Pro-BDS candidates, Q-Anon supporter in Georgia win their elections
Congresswoman-elect Cori Bush of Missouri’s 1st Congressional District. Source: Screenshot.
(JNS) — Incumbent Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), and progressive Cori Bush — all of whom support the anti-Israel BDS movement — won their respective congressional races on Nov. 3.
Omar won re-election in Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District, Tlaib won re-election in Michigan’s 13th Congressional District, and Bush won for the first time in Missouri’s 1st Congressional District a few months after pulling an upset against longtime Rep. William Lacy Clay (D-Mo.).
Omar has perpetuated anti-Semitic tropes on Twitter and introduced a resolution in Congress that promotes boycotts of Israel, likening them to boycotts of Nazi Germany.
Tlaib, who has also been accused of peddling an anti-Israel and anti-Semitic agenda, faced off against longtime Detroit City Council President Brenda Jones.
In a now-deleted foreign-policy section of her campaign website, Bush’s stance on Israel read: “In our current geopolitical economy, money talks far louder than speech alone. This is why nonviolent actions like the BDS movement are so important — and why the effort to mischaracterize and demonize the BDS movement by its opponents is so urgent.”
“I stand by the right of Palestinians to live as a free people just as the people of Israel and we as U.S. citizens are allowed to do,” stated the page. “We also stand by their right to call for a boycott on goods and services that the government that is currently oppressing them profits from, in order to draw attention to their plight.”
On the far-right, Marjorie Taylor Greene, a businesswoman who has trafficked in anti-Semitic and other racist and conspiratorial remarks, and has heralded QAnon, won her race in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District.
