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Chris Stein in Washington

‘It’s become a litmus test’: wins for Israel critics shine light on key issue for Democrats

Two men look to side
Brad Lander, who won his Democratic House primary, with New York mayor Zohran Mamdani in Brooklyn this week. Photograph: Eduardo Muñoz/Reuters

Regardless of which party wins control of Congress in November, New York City voters have all but ensured that next year a vocal bloc of new House Democrats will arrive on Capitol Hill, elected, in large part, because they believe Israel has committed a genocide in Gaza.

That is an upshot of the primary elections held Tuesday in New York, where voters ousted two incumbent House Democrats and replaced a third who is retiring with progressives championed by Zohran Mamdani.

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