Michigan AG Dana Nessel called on Jewish Dems to “place the needs of the world” even “over our own survival” in speech Sunday.
“We have a moral imperative to place the needs of the world above even our own self-interest and, yes, even our own survival”
https://www.jta.org/2026/08/31/politics/all-of-us-have-to-bring-down-violence-wherever-we-see-it-el-sayed-says-following-address-to-jewish-democratsJosh Kraushaar
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She also got the story of the Jewish holiday of Purim backwards, in making this plea.
JTA: “Yet the attorney general stressed that the election was bigger than Israel, and, invoking Purim’s Queen Esther, urged Jewish voters to put their own feelings of personal safety aside.”
