After Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel, pro-Israel political groups put the Democratic Party’s most outspoken critics of the Jewish state on notice: An avalanche of spending was coming to either unseat them or force them to change their posture on the Middle East.
But the first expeted target of that avalanche, Representative Summer Lee of Pittsburgh, will face only nominal opposition in the Pennsylvania primary on Tuesday.
And though groups like Democratic Majority for Israel and United Democracy Project, an affiliate of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, have raised tens of millions of dollars to make good on their threats, they have so far mostly declined to spend it.
Pro-Israel groups were unable to recruit an experienced, well-known primary challenger to Ms. Lee.
That is not the case in primaries to come, especially Representative Jamaal Bowman’s in New York in June and Representative Cori Bush’s in Missouri in August.
Persons:
Summer Lee, Lee, Jamaal Bowman’s, Cori Bush’s
Organizations:
Israel, Democratic, United Democracy Project, American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Synagogue
Locations:
Israel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Squirrel, New York, Missouri