Is anyone really surprised by this? He is a creature of the radical left. That’s who he is and who he cares about.
The Jewish Chronicle reports:
Tim Walz’s record on Israel and antisemitism is deeply concerningThe US far left was thrilled when Kamala Harris announced Minnesota governor Tim Walz as her running mate. After all, he’d been their preference, and the Jewish community needs to understand why.Walz was a fairly moderate Democrat while representing his right-leaning Congressional district for 12 years. For example, Walz called Israel “our truest and closest ally in the region” as part of his speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) back in 2010.As Walz’s party moved leftward on Israel, though, so did he. Like most Democrats, Walz voted for President Barack Obama’s Iran nuclear deal in 2015. Meanwhile, AIPAC and other American Jewish organisations opposed it over concerns about regional instability.When Walz won Minnesota’s governorship in 2018, his leftward trajectory continued, both in his actions and his choice of red-green allies. In January 2019, he publicly applauded Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, a notorious member of “The Squad”. Walz told an audience that “on a tough day,” thinking about Omar’s being in Congress “just brightens you up”.In 2019, Walz addressed a conference of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), where he rubbed shoulders with a scholar who launched “Students for Justice in Palestine”, the group behind many of the pro-Hamas and antisemitic rallies across college campuses in the wake of the October 7 attacks.On at least five occasions as governor Walz has also hosted an imam who has shared official Hamas press releases on Facebook, along with blog posts on hate-filled websites.Walz’s administration additionally granted over $100,000 to the Muslim American Society Minnesota, this imam’s group, whose national umbrella organisation responded to October 7 by expressing “solidarity with Palestinians against Israeli attacks”.In touch with the anti-Israel segment of the Democratic base, Walz urged a Middle East ceasefire in March. And when 18 per cent of Minnesota Democrats cast protest votes against President Biden over Israel policy, Walz reacted respectfully: “Take them seriously. Their message is clear, that they think this is an intolerable situation and we can do more, and I think the president is hearing that.”
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