traction among Democratic voters in the Bronx.
Instead, voters handed Torres another overwhelming primary victory and rejected one of the highest-profile attempts by the Democratic Party&#8217;s activists to punish a lawmaker for his support of Israel.
For Piker and other anti-Israel activists who have spent years attacking Torres online, Tuesday night&#8217;s results amounted to a clear setback. For Torres, they served as another demonstration that his brand of unapologetic support for Israel remains politically viable even as much of his party continues moving Left on the issue.

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President Donald Trump and Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) blasted &#8220;Dumocrat Communists&#8221; and the “dirt bag Left” after the success of democratic socialist candidates in New York’s U.S. House primaries on Tuesday. 
As all three socialist congressional candidates backed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani won their congressional primaries, Fetterman said war was being declared on “regular Democrats&#8221; and that his party was becoming increasingly out of step with the American people. 
“It&#8217;s just been the dancing days of the dirt bag Left with some of these candidates are outrageous,” Fetterman <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6399220644112">said</a> in an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity. “You have candidates they [want to] abolish ICE, abolish the police, abolish the border.”
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Far-Left Democrat socialists Claire Valdez and Darializa Avila Chevalier both declared victory in their respective primary races. Avila Chevalier is a self-described “prison abolitionist” and opposes deporting any illegal immigrants. 
“A lot of these candidates that very likely are going to win tonight, just declaring a war on just regular Democrats,” Fetterman said.
“They&#8217;re all socialists, of course, and now there&#8217;s a communist and now a Marxist,” he said. “We have P-Hustle in Maine. You know, that&#8217;s another one. He&#8217;s a self-avowed communist, too. Well, that&#8217;s not even looked down on, and it&#8217;s a significant part of the Democratic Party right now.”
“P-Hustle” was the username that Maine Democrat nominee Graham Platner used for years to post anti-Christian, vulgar, and sexual comments on social media. 
In addition to the victories of Valdez and Avila Chevalier, former New York comptroller Brad Lander defeated incumbent Rep. Dan Goldman. 
President Donald Trump also reacted to the results from New York, writing on Truth Social early Wednesday morning, &#8220;America the Beautiful will NEVER be a Communist Country!!!&#8221;
In another post Wednesday morning, Trump called out &#8220;Dumocrat Communists.&#8221;
&#8220;Even though he tried unsuccessfully to prosecute me, and despite the fact that he is a major Slimeball, I feel sorry for FORMER Congressman Dan Goldman. He is wandering aimlessly, together with the former husband of the great Kellyanne Conway, through a large field of Dumocrat Communists, trying so hard to find his way &#8211; A very sad finish for a man who has no clue, and never did!!!&#8221; Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116804998509920399">wrote</a>.
Fetterman added that his party has been taken over by the “full pro-Hamas wing.” He added that hate for Israel has become “the center of a lot of these primaries across the country, and definitely, definitely, what we&#8217;re witnessing in New York City.”
“Now that&#8217;s going to become the lesson that the Democratic Party is going to continue to be anti-Israel, and I&#8217;ll be the one that&#8217;s going to continue to lean in and be proud to stand with Israel,” Fetterman said. 
The results could prove to be troublesome for House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) who endorsed the opponents of both Lander and Avila Chevalier. 
Reacting to the results, GOP spokesman Mike Marinella said that Americans should be “terrified.” 
“Tonight wasn’t just a bad night for so-called ‘Leader’ Hakeem Jeffries,” he said. “It was the night the Democrat establishment officially surrendered to Zohran Mamdani and the socialist wing of their party. Every House Democrat, in safe and competitive districts alike, will now answer to the radicals calling the shots. And Americans should be terrified by where the Democrat Party is headed.”

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A federal immigration judge on Wednesday ordered the deportation of Mohsen Mahdawi, an anti-Israel activist and Columbia University graduate who has become a target of the Trump administration&#8217;s crackdown on foreign students accused of supporting terrorist organizations. 
Mahdawi, a Vermont resident originally from the Judea and Samaria area, was ordered removed to Jordan after abandoning his asylum claim, <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/10/mohsen-mahdawi-columbia-deportation-00957506?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter">according to Politico.</a> He has appealed the ruling to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. 
The activist first drew national attention in March 2025 when Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested him during a citizenship interview.
Two weeks later, a district court judge released Mahdawi. In February 2026, his deportation case was dismissed, but the federal government appealed the decision.
In April, the Board of Immigration Appeals reinstated removal proceedings against Mahdawi, according to a letter from his attorneys <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca2.9122336d-3eb3-4022-aba2-4f11ea8a7dfd/gov.uscourts.ca2.9122336d-3eb3-4022-aba2-4f11ea8a7dfd.232.0.pdf">obtained by Politico.</a> After Mahdawi abandoned his asylum claim, an immigration judge ordered him removed from the United States.
According to the American Civil Liberties Union, the Trump administration argued that Mahdawi&#8217;s activism was “<a href="https://www.mynbc5.com/article/mohsen-mahdawi-appeals-deportation/71550841">harmful to U.S. foreign policy.”</a>
Mahdawi attended Columbia University, where he co-founded the Palestinian Student Union with Mahmoud Khalil, another anti-Israel activist detained and facing deportation, <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/10/mohsen-mahdawi-columbia-deportation-00957506?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter">according to Politico. </a>
&#8220;I come from a refugee camp in Palestine, where my family still resides. I know what it means to live without rights, without voice, without safety. America was the first place I ever felt true freedom and dignity,” Mahdawi <a href="https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/mohsen-mahdawi-appeals-retaliatory-ruling-from-board-of-immigration-appeals-to-federal-appeals-court">said in a statement.</a> 
“For over a decade, I have built my life here, loved this community, and chosen this country&#8217;s ideals as my own. When a government weaponizes immigration to punish speech, millions of immigrants and citizens feel that blow,” he added. 
Mahdawi&#8217;s detention was part of a broader Trump administration effort targeting foreign college students accused of expressing support for designated terrorist organizations. The State Department has also revoked thousands of student visas.
The administration is separately pursuing the deportation of Khalil.
“Khalil led activities aligned to Hamas, a designated terrorist organization,” then-DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/anti-israel-activist-detained-by-ice-led-activities-aligned-to-hamas-trumps-dhs-says">announced</a> last year.
“It is a privilege, not a right, to be in this country to live or to study,&#8221; she added. &#8220;And if you are pushing propaganda that relishes the killings of Americans or promotes terrorists, the door’s that way.”
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Democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) was interrupted by far-Left anti-Israel protesters while defending an anti-Israel Senate candidate on Monday.
During an event for the National Press Club, a protester shouted about Israel while Sanders was defending Senate hopeful Graham Platner, who has a Nazi-linked tattoo and has been accused of abusing former girlfriends.
&#8220;Israel doesn&#8217;t need defensive systems! They&#8217;re a genocidal apartheid state!&#8221; a male protester shouted at Sanders. &#8220;And let me remind you, 59 years ago, Israel attacked the USS Liberty and killed 34 Americans!&#8221; The man was escorted out of the venue.
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At another point during the interview, a woman wearing a hijab stood up and shouted, &#8220;Israel needs to be stopped!&#8221;
&#8220;How dare you continue to support Israel when they keep killing Palestinians,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;There&#8217;s a genocide! Shame on you, Bernie, for not speaking up!&#8221; The woman was also escorted from the room.
Platner, who is running for the U.S. Senate in Maine, has previously claimed that he didn&#8217;t understand the significance of his tattoo, which was a symbol used by Nazi Germany’s SS. However, recent accounts reported in the New York Times seem to contradict that narrative.
&#8220;I&#8217;m gonna do everything I can to make sure that Graham Platner is the next senator from the state of Maine,&#8221; Sanders said at the event before the disruption.
After one protester was escorted out, Sanders turned his attention to Republicans to explain his support for Platner. &#8220;Republican super PACs have already lined up some $99 million just on TV ads to defeat him. Why is that? Do you think they&#8217;re worried about his views or what his relationships to women has been? I don&#8217;t think so. What they&#8217;re worried about is that he&#8217;s going to be a strong voice against oligarchy.&#8221;
The senator also connected Platner&#8217;s past controversies to having PTSD. &#8220;He&#8217;s [now] gotten his life together,&#8221; Sanders said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know what is true or not true. &#8230; There are people in the United States Senate right now who are not saints.&#8221;
Sanders similarly dismissed Platner&#8217;s troubling background earlier this month, saying, “Is he a saint? I guess not. I don’t know too many saints here.”
Platner is expected to cruise to victory in Tuesday&#8217;s Democratic primary for Maine&#8217;s U.S. Senate seat after Democratic Governor Janet Mills suspended her campaign at the end of April. Mills remains on the ballot, however, having never formally withdrawn, and has reminded voters that her name will still appear in the primary. The winner of the Democratic primary will challenge Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) in the November general election.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ex-platner-staffer-calls-bs-on-dems-excuse-for-nazi-tattoo-troubling-behavior">Ex-Platner Staffer Calls BS On Dem’s Excuse For Nazi Tattoo, Troubling Behavior</a>

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Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed has finally said the quiet part out loud.
The far-Left Democratic darling — currently locked in a three-way primary to succeed retiring Democratic Sen. Gary Peters — blew up his own outreach efforts at a &#8220;Jews for Abdul&#8221; campaign event in Pontiac, Michigan, after admitting he &#8220;struggles&#8221; to answer whether Israel has a right to exist as a Jewish state.
In a leaked audio recording obtained by <a href="https://jewishinsider.com/2026/05/abdul-el-sayed-struggles-israel-right-to-exist-jewish-state/">Jewish Insider</a>, the Bernie Sanders-backed radical didn’t just sidestep the question — he turned on his own audience and demanded they justify Israel’s existence under “liberal values.”
&#8220;I often struggle with the question that people ask in this particular scenario, because what they now ask is, ‘Do you believe in the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish state,’ which, to me, forces the question of a definition of what a Jewish state means,” El-Sayed barked back at an audience member who called him out for dodging inquiries on the Jewish state.
He then took it a step further, aggressively turning the tables on the crowd. “I need folks who want to ask me that question [to explain] what it is that they mean by that, and how that is consistent with any form of liberal values that we say we believe in here in the United States,&#8221; El-Sayed said.
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The epidemiologist and anti-establishment favorite then rolled out the standard far-Left playbook, smearing America&#8217;s ally by accusing Israel of implementing &#8220;apartheid&#8221; in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza. He further grumbled that the question of Israel’s right to exist unfairly overlooks “the rights of people who’ve been displaced by Israeli action” dating back to 1948.
El-Sayed’s statements took place in front of a paltry audience of just a &#8220;few dozen&#8221; people, according to campaign photos — at least one of whom wasn&#8217;t even Jewish, according to Jewish Insider.
The shock audio drops a massive bomb on El-Sayed’s already controversial campaign, which has sent shockwaves of panic through Michigan&#8217;s sizable Jewish community. The leftist Muslim candidate has repeatedly faced fierce backlash for cozying up to toxic anti-Israel extremists.
El-Sayed sparked fury following a terrifying Hezbollah-inspired terrorist attack at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, where a fanatic attempted to murder 140 children by driving an explosive-laden truck into the synagogue&#8217;s preschool. El-Sayed rationalized the near-massacre, declaring that &#8220;hurt people hurt people.&#8221;
Worse yet, El-Sayed followed the synagogue attack by boasting about joint campaign appearances with Hasan Piker — a toxic, self-described Marxist Twitch streamer who has previously slurred Orthodox Jews as &#8220;inbred&#8221; and claimed America deserved the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Insiders say the leaked audio confirms what critics have warned about for months: El-Sayed is eagerly currying favor with the hardline Islamist political infrastructure in Dearborn. A previous leaked recording already caught El-Sayed ordering his staff to stay silent on the joint U.S.-Israeli elimination of Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei earlier this year, explicitly admitting he didn&#8217;t want to anger Dearborn voters who would be &#8220;sad&#8221; over the death of the theocratic, terror-sponsoring butcher.
El-Sayed’s latest anti-Israel comments make it crystal clear whose side he&#8217;s on.

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At least 272 times. That’s how often Doctors Without Borders accused Israel of “genocide” in social media posts following the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023. Beyond the obviously disproportionate emphasis, the NGO, known in French as MSF (Médecins Sans Frontières), added its considerable voice to a political campaign in which the label genocide is reinterpreted uniquely for Israel, and in which the evidence is cynically manipulated.
As this and many other activities demonstrated, MSF has abandoned its mission of medical neutrality in joining virulent anti-Israel campaigns and abdicated its credibility, as a <a href="https://ngo-monitor.org/reports/ngo-malpractice-msf-doctors-without-borders-and-the-gaza-genocide-campaign/">new detailed research report from NGO Monitor</a> documents.
MSF repeated the false genocide accusation obsessively in press briefings, via actions by regional branches, and across social accounts. At least 272 times. It did not apply the label to Russia’s war in Ukraine nor to massive and indiscriminate regime bombing in Syria. Its focus cannot even be attributed to the centrality of Israel and Gaza in Western media; MSF all but ignored Hamas’ taking of Israeli hostages, referencing them as primary subjects in only three posts across all its international feeds – less than 1.1% of its “genocide” accusations.
To further anti-Israel narratives, MSF egregiously violated its claims of “strict adherence to humanitarian principles, independence, and medical ethics” following the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023. This would be concerning on its own, but it is especially horrific coming from a long-respected medical aid group.
“Genocide” is a consequential term. Coined by Jewish scholar Raphael Lemkin in the shadow of the Holocaust to denote its unprecedented evil, the label has rightly been sparingly employed, necessitating thresholds of mass carnage and, according to Lemkin, the “intent to destroy.”
In the Gaza conflict, there is clearly no intent on the part of Israel, other than to prevent Hamas from perpetrating another October 7-like calamity. Nevertheless, from the earliest moments of the Israeli response, MSF advanced increasingly defamatory labels for Israeli actions while consistently whitewashing Hamas’ crimes. MSF’s first social media post hours into the Hamas invasion – as hundreds of terrorists were still rampaging across southern Israel, murdering civilians, carrying out sexual atrocities, and taking hostages – was an <a href="https://x.com/MSF/status/1710665419164373462">unverified accusation</a> that Israel had caused the death of a nurse and an ambulance driver, dryly referencing a backdrop of “escalation between Israel and Gaza.”
Its press release on October 8 attempted <a href="https://www.msf.org/msf-performs-surgeries-donates-supplies-gaza-amid-overcrowded-facilities">to focus attention</a> on Israeli aggression and Gazan victimhood – again, as Hamas terrorists were still present in Israel. The statement included a casualty count provided by the Hamas-controlled Gaza Ministry of Health, and only briefly mentioned the Israeli death toll, without addressing the Hamas assault.
MSF’s role as a primary source of misinformation came to an early head on October 17, when a large explosion occurred in the vicinity of Gaza’s Al-Ahli hospital. Within a very short time, the NGO issued and intensely promoted a <a href="https://www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/msf-condemns-bombing-of-ahli-arab-hospital-in-gaza/">press release</a> quoting Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah, an MSF doctor who called the event “a massacre,” and who was paraded across Western media as an expert eyewitness to this ostensible example of “Israeli brutality.” In <a href="https://quillette.com/2025/12/10/the-humanitarian-mask-medecins-sans-frontieres-doctors-without-borders-gaza-israel/">further MSF-arranged interviews</a>, he used the event to accuse Israel of “systematically destroying Gaza’s health infrastructure,” and called it the moment he decided that Israel’s military campaign “stopped being a war, and became a genocide.”
But subsequent government analyses by the United States, Canada, and France, as well as an investigation by the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/23/pageoneplus/editors-note-gaza-hospital-coverage.html">New York Times</a>, concluded that the damage to the hospital was minimal and had been caused by a misfired Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket. Yet MSF never retracted or amended its claims, so that anyone using its reports and posts would continue to conclude that Israel was to be blamed for a “massacre.”
This trend of knee-jerk Israel demonization mounted as the war continued. In an <a href="https://www.msf.org/letter-gaza-un-security-council">open letter</a> to the UN Security Council on December 4, 2023, MSF International President Christos Christou accused Israel of “incessant and indiscriminate warfare,” and argued that “subjecting an entire population to collective punishment is a war crime under International Humanitarian Law” – assertions far beyond the purview of this ostensibly medical NGO. In October 2024, MSF <a href="https://www.msf.org/israel-and-allies-must-bring-year-long-war-gaza-end">accused Israel</a> of “unmitigated slaughter” without acknowledging Hamas’ exploitation of medical facilities (<a href="https://ngo-monitor.org/reports/hamas-misuse-hospitals-docs/">documented in depth</a> by NGO Monitor).
And in December 2024, MSF graduated to “genocide.” The NGO published a <a href="https://www.msf.org/life-death-trap-gaza-palestine">report</a> entitled “Life in a Death Trap,” framing Israel’s campaign to return its hostages and eliminate the Hamas threat as “crushing an entire population under bombs and rubble,” “ethnic cleansing,” and attempting “to unravel the very fabric of society in Gaza.”
MSF did acknowledge that it “do[es not] have legal authority to establish intentionality,” a core requirement for any finding of genocide. No matter, MSF decided: “our firsthand observations…are consistent with the descriptions provided by an increasing number of legal experts and organizations concluding that genocide is taking place in Gaza.” The only legal body MSF referenced, though, was the International Court of Justice (ICJ) – and MSF’s version markedly misrepresents the ICJ’s <a href="https://www.ajc.org/news/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-latest-international-court-of-justice-action-in-the-case">provisional</a> ruling, which did not actually make any determination on whether genocide had occurred.
MSF was founded in order to provide medical assistance to those most in need. Its recent behavior, however, has undermined that goal, stripping away the organization’s benevolent facade. Humanitarians do not ignore the actions of terrorist organizations. And humanitarians do not spread heinous allegations of “genocide” against the victims of hardened and unrepentant terrorist groups.
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Prof. Gerald M. Steinberg is founder and president of the NGO Monitor research institute.

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