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September 4, 2026

Brad Lander’s Anti-Israel Protestations Didn’t Protect Him from the Mob

“The only good Zionist is a dead Zionist!”

Brad Lander, the Jewish former New York City comptroller who won a Democratic nomination for Congress, recently had the opportunity to learn a similar lesson to that learned by Jewish attendees at the 2001 Durban Conference. Once a member of the Democratic Socialists of America who described himself as a “liberal Zionist,” Lander edged out the more moderate Dan Goldman in the primary with promises of greater hostility toward Israel. Isaac Schorr writes:

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