Cori Bush loses Democratic primary after huge campaign by pro-Israel groups

Cori Bush speaks outside the US Capitol in Washington, DC after police cleared a pro-Palestinian tent encampment at George Washington University and arrested demonstrators [File: Jose Luis Magana/AP]

United States Representative Cori Bush, a fierce critic of Israel’s war in Gaza, has lost her Democratic congressional primary, in a race that saw a massive influx of money from pro-Israel groups to defeat a member of Congress’s left-wing “Squad”.

Bush, a Congresswoman from Missouri, lost Tuesday’s primary to St Louis prosecutor Wesley Bell, who won about 51.2 percent of the vote to her 45.6 percent.