WALL STREET JOURNAL
What Raphael Warnock Believes About Israel
by Barton Swaim
December 16, 2020
The Middle East poses a problem for the Democrats. Theirs was traditionally the pro-Israel party and still commands the support of a substantial majority of Jewish voters. But left-liberal orthodoxy demands that all right-thinking people take the side of the Palestinians against the Israeli government and hold Jerusalem to a double standard: If any other nation takes an aggressive stance against terrorist insurrectionists or other internal threats, the results may be tragic but are kept in perspective. If Israel does so, it has committed a moral outrage and broken international law. READ MORE
BALTIMORE JEWISH LIFE Rabbis Denounce Rev. Raphael Warnock’s Antisemitic Rhetoric, Dismiss “Whitewash” From Partisan Group The Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV), representing over 1500 traditional rabbis in matters of public policy, today released a letter sent to the Jewish Democratic Council of America (JDCA) and the Warnock for Senate campaign on Monday, denouncing anti-Semitic rhetoric from Georgia senatorial candidate Reverend Raphael Warnock and challenging JDCA’s partisan “whitewash” of his language. The JCDA characterized serious concerns about Warnock’s comments as “baseless claims and attacks.”