Brad Lander

But that is built on a broader set of hypocrisies and failures in foreign policy.

that democrats as well as republicans own because all these years of saying rules-based international order while the u.s did what the president wanted in the iraq war and in unconditional support for israel's destruction of gaza anyone could see that's not consistent with international law with human rights compliance and once the rules don't apply to the people in power

It's hard to ask folks to have confidence that government democracy is meaningful, that it'll deliver for them.

And that's when, if somebody comes along and points at someone to blame, and yes, of course, that's always going to be Jews or trans kids or Muslims or immigrants.

And that's how we got here.

And we've got to get out by standing up to Trump and protecting our neighbors.

But we also have to take on corporate power, speak the truth about foreign policy and human rights, give people some reasons to trust their elected officials.

And the same with AIPAC.

I mean, I don't like what AIPAC is doing to our democracy.

I've never taken a penny from them.

I never will.

You know, creating these shadow PACs that then don't even spend on their issue.

It's really corrosive to democracy.

But I don't like saying that out loud if you, I mean, the same people, if Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes are criticizing AIPAC.

They're building on a well of antisemitism and it's really hard to pull apart legitimate criticism of Israel for genocide and war crimes and a well of antisemitism that can be exploited politically and that just grows and metastasizes.

It is why speaking honestly is important.

I believe it's why it's important for American Jews to do that.

It's one reason I'm running.

I mean, Dan Goldman is for unconditional US military aid to Israel, regardless of settler violence in the West Bank, regardless of violations of the ceasefire, regardless of this

Reckless war takes many contributions from, you know, is endorsed by AIPAC, takes many contributions.