Progressive favorite Rep. Katie Porter met with AIPAC to prepare for a recent junket to Israel and came away from the trip “extremely impressed” by Benjamin Netanyahu.

Last month 15 Democratic House members traveled to Israel as part of a delegation sponsored by the liberal Zionist group J Street. According to a new Jewish Insider interview with Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA), the congresswoman pushed the delegation to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and was “extremely impressed with his willingness to..grapple with us [on] some of the toughest issues that Israel’s facing.”

In January, Porter launched a Senate campaign to succeed Senator Dianne Feinstein in 2024. Fellow California Representatives Adam Schiff and Barbara Lee are also running for the seat.

Porter told JI’s Matthew Kassel that Netanyahu was “extremely generous both with his time and with his thoughts” and that the J Street group was “really able to have an interactive dialogue with him. Advertisement

“I was extremely impressed with his willingness to kind of grapple with us at some of the toughest issues that Israel’s facing, everything from judicial reform — an issue that we’re having questions and discussions about right now within the Democratic Party here in the United States — to issues about the West Bank and about settlements,” said the congresswoman.

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  • PZK [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    That moment that all the libs on :reddit-logo: were cheering on embodies liberalism in such a poetic way.

    She's sitting there reading a book about not giving a fuck while the liberals in the Republican party capitulate and cede more power to the fascists. Any lib who is terrified of fascism should have been frightened about what was going on in that room... and she doesnt give a fuck.

    The Democrats could have helped the moderates inside the Republican party but instead thought they were scoring "great optics" by letting them slug it out. Ultimately ending with the moderates offering compromise with the extremists. They were going to end up controlling the house, the question was in what form. The faux party solidarity and decorum the Democrats were going for means nothing and was noticed by nobody.

    They just sat there, and this woman was mask off about it. They would never reach across the aisle to stop fascists, but they will do it at any other time to help them.

    :liberalism: in its purest form.