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<\/a>Progressives Push For Anti-Israel Platner Replacement, Spread Conspiracies About Exit<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\nCorey Walker<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Popular progressive pundits are ramping up pressure on party leaders to ensure that any replacement for former Maine Senate nominee Graham Platner is not supportive of Israel or aligned with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), warning that a strongly pro-Israel nominee could deepen divisions within the Democratic coalition.<\/span><\/p>\n Voices calling for an anti-Israel replacement include former cable news host Joy Reid, Majority Report host Emma Vigeland, DropSite founder Ryan Grim, and The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe people of Maine said we want a progressive. They did not say we want an AIPAC moderate,\u201d Reid said on a Wednesday episode of The Joy Reid Show. \u201cIf the DNC shoves an AIPAC candidate down your throat, you have my permission to not vote for them,\u201d she continued, adding that \u201csometimes you need to lose in order to learn.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Reid \u2014 a former MS Now host who has rebranded from an establishment liberal pundit to an anti-Israel polemicist since her firing from the cable outlet \u2014 has previously pushed conspiracies that AIPAC schemed to undermine insurgent progressive campaigns. She said that if Democrats install \u201canother AIPAC sell out moderate\u201d instead of someone who shares Platner\u2019s ideology, Maine voters \u201chave my permission to stay our a\u2014 home.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Vigeland posted a video urging Democrats to replace Platner with a nominee who won\u2019t support American \u201ccomplicity\u201d in what she called a \u201cgenocide\u201d in Gaza, arguing Platner\u2019s Israel views were central to his appeal and that establishment figures want to \u201cforeclose\u201d left-wing debate on the issue.<\/span><\/p>\n Grim, whose outlet DropSite has drawn criticism for an editorial bias favoring Hamas \u2014 referring to the group that killed roughly 1,200 people on Oct. 7 as a \u201cresistance\u201d movement, and employing a contributor who has justified a synagogue attack and said Israelis should be \u201cwiped off the planet\u201d \u2014 questioned why Troy Jackson, the progressive Maine lawmaker who launched his candidacy Wednesday, left \u201cthe Gaza genocide\u201d out of his announcement.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cTroy Jackson put out a statement announcing that he is running for office on a platform of Medicare for all, taking on corporate power, standing up for working people. Conspicuously absent was the Gaza genocide, right? Or an anti-war message,\u201d Grim said.<\/span><\/p>\n Uygur, meanwhile, alleged without evidence that pro-Israel donors were working to sink Platner. \u201cGuess who the biggest donors to the Maine Democratic Party are? Israel First and corporate donors. They have been gunning for Graham Platner from day one,\u201d he wrote on X. Uygur and co-host Ana Kasparian have increasingly centered their show on Israel since Oct. 7, at times accusing Israel of unrelated conspiracies.<\/span><\/p>\n The pressure campaign follows Platner\u2019s exit from the race Wednesday night after a former partner accused him of sexually assaulting her in 2021 \u2014 an allegation he has denied as \u201ctroubling, serious, and false.\u201d Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren were among those who had called on him to withdraw. Even before he dropped out, activists were already lobbying against potential successors seen as friendlier to Israel. Troy Jackson, Secretary of State Shenna Bellows and former COVID response director Nirav Shah have emerged as the leading contenders.<\/span><\/p>\n Progressives argue that replacing Platner with an AIPAC-aligned Democrat would sideline the positions that energized his supporters, including a more critical posture toward Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s government and opposition to unconditional military aid. Pro-Israel Democrats counter that support for Israel remains mainstream within the party and warn that nominating a candidate seen as hostile to the U.S.-Israel alliance could cost Democrats moderate and independent voters against incumbent Republican Sen. Susan Collins.<\/span><\/p>\n The fight is the latest sign of how the Gaza war has become a defining fault line in Democratic primaries, pitting elected officials who back Israel\u2019s right to defend itself against increasingly vocal progressive activists demanding a policy shift.<\/span><\/p>\n Maine Democrats have said they will move quickly to set up a \u201cfair\u201d and \u201ctransparent\u201d process to pick a new nominee before a July 27 deadline. No process or replacement has been finalized, but several top contenders are seen as ideologically aligned with Platner on Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n Zawarto\u015b\u0107 publikowanych artyku\u0142\u00f3w i materia\u0142\u00f3w nie reprezentuje pogl\u0105d\u00f3w ani opinii Reunion’68,<\/em> Progressives Push For Anti-Israel Platner Replacement, Spread Conspiracies About Exit Corey Walker Former MSNBC host Joy Reid. Popular progressive pundits are ramping up pressure on party leaders to ensure that any replacement for former Maine Senate nominee Graham Platner is not supportive of Israel or aligned with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), warning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[33,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132057"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132057"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132076,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132057\/revisions\/132076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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