There's still an electoral penalty for speaking out about the occupation and criticizing israel. A candidate who steaks out a position critical of isIsrael could risk not even having ads run against them that deal with their criticism of is Israel. i don't see it flipping anytime soon unfortunately the insulation of the kind of what we call the american jewish establishment from the people it claims to represent is so thick, he says.
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