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Ritchie Torres, now Congressman-elect for New York s 15th Congressional District, speaking to the media in the Bronx borough of New York, November 3, 2020.Credit: Adam Hunger/AP
Dec. 21, 2020
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Dec. 21, 2020
WASHINGTON – U.S. Congressman-elect Ritchie Torres, who has described himself as a “pro-Israel progressive,” said Monday he won’t align himself with the four Democratic representatives known as “the Squad” due to their criticism of Israel.
“I came to observe that there are activists who have a visceral hatred for Israel as though it were the root of all evil,” Torres, one of two openly gay Black candidates elected to Congress last month, told the New York Post. “The act of singling out Israel as BDS has done is the definition of discrimination,” he added, referring to the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israel.