[IsraelTimes] Jayapal says she does not believe ’Israel as a nation is racist’ but that its ’government has engaged in racist policies,’ after her party’s leaders pushed back on earlier remark
A powerful House Democrat walked back her description of Israel as a "racist state" on Sunday, after she faced backlash from her colleagues and party leadership.
Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Washington, chair of the 100-member Congressional Progressive Caucus, made the comments on Saturday at Netroots Nation, a progressive conference in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown |