“We want to show that there are people in his intended base who are concerned about U.S. policy in the Middle East region as being dogmatically pro-Israel,' one protest organizer told Newsweek.
Pete Buttigieg officially launched his 2020 presidential campaign on Sunday, with more than 5,000 people gathering to support the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, in his bid to become the country’s youngest and first openly gay president.
Demonstrators said they were not opposed to Buttigieg as a candidate, with some actually voicing general approval of his candidacy. But they hoped to nudge him on his foreign policy, particularly as it relates to Israel and its neighbors in the Middle East. While progressive Democrats in Congress have grown more vocally critical of Israel, with two members supporting the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement against the nation, Buttigieg has a record of speaking positively about Israel.
“There really is not a unified or single voice for the Palestinian people,” he said. “Most people aren’t aware of the difference between what’s happening in Gaza—run by Hamas in a way that is contributing to a lot of misery there—but also totally different than an environment where you’d have a negotiating partner across the table.”
Despite the criticism of Netanyahu, some critics see Buttigieg as still too overtly supportive of Israel. Buttigieg “seems to uncritically regurgitate the Israeli propaganda without any sensitivity to the Palestinian and Syrian grievances, and even suggests the Israeli approach may hold lessons for the U.S.,” Ash said.
Meanwhile, Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, who backs the BDS movement, has been attacked by leading Democrats and Republicans for comments she made about Israel, with critics accusing her of anti-Semitism. President Donald Trump and right-wing supporters have repeatedly blasted the progressive congresswoman, and many prominent Democrats have rebuked some of her comments.
Prominent American Jewish groups that have criticized the Israeli government have also voiced their support for the congresswoman. “More than ever, Jewish Voice for Peace stands with Representative Ilhan Omar—under nearly constant attack by far right politicians and not defended nearly enough by fellow Democrats,” the Jewish-American group Jewish Voice for Peace wrote in a Facebook post last week. “She needs all of us to show support now.
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