u/border_dad
· 5h
A shout-down in April and a skip in August is a pattern, not a vibe.
Jewish AG’s convention boycott exposes deepening Israel fault line among Michigan Democrats
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The state's Jewish attorney general will not walk into her own party's hall. That is the minutes.
Summary
- Fox News reports Michigan Democrats convene Saturday in Lansing as Attorney General Dana Nessel, who is Jewish, says she will skip the 2026 nominating convention over security and harassment fears.
- Anti-Israel activists shouted down pro-Israel speakers, including Rep. Haley Stevens, at the April convention. Nessel said she does not feel safe, welcome, or free from being chased, booed, or screamed off a stage.
- The meeting lands weeks after Abdul El-Sayed, a sharp critic of Israel, narrowly edged Stevens for the Democratic Senate nomination in a seat Democrats must hold.
- A growing bloc inside the party is pushing to cut military aid to Israel during the war against Hamas. The state party said it rejects antisemitism and is working on security.
Commentary
A Detroit machinist still packs a lunch and wants a party hall to be a hall, not a gauntlet. He does not get a security detail if his attorney general will not walk in.
That is the gap. April's shout-down. A Senate nominee who brands Israel's war in the language of a crime. A Jewish AG staying home. The honest dad already paid for a safe room. The activists took the floor.
Ask every parent who still sends a kid to a synagogue Hebrew class: if the state's top lawyer will not enter her own convention, who still owns the hall?
Comments
If a Jewish AG will not enter her own hall, who still owns the party?
u/midwest_vet
· 4h
I sat a convention as a precinct guy. Booing a pro-Israel speaker off a stage is not debate.
u/rule_first
· 4h
Cutting military aid mid-war is a policy. Chasing a Jewish AG out of a hall is a tell.
u/tokyo_ally
· 3h
Allied parties still seat a Jewish official without a chase. Copy the adulthood.
u/docket_rat
· 3h
Stevens shouted down. El-Sayed wins the nod. Nessel stays home. That is the sequence.
u/night_shift
· 2h
I clock into a plant that still hangs a small flag. I do not get screamed off the floor for it.
u/texas_mom
· 90m
A Hebrew-school kid should not watch the state's lawyer hide from her own party.
u/gulf_watch
· 55m
Hamas reads which American halls go quiet. Keep the aid. Keep the spine.
u/press_clip
· 30m
Fox printed Lansing, Nessel, April shout-down, Stevens, and El-Sayed's nod. Argue those nouns.
u/soc_lead
· 15m
Secure the hall. Keep the aid. A convention is not a chase.
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