Dem Apol­o­gizes After Say­ing Maine Jews Reject ‘Geno­cide’ Label ‘Only Because They’re Jew­ish’

Maine Demo­c­ra­t­ic Sen­ate nom­i­nee Troy Jack­son is apol­o­giz­ing for com­ments about Jew­ish Main­ers after say­ing it was “unfor­tu­nate” that some of them refuse to describe the war in Gaza as a “geno­cide” because of the term’s con­nec­tion to the Holo­caust.
It’s the lat­est fum­ble for the Demo­c­rat, who has embraced the “geno­cide” label since enter­ing the race after Gra­ham Plat­ner, whose insur­gent anti-war cam­paign attract­ed sig­nif­i­cant sup­port from the left, dropped out amid a rape alle­ga­tion that he denies.
“I believe what’s hap­pen­ing in Gaza is geno­cide …