{"id":25326,"date":"2025-08-02T04:15:37","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T04:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cissar.com\/?p=25326"},"modified":"2025-08-02T04:15:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T04:15:39","slug":"democratic-lawmaker-no-longer-on-speaking-terms-with-some-family-over-israel-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cissar.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/02\/democratic-lawmaker-no-longer-on-speaking-terms-with-some-family-over-israel-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic lawmaker ‘no longer on speaking terms’ with some family over Israel support"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Democratic congressman \u2018no longer on speaking terms\u2019 with some family over Israel support<\/a><\/h4>\n

Rep. Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y., told a room full of Jewish students at the Israel on Campus Coalition Summit some of his family won\u2019t speak to him over support for Zionism. (Credit: Israel on Campus Coalition)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Israel-supporting<\/a> Democratic Rep. Ritchie Torres revealed on Tuesday he no longer has a relationship with some of his family due to his support for Israel.<\/p>\n

“I’ve lost friends, all of you have lost friends there,” he told a room full of Jewish students at the Israel on Campus Coalition Summit on Tuesday. “I’m no longer on speaking terms with with certain members of my family.”<\/p>\n

Torres\u2019 deep support for Israel has put him at odds with progressives in his party \u2014 but the New York Democrat\u00a0<\/a>has only recently begun to express frustration with the Jerusalem government.<\/p>\n

“No offense, but there are moments when I feel like the Israeli government has the worst PR operation that I\u2019ve ever seen,” he told a room full of Israel-supporting students at the Israel on Campus Coalition Summit, some of whom applauded the remark.<\/p>\n

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Rep. Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y., told a crowd of Israel-supporting college students he’s no longer on speaking terms with some of his family over his Zionist support. (Israel on Campus Coalition\u00a0)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“If I have like a normal constituent who comes to me, is not anti-Israel, is not anti-Semitic, but expresses this concern about hunger in Gaza, I cannot tell her there’s no issue,” he said. “I cannot deny it. I cannot downplay that.”<\/p>\n

The Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry reports that 60,000 Palestinians have died as a result of Israel\u2019s offensive campaign in Gaza to eradicate Hamas, and 154 have died from lack of food. President Donald Trump<\/a> this week acknowledged there\u2019s “real starvation” in Gaza due to food shortages.<\/p>\n

Torres said that while he doesn\u2019t hold Israel responsible for that starvation, “I feel like we should be doing everything we can to ease the human suffering in Gaza.”<\/p>\n

He claimed that Israel is held to a “double standard” because “no other country has been and has been expected to deliver food to its adversaries.”<\/p>\n

PRO-ISRAEL DEM SAYS THOSE WHO WON’T DECRY HAMAS OVER OCT. 7 ATTACK ‘HAVE NO BUSINESS’ POSING AS HUMANITARIANS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Palestinians carry aid supplies that entered Gaza in trucks through Israel, in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip, on July 29, 2025. (REUTERS\/Ebrahim Hajjaj )<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Aid has been trickling into Gaza through the Israel-partnered Gaza Humanitarian Fund, which, since operations began on May 27, the group says has delivered more than 97 million meals.<\/p>\n

That “definitely contradicts the narrative that there’s a deliberate policy of starvation,” Torres said.<\/p>\n

However, Israeli forces guard distribution sites, and the United Nations \u2014 which opposes GHF \u2014 claims over 1,000 Palestinians have died seeking aid through the group. GHF, in turn, argues the U.N.\u2019s aid distribution has been entirely ineffective: U.N. data shows that only 8% of U.N. aid has reached its destination without being looted in the last 10 weeks, according to a Reuters report.<\/p>\n

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Palestinians carry aid supplies that entered Gaza in trucks through Israel, in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip, on July 29, 2025. (REUTERS\/Ebrahim Hajjaj )<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Israel has said there is no widespread famine in Gaza, asserting photos are misleading or of isolated cases, but has started to pause fighting in large swathes of the strip for 10 hours a day to allow for a surge of aid by land and air.<\/p>\n

A ceasefire and hostage deal has so far evaded Israel and Hamas leadership. White House envoy Steve Witkoff is on his way to Israel for negotiations as of Wednesday, Axios reported.<\/p>\n

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