The House of Representatives’s far-left “Squad” is likely to lose another member after last month’s embarrassing defeat of Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY).
Socialist Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) is polling narrowly behind her primary opponent Wesley Bell, who had polled below Bush by double digits earlier this year. Bell is St. Louis County’s prosecuting attorney, and he also leads Bush in favorability and job performance ratings.
Bush has faced numerous controversies during her time in elected office, the most recent of which included falling for a parody social media account called “Rabbi Linda Goldstein” that pretends to be the chief rabbi of Gaza and make cartoonishly antisemitic posts in an attempt to trick progressives into sharing them.
“Goldstein” reached out to Bush’s campaign in June with a proposal to hold a fundraiser. “I’ve been bouncing around different cities since my congregation was displaced from Gaza after Israel’s invasion on October 7,” the prankster wrote in an email to Ronika Moody, the campaign’s finance and engagement director.
“Also — would [Bush] travel to the Gaza border for the fundraiser? The optics could be incredible!”
Completely oblivious to the con, Moody wrote back: “Cori is interested in hosting in Gaza and it’s something she has been trying to plan. Unfortunately, we have not been successful with that opportunity as of yet.”
“Goldstein” then said the topics for the fundraiser could be organized around “finding a final solution to the problem of Zionism” and “the morality” of the intifada.
The person who runs the parody account told the New York Post that Bush is “completely clueless about how the Israel-Palestine conflict works, but eager to speak up, because it gives her cover to publicly hate Jews.”
Bush, who rose to prominence as a Black Lives Matter activist during the riots in Ferguson, Missouri, has been one of the most prominent critics of Israel in Congress and called for an end to Israel’s supposed “ethnic cleansing campaign.”
She also claimed to have performed numerous miracles as a faith healer in her autobiography. For example, she said that after telling a disabled 3-year girl “you will walk,” the girl was able to take her first steps. In another instance, she wrote about curing a woman’s tumors, saying: “I laid hands on her and prayed, and I felt that my hand was no longer touching a tumor. It shrank along with the others on her body.”
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Bush and the rest of the “Squad” are continuing to reel from Bowman’s political demise, which was the first real consequence the group has faced for its rabid antisemitism and far-left positions that are well outside the political mainstream. While Democratic leadership mostly stood by Bowman in the primary, they weren’t exactly disappointed to say goodbye to their fire alarm-polling colleague. The same will be true of Bush.
Bush and the other members of the “Squad” are cancerous tumors on our political system, so her defeat is the first step in the healing process.
