But progressives don't criticize people "invested" in the Pal cause as unduly obsessive, or suggest that they're doing something wrong if they have high levels of interest or concern about that issue.

Progressives are a minor faction of the party out of power. Even during the Biden (recipient of over $4M from the Israeli lobby, as a Senator) administration, there was conflict between Progressives, and the pro-Israel faction of the party.

Pro-Palestinian Campus Protests Highlight Divisions Among Democrats

“We're divided,” Rep. Jamaal Bowman, a New York progressive, tells TIME of the Democrats. “We have many members of the party who are pro-Israel without equivocation, and others who take a more balanced and nuanced approach.”

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Thomas Massie is a conservative Republican, hardly a progressive, yet he took a more skeptical view of the Israeli government's actions. The Israeli lobby spent some $30M in support of his primary opponent, to get a critic of Israel out of Congress. The Israeli lobby spent even more on the Stevens campaign, to try to prevent El-Sayed even making it to the November ballot. If the Israeli lobby had prevailed, we would have no choice in November, as Stevens and Rogers are both in the pay of Israel.

Steve