‘We are just getting started’: Midterm blowout normalizes anti-Zionism in Democratic politics

Times of Israel4 November 2026, 23:15 UTCIsrael

Incoming Congress members will keep up the pressure on Israel and its supporters and further anti-Israel politics, despite the party's moderate majority

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