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AIPAC's institutional framing of Israel-critical candidates as illegitimate vs. its own collapsing standing across both parties.
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The Piker remark shows that Israel-critical progressives and the candidates allied with them are an antisemitic, terror-sympathizing bloc that belongs outside any legitimate political tent.
The catchEl-Sayed distanced himself from Piker the day after the remark surfaced, and closely parallel warning-shaped statements from Ezra Klein, James Carville, and Dana Bash drew no condemnation.
El-Sayed's refusal to drop Piker shows that he and the Israel-critical progressive bloc share Piker's hostility to America and to Jewish Americans, back Hamas and Iran, and belong outside legitimate politics.
The catchFox News's own account of the 'past statements' behind the charge locates them in a Sharia-compliant home mortgage and a remark about anti-Sharia campaigns, and Axios reported El-Sayed spending the weekend courting the Jewish Democrats the frame says he despises.
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