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November 16, 2020

One Georgia Senatorial Candidate Has a Record of Slandering Israel

Raphael Warnock.

After a closely contested election. Georgia will hold two run-off elections to select its senators, one of which pits the incumbent Kelly Loeffler against Raphael Warnock, a Baptist pastor. In a 2018 sermon, Warnock accused Israel of “shoot[ing] down unarmed Palestinian sisters and brothers like birds of prey, . . . like they don’t matter at all,” adding that “Black lives matter. Palestinian lives matter.” David Harsanyi doesn’t accept the defense that these words amount to mere “criticism” of the Jewish state:

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