Philadelphia – A Hillary Clinton campaign pin written in Hebrew was spotted on the lapel of former president of the United States Bill Clinton during the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia Wednesday evening.
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The pin, according to online publication Tablet Magazine, was presumably a gift from either one of two representatives from the National Jewish Democratic Council who were in attendance at the DNC.
“I was at a Clinton/Gore campaign alumni event this afternoon at the Jewish Historical Museum in Philadelphia and gave my old boss the pin,” Steve Rabinowitz, a former Clinton White House staffer and NJDC official, told Tablet’s Yair Rosenberg.
“He said he’d wear it but I didn’t know whether or not to believe him and certainly didn’t think he’d do it tonight,” said Rabinowitz, adding “separately and without either of us knowing it, Marc Stanley [the chairman of the National Jewish Democratic Council] did the same thing tonight when he saw Clinton in the convention hall and Clinton told him he was planning to wear it.”
“Don’t know who gets the credit but we’re both happy. It’s NJDC’s pin.”
Tension between traditional supporters of the Democratic party and the faction’s more liberal wing have periodically flared up over the issue of Israel for the past few months.
Before the start of the DNC Monday morning, members of the Democratic platform committee tussled over inserting language referring to Israel’s “occupation” and “settlement activity” on Palestinian land.
The committee, made up of members selected by both the Clinton campaign and her chief primary rival, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, argued contentiously over the issue with Sanders supporters urging the platform to adopt the language.
Clinton supporters on the committee eventually succeeded in nixing the controversial references, arguing such statement would further inflame tensions and deter from future US efforts in peace talks.
Platforms are meant to be inspirational, non-binding policy declarations reflecting the will of their party at a given moment in time. But they are also practical documents – messages to voters in an election year.
Cool.
To call the land’ palestinian’ land is a misnomer at the least , as one may think that there was a country with that name in the past. It was territory that was under the ottoman rule for 500 years before 1918.Part of that territory was offered to the arab residents to create at state in 1948 ,however they refused and started a war to destroy the jews living there.There was never a country with a govt. called palestine.
I really wish both sides would stop making Jews and Israel prominent issues.
Yep..
The only people who believe in Clinton’s ‘friendship’ with Israel are those who were in attendance at DNC. Those few who are liberal, far-left, self-hating american Jews who wouldn’t mind if there was no Israel for the world to ‘deal’ with altogether.. (most of them wouldn’t mind if there was no god to deal with either..)
For the rest of us the Clinton’s are on the Arab side of the spectrum…
P.S. Let the angry replies begin….
If that isn’t a reason to vote for her then I don’t know what is.
A totall meaningless and patronizing gesture by Bill. If he and she were any friends they would have at a minimum an Israeli flag pin. I don’t like, trust or will vote for his wife. I see her as a wickedly evil extention of Obama’s anti Israel agendas and a total fraud.
Patronizing, chanifah, call it what you will. Billary will do anything and everything to get elected.