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Republican redistricting tests the strength of Florida’s pro-Israel Democrats

Among these solidly blue districts are those where veteran Democrats, Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Lois Frankel, are competing on Tuesday.

|BySHARON UDASIN
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Florida) with voters on July 4, 2026 in Sunrise, Fla.
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Florida) takes the stage alongside some of the city's commissioners at a Fourth of July celebration on July 4, 2026 in Sunrise, Fla.

Florida primaries put Jewish politicians, Israel critics, and antisemitism in spotlight

No other low-polling candidate this cycle has grabbed as much attention as James Fishback, the former investment banker running for governor in Florida. 

|ByANDREW LAPIN/JTA
An election worker holds an envelope containing ballot stubs at a polling station during the Michigan primary elections, in Detroit, Michigan.

Jewish Democrat Jeremy Moss defeats pro-Palestinian rival in Michigan primary

The Associated Press called the race for Moss after 74% of the vote had been counted, with him taking 49.2% of the vote, far outpacing his next-closest rival, pro-Palestinian attorney Aisha Farooqi.

|ByANDREW LAPIN/JTA
Dr. Dan Diker, President of the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs (JCFA)

Israel must 'open its eyes' as House votes on US-Israel aid, JCFA pres. tells 'Post' - interview

"It's clear that the Democratic Party has moved consequentially to the left, and that they are much more heavily influenced by people on the progressive flank," Diker told the Post.

|ByMATHILDA HELLER

Photos of far-right GOP Rep. Cawthorn partying in lingerie shared online

The 26-year-old lawmaker has been extremely vocal in the past about his devout and traditional Christian beliefs and has urged the US government to uphold Christian principles. 

APRIL 24, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Rep. Madison Cawthorn arrives for a House Republican conference meeting in the US Capitol Visitors Center in Washington, DC, May 12, 2021.

Ex-wife of Jewish Missouri Senate candidate Eric Greitens accuses him of domestic abuse

GOP Senate candidate Eric Greitens, 47, a former Navy SEAL and Missouri's first Jewish governor, had considered a presidential run prior to a 2018 sex scandal that led to his resignation.

MARCH 22, 2022ByHALEY COHEN
Missouri Governor Eric Greitens appears in a police booking photo in St. Louis

Idaho GOP tried to install antisemite in Democratic leadership

Idaho's Republican Party tried to elect a far-right extremist as Democratic Party leader of Kootenai county.

MARCH 15, 2022ByRON KAMPEAS/JTA
A campaign photo of David Reilly, who ran for a school board in western Idaho last year.

Senate GOP Twitter account stops following virulently antisemitic account after reporter’s query

The most recent tweet from Nov. 1 2016 reads,"Obnoxious Jews Cause Decline in Bud Light Sales."

FEBRUARY 3, 2022ByRON KAMPEAS/JTA
TWITTER’S LOGO is seen on the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange last week.

GOP Sen. Linsey Graham is reliably unreliable - opinion

Graham defines being a Republican today as being unswervingly loyal to Donald Trump – not the party and certainly not the principles on which our democracy rests.

FEBRUARY 2, 2022ByDOUGLAS BLOOMFIELD
SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM, then-chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, speaks during the confirmation hearing for Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett in 2020.

QAnon forces shut-down of butterfly center amid sex trafficking claims

A Republican congressional candidate, MAGA supporters and QAnon conspiracists blamed a butterfly center for trafficking sex workers across the border with Mexico.

JANUARY 28, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A US border patrol agent looks over the Rio Grande river at the border between United States and Mexico, in Roma, Texas, US, May 11, 2017

Bob Dole: A Republican who would never make it in today's GOP - opinion

Dole actively advocated for food stamps, child nutrition, persons with disabilities, veterans and international relief, all anathema in today’s GOP.

DECEMBER 8, 2021ByDOUGLAS BLOOMFIELD
THEN-US PRESIDENTIAL nominee Bob Dole addresses the B’nai B’rith International Convention in Washington in September 1996, pledging a stronger and closer relationship with the Netanyahu government.

Book burning in America: The theme of the GOP cultural war - opinion

Book banning and burning are as old as time, but they’re getting a new life thanks to former US president Donald Trump’s MAGA movement.

DECEMBER 1, 2021ByDOUGLAS BLOOMFIELD
VIRGINIA GOVERNOR-ELECT Glenn Youngkin addresses an election night event last month.

Protesters posed as neo-Nazis to target the GOP nominee in Virginia’s governor race

The protest Friday against Glenn Youngkin, who is running for governor against former governor Terry McAuliffe, was organized by the Lincoln Project, a group of anti-Trump Republicans.

NOVEMBER 1, 2021BySHIRA HANAU/JTA
White supremacists stand behind their shields at a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, US, August 12, 2017

Is Donald Trump sabotaging the Republican Party? - opinion

The twice-impeached former president calls his GOP critics RINOs – Republican in Name Only – but he himself may be the genuine article.

OCTOBER 27, 2021ByDOUGLAS BLOOMFIELD
FORMER US PRESIDENT Donald Trump attends his first post-presidency campaign rally, in Wellington, Ohio, in June.