Pro-Israel challenger gains support from Silicon Valley Jews in bid to unseat Ro Khanna

Khanna’s hostile turn towards Israel divides Silicon Valley Jews

Rep. Ro Khanna’s (D-CA) emergence as a leading Democratic party critic of Israel — while affiliating with and embracing individuals and groups that have been accused of antisemitism and support for terrorism — is creating divisions within the local Jewish community in his Palo Alto-based district. While Khanna maintains unified support from Jewish elected officials in the district, other Jewish community leaders say they feel abandoned, ignored …

Pro-Israel challenger gains support from Silicon Valley Jews in bid to unseat Ro Khanna

This story originally appeared in J. Jewish News of Northern California. Outside the Palo Alto JCC in April, as hundreds of people entered the campus to celebrate Yom Haatzmaut, Israel’s 78th birthday, a group of Jewish and Israeli-American activists from the advocacy group Bay Area Jewish Coalition-Action stood at the entrance, holding yard signs for political candidates on the ballot this June. One name that stood out among those signs: Ethan …