(Ha'aretz) Amir Tibon - 41 Democratic members of Congress are visiting Israel this week including more than 30 new members elected in 2018. A Democratic staffer on the trip noted, "If you look at the people who joined this trip, you'll see many people from swing districts for whom it's important to be seen as pro-Israel....They don't want to be associated with the AOC [Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] camp on this issue." Mark Mellman, a pollster and political consultant who this year helped launch Democratic Majority for Israel, said that "the overwhelming majority of Democrats support Israel, and that hasn't changed. A few people in the party do not, and they get 100 times more press coverage than the majority of the party, unfortunately."
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