{"id":172631,"date":"2026-06-22T20:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T20:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/172631\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T20:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T20:19:10","slug":"why-israel-is-at-the-center-of-a-heated-congressional-primary-race-in-new-york-city-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/172631\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Israel is at the center of a heated congressional primary race in New York City | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/AP26151735258326-1000x667.jpg\" alt=\"A woman holds an Israeli flag while walking down Fifth Avenue during the Israel Day Parade, Sunday, May 31, 2026, in New York. (Emil T. Lippe\/AP)\"\/>A woman holds an Israeli flag while walking down Fifth Avenue during the Israel Day Parade, Sunday, May 31, 2026, in New York. (Emil T. Lippe\/AP)  (Emil T. Lippe\/AP)<\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s wars in the Middle East have become a wedge issue in several congressional campaigns, including three in New York, where establishment Democrats are trying to fend off more progressive\u00a0challengers backed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.<\/p>\n<p>The most high-profile of those races is in Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer\u2019s backyard, and it pits Rep. Dan Goldman against former New York City comptroller Brad Lander.<\/p>\n<p>Here &amp; Now\u2018s Lisa Mullins discusses the impact Israel\u2019s wars are having on these key primary races with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/benjamin-oreskes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Benjamin Oreskes<\/a>, reporter at The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>This article was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbur.org\/hereandnow\/2026\/06\/22\/new-york-primaries-israel-war\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WBUR.org.<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1100155.png\" style=\"width:1px;height:1px;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WBUR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman holds an Israeli flag while walking down Fifth Avenue during the Israel Day Parade, Sunday, May&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[37,81,12508],"class_list":["post-172631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-israel","tag-politics","tag-uncategorized"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116795615852744720","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172631","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=172631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}