Trump acknowledges declining Israeli influence in US
Wednesday, 17 December 2025، 12:12 AM
Trump said: "If you go back, 10, 12, 15 years ago, the most, the strongest lobby in Washington was the Jewish lobby, it was Israel. That's no longer true. You have to be very careful." He added that "there's been a big change" in Congress, and singled out Democratic Party members Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar as examples. He went on to claim that Omar, who has come under attack by Trump in recent weeks, "hates Jewish people" (Read more at New Arab).