Kamala Harris told AIPAC she backs Israel because of civil rights struggle in Selma, 1965 – Mondoweiss

Kamala Harris told AIPAC she backs Israel because of civil rights struggle in Selma, 1965 – Mondoweiss: Many people have compared Palestinian conditions to the Jim Crow south, from Jimmy Carter to Condoleezza Rice to Rashida Tlaib. So it's jarring to learn that Sen. Kamala Harris, in private comments to AIPAC last year, said the famous civil rights march on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma in 1965 inspires her to build a bridge with Israel supporters.