Pro-Israel Democrat Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY) Draws Primary Challenge

Are progressive party politics transforming the Democratic Party?

Congressman Eliot Engel, then Ranking Member on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, meets with Federica Mogherini on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. November 6, 2017. (photo: European External Action Service)

Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), one of Israel’s staunchest supporters in Congress, and a lifelong Jewish Democrat from New York, is facing serious trouble this election season. And not from Republicans.