Washington Examiner senior columnist Guy Benson argued that the “litmus test” in the Democratic Party has become whether candidates will object to the existence of a Jewish state.
Benson explained on Fox Business’s Varney & Co. on Thursday that simply criticizing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu isn’t enough to appease the core base of the Democratic Party, describing this move as “wishful thinking” for candidates.
“If they support the Jewish state they can say, ‘Oh, it’s Netanyahu,’ that’s their pivot [and] that’s their deflection to try to avoid the underlying issue, which is, it is becoming a litmus test with their base, not to object to Netanyahu, not to object to some kind of policy or military action that the Israelis have undertaken … the impurity test is to object to the Jewish state itself,” Benson said.
Part of this test, as Benson explained, is to “embrace” a firm pro-Palestinian stance.
“To basically embrace a hardcore so-called pro-Palestine view of the world,” Benson said, “in an obsessive, fixated sort of way.”
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