Posted on 06/02/2025 2:45:31 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Sen. John Fetterman acknowledged Monday that “parts” of the Democratic Party’s base have turned their backs on Israel, an issue he described as one of “moral clarity” for him.
Fetterman (D-Pa.) argued during a bipartisan “The Senate Project” event with Sen. Dave McCormick (R-Pa.) that those who lament the “tragedy in Gaza” should blame Hamas and its benefactor, Iran.
“The Jewish community must feel constantly under assault,” said Fetterman, 55, during the event, which was streamed on Fox Nation and moderated by “Fox News Sunday” host Shannon Bream.
“I visited Penn, and I said hello with 300 [Jewish] students, and they were all just, it’s like they’re exhausted, and were constantly living under this kind of constant kinds of criticism, and having that there in their face.
“That’s not free speech, building tent cities on a campus and terrorizing and intimidating Jewish students, that’s not free speech,” he added. “And now we really lost, we’ve lost the argument in parts of my party, and for me, that moral clarity, it’s really firmly on Israel.”
Fetterman has been a staunch public supporter of Israel since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack that killed an estimated 1,200 people in the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust.
The senator’s outspokenness has prompted lefty agitators to target him at political events and his home.
“Of course, we can all agree [there’s a] tragedy in Gaza. Nobody wants that. But who does want that — and that’s Hamas,” Fetterman added. “I think we should blame Iran and Hamas.
“I refuse to allow [to] try to turn Israel into a pariah state, and now it’s right in the middle of that,” noting his agreement with McCormick.
Fetterman expanded on his calls for the Trump administration to partner with Israel to obliterate Iran’s nuclear program.
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Fetterman’s brain has obviously recovered some.
I don’t understand the hatred of Israel and the Jewish people/religion....
I don’t understand the hatred of Israel and the Jewish people/religion....
I dunno man....to me Fetterman is a lot like Kanye West......just about the time you think he’s stable and going in the right direction he does something bizarre as hell.
You can’t really ever trust that kind of unpredictability.
It’s everywhere. Even on FR.
It's Satan, plain and simple. Jew hatred is Satanic.
I don’t either. I never have fully understood it, except to call Hate for Jews some form of jealousy for economic status, education status and knowing how to make money work for you, all good or benign qualities in our American Culture, seems to me. Jealousy, plus declaring oneself ‘inadequate’ to compete on equal terms.
Another possibility is most people will repeat and mimic what their peer group is doing, whether that person agrees with that peer group or not. Most people are followers, thinking there is safety in numbers.
“””I don’t understand the hatred of Israel and the Jewish people/religion....”””
I don’t understand why Jews vote so heavily for democrats.
Putting religious bigotry aside Thomas Sowell explains it very well in “Discrimination & Disparities”.
Jews are successful “middleman” minority. “Middlemen” are always hated. Success is always resented.
That the colleges and universities allow this to continue shows how much they hate Jews and Americans and support terrorists...
It’s their traditional concern for society running on cultural autopilot not rational thought.
He gets it.
I don’t either. Baffling to me.
I don’t either. Baffling to me.
Jews have always been the scapegoat..but what I’ll NEVER understand is how the majority of American Jews vote Democrat, my guess is its due to social issues like abortion..the majority of Jews favor abortion, so they overlook the fact that their own party hates their guts
Thanks to all for your comments.....
Thanks to all for your comments.....
I’m concerned he is erratic emotionally. A History of inpatient psychiatric treatment. His staff has expressed fear. Will he go postal on his coworkers?
the DNC was taken over by communists and nazis and islamonazis.... back at least to around 2006 and there were signs of it earlier too
it needs to be cleaned up, it is very dangerous to have one of our two major political parties under such evil influence and control
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