How Harris would actually approach Israel, according to an insider

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. For his part, former president Donald Trump has called on Israel to “finish the job” and lambasted Jewish Americans — who overwhelmingly vote Democratic — for their support for Harris’s party. Trump even went so far as to call Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff a “crappy Jew.” Inside Washington spoke to Halie Soifer, who worked as Harris’s national security during Harris’s first two years as a senator, this week. “She has given voice to the empathy that we all feel toward innocent Palestinians suffering in Gaza, and her calls for the ongoing flow of humanitarian assistance into Gaza are shared by the vast majority of Jewish Americans.” Indeed, during Harris’s speech at the convention, Harris said she and President Joe Biden were working “around the clock” to try and end the war, “because now is the time to get a hostage deal and a ceasefire deal done”. “He has repeatedly denigrated millions of American Jews as recently as last week, and I'm sure he'll do it again this week, because he's speaking to the Republican Jewish Coalition on Thursday and every time he speaks to a group of Jews, including Republicans, he says antisemitic things,” Soifer said.