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WASHINGTON, DC – JUNE 17: U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris arrives to give remarks on conflict-related sexual violence at an event in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on June 17, 2024 in Washington, DC. Harris attended the event with activists and administration officials to speak before the screening of the documentary film “Screams Before Silence,” which details Hamas’ sexual violence perpetrated during the October 7th attack in Israel. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Vice President Kamala Harris on June 17, 2024 in Washington, DC before the screening of a documentary detailing the sexual violence perpetrated during the October 7th attack by Hamas. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images.
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July 26, 2024

Podcast: Noah Rothman on Kamala Harris’s Views of Israel and the Middle East

By Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic

What does the newly minted Democratic candidate for president think about the Jewish state?

Podcast: Kamala Harris

Suddenly, Vice-President Kamala Harris is the Democratic party’s candidate for president. She’s been in the public eye for much less time than Joe Biden or Donald Trump, and much less is known about her views on many subjects—including on the U.S.-Israel relationship or America’s posture in the Middle East.

For instance, as Israel’s war in Gaza ramped up earlier this year, Harris became an outspoken critic of it, and a champion of a ceasefire arrangement between Israel and Hamas on the grounds of humanitarian concern for Palestinian civilians. But it’s possible that these attitudes were a product of her role in the Biden administration, that she was assigned the role of bad cop to the president’s good cop.

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