BREAKING: Jewish Dems are proud to endorse @ShontelMBrown in the #OH11 primary.

[George II]

BREAKING: Jewish Dems are proud to endorse @ShontelMBrown in the #OH11 primary.

Shontel Brown shares our Jewish and Democratic values on a wide range of issues. We're excited to mobilize our network of Ohio volunteers and grassroots activists to get out the vote. #jointhejourney

There is a very large Jewish community in the Cleveland Area.

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[JohnSJ]

1. No surprise. Turner is a supporter of Linda Sarsour, who shares Louis Farrakhan's views toward Jews

[sheshe2]

2. Brava Shontel.

The endorsements keep coming.

[wellst0nev0ter]

3. Pure gold endorsement

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[George II]

4. You seem to have a problem with the Jewish Democratic Council of America.

[wellst0nev0ter]

5. Just noting their track record, son

[George II]

6. That one tweet isn't a compendium of their endorsements OR their track record, "son".....

Sure beats an endorsement from Linda Sarsour, wouldn't you say?

[JohnSJ]

12. Yup. It also conveniently ignores their endorsements of people like Cory Booker, Adam Schiff,

Jamie Raskin, and a whole list of DEMOCRATS who won their races, and of course they endorsed Joe Biden, as did Jim Clyburn

[George II]

17. I'm sure they have a higher success rate than 9%. What's particularly disturbing is that....

....the candidate who did defeat Eliot Engel has yet to condemn the six acts of vandalism on four Jewish Synagogues in that Congressional District. Or, if he finally did weeks later, he was very quiet about it.

[JohnSJ]

21. A common pattern I think

[LetMyPeopleVote]

28. Do you want to compare the track record of the Just Us Democrats?

[Hassin Bin Sober]

7. .

[George II]

9. Maybe it's me, but I don't understand the anti-Jewish sentiment in some posts here.

[JohnSJ]

13. It isn't just you

[ripcord]

15. It's becoming more common

[The Magistrate]

24. It Has Been Growing On The Left For A While, Sir

The coldest way to phrase it is that anti-zionism proves for some a gateway drug to a degree of anti-semitism.

Distase for Israel on the left began in the mid-sixties, as an anti-colonial line, at about the same time as some early black power types began rejecting Jews in the civil rights movement and (with some reason) castigating the degree to which small businesses in 'ghetto' neighborhoods were owned by Jews.

By now, with some two decades of Likud rule in Israel, there is so much reason on the left to dislike Israel's policies and actions, support has dwindled globally, and on the left here particularly, because Likud hitched its wagon to the christo-fascist right politically.

The tropes of anti-semitism are far more deeply rooted in Western culture than the tropes of Negro inferiority. The latter are relatively recent, but the former can be traced back to republican Rome. People's minds often enough will fall into ruts made ready for them to travel by the culture they were shaped by.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

26. I am not happy about these anti-Jewish posts either

[dsc]

8. This could make some difference in this district

many mainline suburbs in this district have quite significant Jewish populations. Places such as Shaker Heights, Cedar Heights, and Warrensville Heights.

[George II]

11. OH-11 has the most Jewish residents AND Jewish adults of any District in Ohio.

[Chili]

14. Beachwood too

Very glad to see this endorsement!

[dsc]

16. forgot about Beachwood

[Chili]

18. NE Ohio neighbor!

[dsc]

20. I used to live up there

but moved to NC in 2004. I am old enough to remember Congressman Stokes and Congresswoman Oakar.

[Chili]

22. gotcha!

Stokes was iconic, Oakar was great. We've had some real leaders.

[mcar]

10. Nice endorsement.nt

[LetMyPeopleVote]

19. As a MOT I am very happy

[betsuni]

23. K&R

[LetMyPeopleVote]

25. JDCA endorses Shontel Brown in contentious Ohio special election

This makes me smile

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The Jewish Democratic Council of America is endorsing Shontel Brown, a Cuyahoga County councilwoman and party chair, in the crowded and increasingly contentious Democratic primary to represent Ohio’s 11th Congressional District, Jewish Insider has learned.

“JDCA is proud to endorse Shontel Brown in the OH-11 primary because she shares our Jewish and Democratic values on a wide range of issues, including access to affordable, quality health care, ensuring jobs that pay fair wages, supporting public education, taking action to end gun violence, protecting our democracy, and ensuring equity and justice for all,” Halie Soifer, JDCA’s CEO, said in a statement to JI.

Since announcing her bid in December, Brown has emerged as the pro-Israel favorite in the race, which is scheduled for August 3. Early in-person voting begins on July 7.

In recent months, Brown has notched endorsements from Democratic Majority for Israel as well as Pro-Israel America, and earlier this week, four pro-Israel House Democrats — including Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), Ted Deutch (D-FL), David Trone (D-MD) and Brad Schneider (D-IL) — announced their support for the congressional hopeful.

Brown is widely viewed as a leading candidate in the Cleveland-area race to succeed former Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-OH), who vacated the seat in March for a cabinet position as housing and urban development secretary in the Biden administration.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

27. Democratic schism on display in Ohio special

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The battle for the soul of the Democratic Party is now centered on the streets of Cleveland in a special election that’s poised to signal its future ideological direction.

A once sleepy primary between a stalwart Bernie Sanders ally, former state senator Nina Turner, and Cuyahoga County Councilwoman Shontel Brown has suddenly turned into an all-out civil war between the party establishment and the progressive left. Numerous national party figures, from Hillary Clinton to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to the mother of the HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge (whose resignation opened up the seat), have made endorsements in the runup to the August 3 primary that will all but determine the next member of Congress in the Northeast Ohio district....

House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, who endorsed Brown last week, plans to campaign in Cleveland the weekend before the August 3 special election, according to Brown’s campaign manager—a sign of confidence that Brown has the momentum. Clyburn’s strategy is reminiscent of his bet on Biden’s struggling presidential campaign before South Carolina, where a coalition of pragmatic African-Americans and white moderates gave him a commanding victory that propelled him to the nomination.,,,,

Most significantly for the race, the district has a sizable Jewish community around Cleveland, which is mobilized for the low-turnout primary because of Turner’s history of antagonism towards Israel. Democratic Majority for Israel, an organization that backs Democratic pro-Israel candidates, has invested heavily in the race for Shontel Brown, blanketing the local airwaves with ads attacking Turner for her past criticism of both Biden and Hillary Clinton. (One DMFI ad quotes Turner’s comment in the Atlantic in 2020, when she said that choosing between Biden and Trump was like have a bowl of s**t in front of you, and all you’ve got to do is eat half of it instead of the whole thing. It’s still s**t.”)