DERRY, New Hampshire — Elizabeth Warren has vowed to boycott the top pro-Israel confabulation, the American Israel Public Policy Conference, in March.
“Yeah,” the Massachusetts senator and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate said Thursday at a rally in Derry, New Hampshire.
Most of this cycle’s Democratic White House hopefuls skipped the 2019 iteration of the event after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Israeli government forged ties with President Trump’s administration. Instead, many of them spoke either in person or via video link at a forum hosted by left-leaning advocacy group J Street.
“For America to be a good ally of Israel and the Palestinians, we need to get both parties to the table. We’re not getting that if we just stand with one party,” Warren said on the campaign trail five days before the New Hampshire primary.
The senator, who is on track to finish third in Iowa, needs to perform well in her neighboring state to keep her presidential ambitions alive.
On Thursday, amid telling the crowd fighting for “big, structural change” was an act of patriotism, she also slammed Trump’s Senate impeachment trial as a “fake trial.”
Trump spent Thursday taking a victory lap after the Senate voted mostly along party lines to acquit him of two articles of impeachment. GOP Utah Sen. Mitt Romney was the sole Republican to join Senate Democrats to vote to convict the president.
