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Progressive US Jews caught out by Ocasio-Cortez snubbing

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Published: 6 October 2020

Last updated: 4 March 2024

Leaders in danger of burrowing into an ideological rabbit hole over lawmaker’s decision not to speak at Rabin memorial. Muslim congressman Keith Ellison to speak instead

America’s Jewish leftists are heading for self-righteous irrelevance, just like Israel’s (Haaretz)
ANSHEL PFEFFER: The Israeli left shrunk to a tiny, marginalised shadow when, shunning all others, it went down an ideologically pure rabbit-hole. When US Jewish progressives urge AOC to shun Rabin, they’re following the same forlorn path

Keith Ellison to speak at Rabin memorial snubbed by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Times of Israel)
Ellison, first Muslim elected to Congress, will join Americans for Peace Now event commemorating 25 years since assassination

New York Jewish leaders perplexed that AOC won’t engage with them (Jewish Insider)
Freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appears to have only participated in three publicly known Jewish events in New York

Photo: US Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at a political event in New York, September 19 (Andrew Kelly/Reuters)
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