but you have seen a small block of these members becoming very outspoken, people like congresswoman ilhan omar, a muslim somali refugee, someone who has supported the boycott israel moments. same with rashida tlaib, supporting the boycott israel movement. that s no what pramila jayapal supports, but she has been sharply critical of the israeli government in and of itself, and these comments were significant for a lot of those members, given how prominent she is within the party, which is very rare to see the leadership of the democratic party come out yesterday and issue a statement rebuking those comments. hakeem jeffries and his two deputies coming out and saying that israel is not a racist state, and saying that the united states supports israel. what the democratic leaders don t want is to see the republicans again to try to drive a wedge between them and their support for israel, given the prominence of israel and the american political movement and the fact that republicans are e