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Al-Araby
Al-Araby
When Congressman Jamaal Bowman visited Israel last month, his meeting with Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and his tour with the liberal – but pro-Israel – J Street raised eyebrows among Palestinian activists who felt he was not showing enough solidarity. Advocates of the Boycott, Sanctions, and Divestment (BDS) movement put pressure on the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), with its Madison chapter among the first to call for Bowman’s expulsion. This led some, most vocally on the right, to point to a rift in the left-wing of the Democratic party. “This is being blown out of proportion by …