{"id":324669,"date":"2026-11-10T06:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T06:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/324669\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T06:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T06:26:07","slug":"john-fetterman-to-be-challenged-by-palestinian-american-for-pennsylvania-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/324669\/","title":{"rendered":"John Fetterman to be challenged by Palestinian-American for Pennsylvania Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ahmed Moor, a Palestinian-American writer who has worked with anti-Zionists, is the first Democrat to challenge Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman<\/a> in the 2028 primary.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fetterman, who has faced sharp criticism from within the Democratic Party for his staunch support for Israel\u2019s military campaign in Gaza, has yet to announce whether he plans to run in 2028<\/a>. A defeat or retirement would remove one of the Democratic caucus\u2019s most pro-Israel voices.<\/p>\n

Moor, 42, enters the playing field with radically different positions on Israel and on foreign policy in general from those Fetterman has promoted. Claiming that the United States \u201cfunds wars based on corruption and lies and has turned its back on its own people,\u201d Moor pledged on his campaign website to ensure \u201cthis never happens again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moor, born in Gaza, moved to Philadelphia as a child, where he earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He completed a master\u2019s degree in public policy from Harvard. He switched from finance to journalism, reporting in Beirut and Egypt for The Guardian and other outlets, and co-editing the book After Zionism: One State for Israel and Palestine. He also spent many years in Jordan, where he launched a peer-to-peer lending organization, before moving back to Philadelphia in 2021.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cA few years ago my birthplace was turned to rubble in a genocide<\/a> funded by our tax dollars,\u201d Moor stated, saying that this has occurred \u201cwith the support of politicians on both sides of the aisle who can\u2019t find money for transit or removing asbestos from our schools.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moor, who has served on the Philadelphia Democratic City Committee, has never held public office. He says he is determined to address corruption, affordability, foreign policy and constitutional authority, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer, which first reported his candidacy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Moor told the Inquirer that he was \u201cnot really running against Fetterman\u201d but instead \u201crunning for the rule of law.\u201d He acknowledged that he would face an \u201cuphill battle\u201d against Fetterman, who took office in January 2023.<\/p>\n

Fetterman has irked some fellow Democrats<\/a> by siding with Republicans on numerous issues, especially on Israel. He has also drawn praise from the pro-Israel community and Israel\u2019s leadership. With Democrats securing a Senate majority of at least 54 seats, including two independents who caucus with the party, Democratic leadership will be less dependent on Fetterman\u2019s vote when the new Congress convenes in January.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahmed Moor, a Palestinian-American writer who has worked with anti-Zionists, is the first Democrat to challenge Pennsylvania Sen.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[16062,84977,6304,902,4283,20746,28,30,29,66],"class_list":["post-324669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-antisemitism","tag-antizionism","tag-diaspora","tag-elections","tag-john-fetterman","tag-palestinian","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}