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El-Sayed’s obsession with Israel is coming to California

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Abdul El-Sayed’s recent victory in Michigan should be a wake-up call for California.

The political movement that helped propel El-Sayed to victory is already flourishing here, and its loudest obsession is a tiny country thousands of miles away.

At a time when Californians are struggling with housing costs, homelessness, crime, failing schools and the basic affordability of raising a family, why are local politicians spending precious time turning city halls into debating chambers on the Middle East conflict?

Richmond’s City Council passed a resolution accusing Israel of “ethnic cleansing,” calling for an end to US military aid to Israel, and weighing in on Israeli military policy.

Santa Monica’s City Council debated and passed its own Gaza ceasefire resolution.

Whatever your views on the war, ask yourself a simple question: Is this why we elect city council members?

Can Richmond negotiate a Middle East peace agreement? Can Santa Monica determine American foreign policy?

But they can fix potholes. They can address homelessness. They can improve public safety, support small businesses and make their cities work better for the people who actually live there.

That should be their focus.

Yet anti-Israel activism has increasingly become a defining political cause on the far left.

We saw the intensity of that movement on college campuses, including UCLA. We see it in the Democratic Socialists of America, which supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and ending US military assistance to Israel. And now we see politicians associated with this movement gaining power from LA to New York to Michigan.

LA voters should pay particular attention.

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