Facing down a far-left candidate in a swing district near Minnesota’s Twin Cities, Republican state Sen. Eric Pratt is hoping he’s “boring enough to win.”

In a bid to replace Rep. Angie Craig (D-MN), a moderate who flipped the district in 2018, Democrats nominated former state Sen. Matt Little, who defeated two primary rivals as the farthest-left candidate in the race, while staking out anti-Israel policies, including calling for a full arms embargo on the Jewish state.

Rep. Hillary Scholten (D-MI) has emerged in recent weeks as one of the Democratic Party’s most outspoken voices against antisemitic influencer Hasan Piker — including standing as one of the few Michigan Democratic holdouts in endorsing Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed in light of his relationship with Piker.

Her stalwart outspokenness against antisemitism and resistance to her party’s home-state Senate nominee is increasingly rare in today’s politics.  But Jewish Michiganders who have worked with her say she’s long been close with and supportive of the community, and that she’s been deeply and personally disturbed by rising antisemitism and other rhetoric from Piker and El-Sayed. 

Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany party has embedded antisemitism into its core ideology, using coded rhetoric, conspiracy myths and historical revisionism to mobilize voters and undermine German democracy, according to a new report released by the American Jewish Committee. 

The AJC report details how the party rarely uses explicit anti-Jewish rhetoric in official statements, instead relying on coded verbiage — such as attacks on so-called “globalist elites” — to mask its hostility while maintaining plausible deniability.

Examining the campaign finance reports of neo-Nazi influencer Dan Bilzerian prompts the question of who exactly would want to be associated with the hate-mongering candidate, who was badly defeated last week in his primary bid against Jewish congressman Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL). The next question is who would want to be associated with his associates.

In an age of dog whistles, Bilzerian leads a blaring Wagnerian orchestra of antisemitism. He made his name as an online influencer who dabbled in Holocaust denial and conspiracy theories about a Jewish role in everything from the John F. Kennedy assassination to 9/11. He capped his congressional campaign with an ad praising Adolf Hitler and featuring AI images of his opponent “the fat Jew Randy” sprouting horns.

Six months into the military conflict between the U.S. and Iran, Qatar’s liquefied natural gas exports have plunged 96%, resulting in approximately $24 billion in lost revenue, Reuters reported on Wednesday. 

Doha has been forced to halt much of its LNG production — its primary driver of export earnings — due to attacks on oil infrastructure and inability to physically move it to customers, wiping out the equivalent of roughly five months of Qatari government revenue and establishing the state as one of the chief economic casualties of the war.

Speaking at a rally for Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed on Wednesday, Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) brushed aside criticisms of El-Sayed’s relationship with antisemitic streamer Hasan Piker and said she wants to stop talking about Piker altogether.

The streamer has faced a torrent of criticism, including from top Democratic leaders, in recent days after making comments suggesting that Jews supportive of Israel have invited antisemitic violence on themselves. El-Sayed repeatedly campaigned with Piker and some Democratic lawmakers say he hasn’t done enough to distance himself from or condemn Piker’s comments.

Nearly all Senate Democrats wrote to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday urging him to take action against settler violence in the West Bank and investigate the deaths of nine American citizens killed in the area in recent years.

The letter, led by Sens. Adam Schiff (D-CA), Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Cory Booker (D-NJ), who have generally been supportive of Israel, was signed by every Senate Democrat except for Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and John Fetterman (D-PA) — who stand at opposite ends of the caucus on Israel issues.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, a Jewish Democrat who has been outspoken against the rise of antisemitism in her party, raised concerns that Abdul El-Sayed, the state’s Democratic nominee for Senate, had not publicly withdrawn his equivocal comments responding to a violent attack in March on a synagogue in suburban Detroit.

El-Sayed faced backlash for comments that critics interpreted as excusing the attack perpetrated by a Lebanese American man whose relatives — including his brother, a Hezbollah commander — were killed in Israeli strikes in Lebanon, controversially arguing that “hurt people hurt people.”