Hakeem Jeffries on Israel

For a Democrat, he's as bad as they get.

I don’t think the money he raises from AIPAC (it’s his top donor) is the sole reason the House Democratic leader is dragging his feet about endorsing Zohran Mamdani.

He’s an old fashioned corporate Democrats and Mamdani terrifies Jeffries friends on Wall Street, the banks, the landlords, etc.

But Israel is definitely a big factor. His top donors happen to back the Gaza genocide which must be the reason Jeffries has yet to say a single word about it. Every statement he has made about the Gaza war stresses Israeli suffering while tacking on, at the end, a few words of sympathy for the Palestinians, carefully worded as if they died in an epidemic.

I’d hate to see him become Speaker in 2026, should Democrats actually win the House. We have a few dozen good anti-genocide Representatives. Why even contemplate as leader one who can’t find his voice on the worst crime of this century?

He would however be a great VP for the godawful failed former mayor of Chicago, racist Rahm Emanuel, should he actually run for president although it’s unlikely that guy would be comfortable with an African American on his “let’s go back to the days of Woodrow Wilson” ticket.