ICYMI: Sue Altman Partnered With Anti-Israel Group Behind Rutgers University Encampment
Sue Altman’s past is coming back to bite her. It was recently reported, during her time as the State Director of the New Jersey Working Families Party, Altman worked closely with one of the groups now responsible for the anti-Israel encampments occurring at Rutgers University.
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Dem Candidate Sue Altman Partnered With Anti-Israel Group Behind Rutgers University Encampment
Meaghan Blonder
5/03/2024
During her time as the New Jersey Working Families Party’s (NJWFP) state director, swing district candidate Sue Altman (D., N.J.) worked closely with one of the groups now organizing the anti-Israel encampment on Rutgers’s campus.
Under Altman’s direction, the NJWFP organized a December 2019 climate rally with Newark Water Coalition, a Newark, New Jersey-based water and social justice advocacy group. The water coalition is now a member of the newly formed Newark Solidarity Coalition, one of the organizations, alongside Rutgers Students for Justice in Palestine, behind the Rutgers University “Gaza Solidarity” encampment.
The Newark Solidarity Coalition was created April 30, one day before the encampment was established at Rutgers’s Newark affiliate campus. The coalition includes Rutgers Students for Justice in Palestine, New Jersey American Muslims for Palestine, the Rutgers Muslim Student Association, and the Newark Water Coalition, the Washington Free Beacon found after reviewing several joint posts on Instagram.
The solidarity coalition wrote in an introductory X post that the group is made up of “students, faculty, and community members” from Newark who hope to “create spaces for community discussions” about “colonial, capitalist, and white supremacist violence.”
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This comes as Altman attempts to unseat freshman congressman Tom Kean Jr. (R., N.J.) in her first bid for a federal seat.
Altman, a Columbia University alumna, has been noticeably silent on the campus chaos and anti-Semitism as more than 100 anti-Israel encampments have been established across the country. Kean recently called out Altman’s silence.
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During her time leading the NJWFP, Altman championed progressive causes that she is no longer mentioning on the campaign trail.
For example, Altman in 2020 wanted immigrants to receive taxpayer-funded COVID relief funds. Now, Altman calls the border a “crisis” and blames Republicans for the problem which has exploded during President Joe Biden’s administration.
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