Fetterman’s Primary Opponent Is a Radical Anti-Zionist Who Believes Jews Must ‘Relinquish Their Privilege in a Partitioned Israel

The Gaza-born DSA member who is challenging Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman in next year’s Democratic primary once advocated for Israel to be split up into four separate states and favors a Nuremberg-style war crimes trial for Israeli officials.Ahmed Moor wrote about “Jewish supremacy” being the “core tenet of Zionism” and supports the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement.“First, I feel fairly fed up with the endless discussion of Jewish-Israeli feelings and sensibilities,” Mr. Moor wrote in June.“I am also indifferent about whether Zionist Israelis have a friend in the world, or whether appeals can be made to the better angels of their unnatural commitment to Jewish supremacy, mass rape, and so forth,” he added.Mr. Moor was born in Rafah, Gaza, in the area he refers to as Palestine.“The language on your milk carton is Hebrew,” he said in a 2009 Electronic Intifada article.As a young boy, his family moved to Sudan, and afterwards Sierra Leone, Haiti and Nepal. His parents moved to Philadelphia when they received a job opportunity with the American Friends Service Committee — a Quaker social justice organization.He still has family in Gaza. The 41-year-old Mr. Moor told a podcast his family applied for a green card for his uncle, which was in progress in October 2023 but denied after the Hamas attack on Israel. Mr. Moor said his cousin’s 19-year-old son was killed by an Israeli sniper in Rafah in 2024.Mr. Moor graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2006 with a political science degree. In 2012, he received a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship to attain a master’s in public policy from Harvard University. Paul Soros was the elder brother of George Soros, who has spent billions on progressive causes and candidates throughout the world. Mr. Moor received his master’s degree from Harvard in 2013.He has never run for elected office before but served on the Philadelphia Democratic City Committee.Even before the war between Hamas and Israel, Mr. Moor was focused on Palestinian identity and struggle.“The grievances, constantly, they don’t go away,” he said of the Palestinian territories during the podcast interview with the Foundation for Middle East Peace, where he was a 2025 fellow.In a 2020 op-ed, he said a democratic, “power-sharing constitutional” arrangement should be instituted in a partitioned Israel.“The country may be organised into four federal units: Gaza, the West Bank, the Galilee and Coast, and the Naqab or Negev,” Mr. Moor wrote in the Guardian in July 2020. “Two states will be majority-Palestinian and two states will be majority-Jewish, a likely necessary concession to the country’s legacy of ethnic conflict.”After the terrorist attacks by Hamas on October 7, 2023, he wrote to equate the behavior of Hamas and the Israeli Defense Forces.“Both Hamas and Israel – and the Haganah, which preceded Israel’s army – have used terrorism to advance policy goals,” Mr. Moor wrote in a separate Guardian op-ed in July 2024. “But as the Irish Republican Army, which pursued its political program in part through bombings in London, and the African National Congress in South Africa have shown, the only path to eliminating terrorism is through a political agreement.”He said that “Jewish Israelis must relinquish the extraordinary privilege they’ve secured for themselves in Palestine-Israel.”“Yet ending the immediate violence won’t dismantle apartheid or Jewish supremacy, the core tenets of all Zionist political parties supported by the majority of Jewish-Israelis,” Mr. Moor wrote in 2025.Mr. Moor has called for an international war crimes trial of Israeli leaders modeled after the forums where Nazi leaders were tried in Nuremberg, Germany by the victorious Allies in 1945 and 1946.At the International Military Tribunal from 1945 to 1946 trying the top leaders of the Third Reich, 19 of 22 Nazis were convicted and 12 were sentenced to death. Rudolf Hess was sentenced to life in prison. Albert Speer was sentenced to 20 years behind bars.On social media this past September, Mr. Moor concurred with an op-ed in the Nation that called for “comprehensive sanctions on Israel modeled on 1986 South Africa legislation.”“I’d add that we also need a Nuremberg,” Mr. Moor said.Mr. Moor called police responses to pro-Palestinian campus protests in 2023 “reactionary and zealous” and criticized the Democratic National Committee’s stance on the protests following the 2024 presidential election.“There was no sense that the DNC was relevant,” he wrote in the independent pro-Palestinian new site +972.In a 2024 op-ed in the Guardian, Mr. Moor said President Joe Biden had “actively abetted a genocide, who openly regarded Palestinian lives with contempt, and who cast an entire generation of college students and young people as antisemites and miscreants.”“Biden has enabled a ghastly genocide, the starvation of children in Palestine, and his legacy is defined by it,” Mr. Moor wrote.In 2012, Mr. Moor co-edited “After Zionism: One State for Israel and Palestine,” a collection of essays from writers that envisioned a one-state solution for the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people.“The very title will be off-putting to almost all supporters of Israel,” Publisher’s Weekly wrote, “and the editors make clear in their introduction that the issue isn’t whether a two-state solution is practical at this stage, but that such an approach is inherently unjust.”The authors in the book included BDS co-founder Omar Barghouti and neorealist foreign policy theorist John Mearsheimer. The Electronic Intifada said of the book “there is never any coherent overview of what the different proposals are, or evaluations of how they compare.”In addition to his writing, Mr. Moor works in financial services and “international development work.” He co-founded Liwwa, Inc., a financial services company that specialized in Peer-to-peer lending, Islamic financing and small business loans.The company’s LinkedIn profile lists its address as in Amman, Jordan.“Our story traces its origins back to a tumultuous time in our region – The Arab Spring,” Liwwa’s website reads. “The world had seen firsthand the harm that lack of opportunity and capital inaccessibility can inflict on people.”Mr. Moor incorporated Liwwa in the United Kingdom in 2020. One of his company directors was David Asker, a Swedish military interrogator, soldier and former diplomat who served in Afghanistan and attended the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.The company was dissolved in the UK in August 2021.Property records show Mr. Moor’s home is owned by Gaza Property Management LLC, which was incorporated by Atia Moor in Pennsylvania in 2018.Mr. Moor’s campaign against Mr. Fetterman – and the eventual Republican nominee if his primary bid is successful – will focus on ending the war in Iran, fighting Washington DC corruption and “delivering for working families,” his website said. The campaign is planning a launch event in Philadelphia next week.Mr. Moore said he loves living in Philadelphia due to the “cosmopolitan urban life that comes from living around black people and white people” yet still spoke lovingly of Gaza.“The food is great, the people are warm, you treat elderly people with respect,” he said.

Fetterman’s Primary Opponent Is a Radical Anti-Zionist Who Believes Jews Must ‘Relinquish Their Privilege in a Partitioned Israel

Fetterman’s Primary Opponent Is a Radical Anti-Zionist Who Believes Jews Must ‘Relinquish Their Privilege in a Partitioned Israel

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