"Shameful and dystopian": Squad's Rep. Summer Lee Blasts Police Attacks on Student Protesters

In 'Mehdi Unfiltered', Pennsylvania Congresswoman and ‘Squad’ member Summer Lee explains how she beat out pro-Israel donors in a tough Democratic primary battle last week.

In a major victory for progressives last week, Rep. Summer Lee came out victorious against her primary challenger, even after pro-Israel billionaire and GOP megadonor Jeff Yass spent almost a million dollars trying to unseat Lee.

Lee is no stranger to being targeted by pro-Israel donors, and explained to Mehdi what the attack ads by groups like AIPAC are actually like.

“Not only do they not run pro-Israel ads. They don't run ads that are truthful about our progressive records, right? They always have to distort,” Lee said.

Lee also told Mehdi Hasan what she saw when she visited the University of Pittsburgh last week to speak with students protesting the war in Gaza, and how she reacted to images of police violently arresting students at Columbia University on Tuesday night.

“I think we're looking at a generation of students who grew up in an era where they feared, in their core, that a gunman would come onto their campus, onto their schools and unleash hell on them. Some of them have lived through it. And then for them to be met with that sort of militarized reaction and response… really is an indicator that we have lost the plot in the United States,” Lee said.

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