(JNS) Mike Wagenheim - Democratic Majority for Israel, an advocacy group that supports pro-Israel policies in the Democratic Party, held a virtual discussion on Wednesday with several key pro-Israel U.S. House members. Rep. Shontel Brown (D-Ohio) said, "The State of Israel is as progressive as it gets. Some of what the progressive members of the party fight for is actually occurring in Israel. We need to make sure those who have a tainted, tarnished, misinformed view understand the reality." Rep. Ted Deutch (D-Fla.), Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East, discussed Amnesty International's report labeling Israel as an apartheid state. "The one democratic country in the Middle East - with the most diverse government in history, where Jews and Arabs sit together in the Knesset, where there is respect for women and for the LGBTQ community, where so clearly on display are the shared values of the U.S. - to paint that with the brush of apartheid is outrageous....If you want to work towards a Palestinian state, you don't need to be anti-Israel. It harms peace."
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