Fetterman after the 2022 election: a brave soul who’s not afraid to say what’s right.
I can’t figure it out. And yes. That’s him draped in an Israeli flag. That’s no publicity stunt. Amazing.
Posted on 12/11/2023 9:28:32 PM PST by SeekAndFind
PITTSBURGH — Sen. John Fetterman, D-Penn., has emerged as one of the most reliable supporters of the Jewish community in his hometown, which is located a handful of miles from where the deadliest massacre of Jews happened in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh five years ago. This support is changing how many in the state see him.
David Knoll, a Pittsburgh-based businessman and Democrat who launched a last-minute quixotic challenge to local county councilwoman Bethany Hallam over her social media posts supporting antisemitism, said, “Fetterman has been better than anyone could have hoped, and honestly did not see that coming, but we welcome his support whole-heartedly.”
Knoll, who lives in Squirrel Hill, said what he especially loves is Fetterman’s refusal to cower to either the members of the media or members of their own party who are at odds with his staunch support of Israel.
Fetterman, in an interview with the Washington Examiner, said he is not concerned about falling in or out of some sort of political categorization. “I am not worried about labels or what people want to label me, I am about being clear where I stand, and I always have been,” he said in an emailed interview.
“I am on what I believe is the right side of this issue, I’m not concerned about a label. Israel is our key, closest ally, and we need to support them in this fight,” he said, adding, “if we want peace and we want a two-state solution, then Israel needs to be able to destroy Hamas.”
Fetterman said he fundamentally believes destroying Hamas is the only pathway to a real solution to this conflict, “And it’s not at all at odds with my other beliefs. Hamas has systematically used rape and murder as part of its war, brutalizing Israeli women. It’s horrifying. We cannot pretend that Hamas is a rational entity.”
Knoll said he and other members of the Jewish community here in Pittsburgh are deeply concerned by the recent antisemitic graffiti and vandalism that has happened in Squirrel Hill. Pro-Israel flags have even been burned in front of people’s houses.
Last week, there was an “unfounded” online threat made at an unnamed local synagogue that Pittsburgh police said they were still investigating.
Fetterman said he and his office unequivocally have their back. “We stand with you and support you. You have an ally in me, and please do not hesitate to reach out to my office if there is anything we can help you with,” he said.
One of the first things Fetterman did this past week was calling Michael Solomonov, a Pittsburgh native, chef and restaurateur, whose vegan falafel shop Goldie became the target of hundreds of agitated pro-Palestinian protesters who had gathered in Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia, then took their march down Sansom Street, chanting, “Goldie, Goldie you can’t hide. We charge you with genocide,” as they made their way toward Solomonov’s restaurant.
Organized by the Philadelphia Free Palestine Coalition, a Facebook post instructed supporters to “flood the streets” Sunday night, and they did, shouting antisemitic remarks and placing pro-Palestinian stickers on the doors of businesses along their route.
Fetterman said he talked with Michael to let him know he has his back. “The fact that an angry mob attacked a Jewish business is completely appalling and frankly shocking that this can even happen. Everyone needs to swiftly condemn what happened. I’ve spoken to a lot of different people from the Jewish community across Pennsylvania, and they are actually feeling?unsafe right now. And now, you have a mob?attacking a Jewish restaurant in downtown Philadelphia. It’s unacceptable.”
stop making me like this guy!
It's not important who said it, it's the exact wording that's important.
How is this guy gonna get renominated by his party if he keeps saying such sensible things?
Who is this guy? What did they do with the real one?
Tried to tell you folks buying into the floppy headed nonsense beif. Fed to you by the right wi bc media and brain dead parrots like Hannity that Fetterman was not the rube they told you he was
No I am not a fan of his politics but the nonsense they fed you back lack election cycle was absolute idiotic nonsense. Yes he’s a liberal but he’s not and never been the rube they tried to tell you he was.
Only reason OZ didn’t lost by double digits is because he had a stroke.
Those that thought the POS that was OZ was going to beat this guy were idiots.
Had he not had his stroke he would have won by 8-10 points at a minimum.
The fact McConnel waster more than 100M trying to put lipstick on the POS that was OZ cost countless winnable races
We are in a bizarro world where the Democrat making the most sense on Israel is John Fetterman.
I can’t figure it out. And yes. That’s him draped in an Israeli flag. That’s no publicity stunt. Amazing.
Wow, maybe he is getting the use of his brain again.
Perhaps he will change parties soon and become a Republican.
What the??
Is he taking a page from the new WEF playbook? Say the right things but always vote left?
RE: Wow, maybe he is getting the use of his brain again.
That stroke must have rewired his brain .... FOR BETTER !!
Suppose you could make a list of things that Pennsylvanians would hate in a candidate. Oz would match every last one of them. To mention just a few, Oz was a smarmy rich outsider who didn’t even live in the state until recently.
He didn’t connect with blue-collar Pennsylvanians, and showed no desire to do so.
But, hey. Oz was endorsed by both Hannity and Trump. That’s all that matters, right? Evidently not.
Not trying to be augmentative, but I’ve seen the guy on
video and it was not manipulated to make him look bad. He
was clearly out of it.
I can’t explain what is going on now, but this is not the
John Fetterman I observed a few years back.
John Fetterman seems to be seeing the light stranger things have happened!!! There are MANY Dems that are NOT Marxists, MANY Dems that ARE DEMS because the Dems USED TO BE for the working blue collar guys, I think Fetterman is starting to SEE just how corrupt government is I don’t think he likes it!!
OZ was by far the absolute worst candidate I’d ever seen attempting to win a statewide race as a Republican in PA… yet the right wing buffoons sold him as a great candidate.
Without any question the worst I have seen.
The money spent trying to lipstick that pig could have won countless house races
It’s weird, huh.
He had a stroke.. no one would deny that
But the nonsensical claptrap the national right wing media fed about him was idiotic.
Tried to tell folks he’s no push over, and no I don’t agree with him politically, but the idiotic nonsense that Hannity and the other parrots pushed about him being a weak candidate etc was nonsensical.
The worst candidate I have ever seen for statewide office to run as a Republican in pa in all the years I have lived here was OZ…and those same flappy headed morons tried to sell you he was a winner…. He was not
Had Fetterman not had a stroke he would have won by double dogits.
I don’t agree with his politics but the nonsense they fed you about him being a week rube of a candidate was just more of thr GOP establishment being utterly out of touch.
Oz was an absolute turf and Fetterman was a far stronger candidate then the establishment gop media ever seemed to realize
I love how Fetterman openly mocks and laughs at these protesters to their faces. It absolutely enrages them. Not sure what drugs they put him on, but they’re working!
No, Fetterman's wording ("be able to") is dead-on, because Biden and Blinken are trying to impede Israel's efforts at every turn.
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