Hakeem Jeffries is signaling how he’ll handle the issue most deeply dividing his party.
In short: very carefully.
U.S. support for Israel has emerged as a major internal Democratic fault line and portends to be a stinging headache for Jeffries next year as Israel skeptic after skeptic wins the party’s primaries.
Jeffries’ unenviable position came into starker contrast last week. The minority leader barely dodged a Democratic reckoning as his party debated whether to support a Republican-led measure to cut off aid to Israel.
As Democrats wrestled with how to approach that politically thorny vote, Jeffries offered little guidance, preferring to…
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