Halie Soifer, Jewish Dems in New York Jewish Week

NY Jewish Week
By Shira Hanau
February 6, 2019

“I actually reject what I consider to be the false narrative that there’s a problem with regard to support of Israel within the Democratic Party,” said Halie Soifer, executive director of the Jewish Democratic Council of America. “I think the election of Rashida Tlaib [D-Mich.] and Ilhan Omar is just that, the election of two women in this case who happen to have views on Israel that are not shared by the mainstream of either the Jewish electorate or the Democratic electorate and the party.”