Retired Boston Red Sox pitcher and potential Massachusetts Senate candidate Curt Schilling asked on CNN Friday how people of the Jewish faith could morally support the Democratic Party.

“I would like to ask you something as a person who is practicing the Jewish faith and have since you were young,” Schilling began. “I don’t understand, maybe this is the amateur, nonpolitician in me, I don’t understand how people of Jewish faith can back the Democratic Party, which over the last 50 years have been so clearly anti-Israel.”