Jon Ossoff is doing even more to damage his already fractured relationships with Georgia’s Jewish community, according to Jewish Insider. This week, Ossoff voted with anti-Israel extremist Bernie Sanders for the third time to block certain arms sales to Israel.
“Jon Ossoff is teaming up with extremist Democrats like Bernie Sanders to block President Trump’s ability to work with America’s ally, Israel, to defeat Hamas terrorists,” said NRSC Regional Press Secretary Nick Puglia. “Georgia deserves a Senator who will stand to keep Americans safe, not someone who sides with the pro-Hamas Democrat base.”
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Ossoff’s relationship with Georgia’s sizable Jewish community could be a critical deciding factor in his reelection campaign next November[.]
The Georgia senator alienated many in the Jewish community by voting in December for two of three resolutions to block aid shipments to Israel.
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Many leaders said at the time that he was making progress but had more work to do to fully regain their trust. Those efforts hit a stumbling block in June after Ossoff — whose second child had just been born — took nearly a week to comment on the war between Israel and Iran.
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Norman Radow, a major Democratic donor in Georgia who spoke to Ossoff… told Jewish Insider, “I’m disappointed with him and he knows it. And I think he knows that a vast majority of the Jewish community feels the same way.”
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“I’m disappointed in his behavior, but I can’t say it’s a surprise. We’ve seen this before,” Cheryl Dorchinsky, the founder of the grassroots Atlanta Israel Coalition, said. “It’s insane to me that anyone would think that voting against weapons to Israel during a war is a good idea, regardless of who’s in power.”
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Another Jewish Democratic donor in Georgia said, “The yes vote with Sanders, who only wants to destroy the U.S.-Israel relationship, is concerning [and] emboldens the terrorists to continue to reject the ceasefire that was agreed to by Israel. It’s exactly what Hamas wants.”“[A] lot of folks who had previously been strong supporters of [Ossoff’s] in the Jewish community are not happy about the stands that he has taken… there is a break in trust and that becomes harder to restore.”” [said Rabbi Joshua Heller of Atlanta’s Congregation B’nai Torah].
Heller was more skeptical that Ossoff’s vote-splitting approach would satisfy anyone, saying he thinks the strategy won’t help Ossoff with supporters of Israel who don’t believe in stopping weapons shipments nor with opponents of Israel who believe in cutting off all aid to Israel.