{"id":107207,"date":"2026-05-10T20:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T20:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/107207\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T20:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T20:20:11","slug":"jack-schlossberg-opposes-military-support-for-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/107207\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Schlossberg opposes military support for Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manhattan congressional candidate Jack Schlossberg<\/a> says he supports the effort to block arms sales to Israel and claims that the US has already lost the war in Iran.<\/p>\n

The grandson of President John F. Kennedy said during a recent candidates forum at the Stephen Wise Synagogue<\/a> on the Upper West Side that he supports the resolutions advanced by far-left Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders to deny Israel $440 million in bombs and military equipment.<\/p>\n

Forty Democratic senators voted for the ban on equipment, but seven Dems sided with Republicans to defeat the measure \u2014 including New York Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand.<\/p>\n

Democratic congressional candidate Jack Schlossberg speaking at a forum at Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in Manhattan on May 6, 2026. Lev Radin\/ZUMA \/ SplashNews.com<\/p>\n

A second measure, which sought to block the sale of 1,000-pound bombs to Israel, was defeated by a greater margin, 36 votes in favor and 63 against.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would have voted with 85% of Democrats to block those funds to Israel,\u201d said Schlossberg, who is running in the Democratic primary for the 12th House District to replace retiring Rep. Jerrold Nadler.<\/a><\/p>\n

Schlossberg said his position was tied to his opposition to the US-Israel war against Iran<\/a>, which he claims does not increase security for Americans or Israelis.<\/p>\n

\u201cOpposing that war means opposing all funding for that war,\u201d Schlossberg, 33, told the synagogue\u2019s senior rabbi, Ammi Hirsch, who moderated the forum.<\/p>\n

\u201cI cannot understand how we continue funding this war which we basically just lost in the Middle East,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Schlossberg told Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch that he would\u2019ve voted for a bill to block US arms sales to Israel. Lev Radin\/ZUMA \/ SplashNews.com<\/p>\n

Assemblyman Micah Lasher said he would\u2019ve voted against the bill proposed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). Lev Radin\/ZUMA \/ SplashNews.com<\/p>\n

Schlossberg said he still supports Iron Dome funding to help defend Israel from attacks <\/a>and supports its status as a Jewish nation.<\/p>\n

Candidate Nina Schwalbe said she also supported a US ban on selling weaponry to Israel.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe destruction in Gaza is unacceptable. I\u2019m ashamed America has supported it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Smoke rising from an airstrike in Tehran on March 8, 2026 during Operation Epic Fury. Schlossberg claimed at the forum that the US has already lost the war in Iran. AP<\/p>\n

But other candidates vying for Nadler\u2019s seat told the audience that they backed the US military aid to Israel and opposed the Sanders-proposed blockade.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t believe it would have actually improved the lives of people on the ground, and it would have contributed to the status of Israel as a pariah state \u2014 and I will not do that in Congress,\u201d said state Assemblyman Micah Lasher<\/a>, a leading candidate backed by Nadler and many West Side Democratic leaders.<\/p>\n

Candidate and Trump basher George Conway<\/a> also said he opposed the resolutions.<\/p>\n

Another candidate, state Assemblyman Alex Bores, did not attend the debate.<\/p>\n

The Middle East is a political hot potato. House District 12 encompassing the east and west sides of Manhattan has a big Jewish population that supports Israel but also many progressives who support the Palestinian cause or turned against the Jewish state over its military actions in Gaza and Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manhattan congressional candidate Jack Schlossberg says he supports the effort to block arms sales to Israel and claims…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1275,34,37,37061,37062,25533,11496,8981,35468,212,81,26219,933],"class_list":{"0":"post-107207","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-democrats","9":"tag-iran","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-jack-schlossberg","12":"tag-jerrold-nadler","13":"tag-john-f-kennedy","14":"tag-manhattan","15":"tag-metro","16":"tag-midterm-elections-2026","17":"tag-operation-epic-fury","18":"tag-politics","19":"tag-us-house-of-representatives","20":"tag-us-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116552140390733569","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}