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Kamala Kameleon: “Zionist Adjacent”

Like Trump, Kamala Harris is not directly tied to Israel, but is related to the Zionist state through family.

Joe Brunoli
19 min readAug 14, 2024
Kamala Harris affixes a kippah to the head of her husband, Douglas Emhoff, as they visit the Western Wall, Jerusalem, November 2017. [Source: Jewish Telegraphic Agency | Photo: Halie Soifer]

There has of late been much attention given to the influence of Israel in American politics, the most recent and piquant example of which has been the brouhaha surrounding the speech that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave to the joint session of Congress.

For example, many commented that the House Speaker addressed the Israeli PM with the title of “your Excellency”, an exaggerated honorific never bestowed on a President or Prime Minister before.

The speech garnered even more attention because of Johnson’s edict threatening anyone “getting out of hand” or disrupting Netanyahu’s speech with arrest.

Given the unruly outbursts that often pepper a modern day Presidential State of the Union Address (“You lie!”), this move by Johnson would seem to indicate an even greater level of deference and enforced decorum than Congress would afford their own President.

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Joe Brunoli
Joe Brunoli

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