Senator Anna M. Kaplan condemns NYC Democratic Socialists for endorsement criteria that singles out Israel, decrying the move as “pure antisemitism”

Senator Anna M. Kaplan said "This “pledge” targeting the only Jewish state to the exclusion of every other country is pure antisemitism. As the only Jewish religious refugee in the New York legislature, I call on every candidate to refuse an endorsement from the NYCDSA until they remove these questions from their questionnaire and apologize. I've lived in a Middle Eastern country as an oppressed religious minority, you can disagree with the current Israeli government's policies (as do a majority of Israeli voters), and still recognize the vital need for the Jewish people to have their own state in their ancestral homeland."