The Zionist hoodlums who staff America’s pro-Israel organization - on the both left and right - have one thing in common: hatred of dissent. They are obsessed with the most trivial deviation from the pro-Israeli dogma.

Zionists in America are not content with having a powerful lobby that can get 90% of the U.S. Congress to do nearly whatever it wants, and they are not content having several pro-Israel columnists in major American papers while not a single op-ed writer can be described as pro-Palestinian. Overwhelmingly, the American people sympathize with Israel over the Palestinians. In recent polls, Americans support the Israeli side +70% to only 8% for the Palestinians. America is the only country in the world where public sympathy is with Israel and not the Palestinians. But Zionists want it all, and that means that even though they are winning 10-1, they still want to destroy that 1.

This is how AIPAC works. In a sponsored resolution, even if it gets 400 members (out of 435) of Congress to vote for it, AIPAC will still devote resources to defeating the reelection chances of the 5 who vote against it. It is not about simply winning, but about silencing all criticism of Israel and intimidating any prospective critics. Hoodlum tactics.

And now they are doing just that to freshman Congresswoman Donna Edwards:

The most significant Jewish political story of the day is the news that an African American politician might be challenging a first-term African American incumbent in a majority African American congressional district near Washington.

That’s because the race has the potential to become a proxy war between J Street and supporters of more traditional pro-Israel groups.

On Thursday, The Washington Post reported that two-term Prince George’s County State’s Attorney Glenn Ivey is passing up a run for county executive and is forming an exploratory committee to run against first-term incumbent Rep. Donna Edwards (D-Md.) in September’s Democratic primary. . . .

This comes about six months after some pro-Israel leaders in the Washington area, upset with the J Street-endorsed Edwards for her stance on Israel and the Middle East, floated the idea in a Politico article of backing a challenger with views more to their liking. . . .

As a first-term incumbent, Edwards doesn’t have much of a voting record on Israel issues and in interviews hasn’t said anything all that controversial about the Jewish state.

But she raised the ire of some Jewish leaders with just one vote — her decision to vote “present” on a resolution last January during the Gaza war which backed Israel’s right to defend itself and reaffirmed U.S. support for the Jewish state, while also encouraging a “sustainable” cease-fire in Gaza. (Edwards said she voted present because she didn’t feel it was appropriate for the U.S. Congress to weigh in on the issue the morning after the United States had voted to abstain on a U.N. resolution calling for a cease-fire, but that she “did not want to send a signal to anyone that it was appropriate to send rockets into Israel.”)

Some in the Jewish community have also felt she has not communicated well or reached out sufficiently to them. And last month, she added a second vote that supporters of AIPAC and other mainstream Jewish groups didn’t like when she weighed in against a resolution condemning the controversial Goldstone Report on the Israeli war in Gaza.

Since when did serving in Congress mean one has to become a cheerleader for Israeli crimes? They people think that her district is Tel Aviv. Fortunately, the Israel lobby may not win this one. Edward’s district is middle-class African American who are very supportive of her. And she just defeated a 8-term incumbent Democrat, a stunning victory. So she is a formidable candidate and does have a strong base of support in her district and nationally as she has become a progressive hero. And, finally, if anything her consistence wants her to be more pro-Palestinian.

But the Zionists hoodlums will try.