About this episode

John Heilemann interviews Senator Chris Van Hollen about the Democratic Party's internal conflict regarding U.S. support for Israel.

John welcomes Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen to discuss the increasingly deep fault line among Democrats over U.S. policy towards Israel. Van Hollen, who published a recent New York Times op-ed about why his party must abandon its “reflexive and unconditional” support for Israel, argues that Joe Biden’s handling of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was a stain on his foreign policy record; that Democratic presidential contenders who voted to fund Bibi Netanyahu’s war on Gaza will pay a steep political price; and that Democratic foreign policy hands who “refuse to acknowledge their complicity” in what he sees as a genocidal campaign should have no role in future Democratic administrations.

People in this episode

Host: John Heilemann

Guest: Chris Van Hollen

Topics covered

• U.S. policy towards Israel
• Democratic Party divisions
• foreign policy
• Israeli-Palestinian conflict
• political consequences

Keywords

• Chris Van Hollen
• Israel
• Democrats
• foreign policy
• Joe Biden
• Bibi Netanyahu
• political consequences

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Organizations: New York Times

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