Oct. 7 pushed lifelong Dem to run as a Republican for Washington state office

(JNS) - Sarah Mittelman, a Jewish nurse practitioner in Vancouver, Wash., was so distressed by what she saw in the Democratic Party after Oct. 7 that she is now running for the Washington state House as a Republican.

After the Hamas-led attacks, Mittelman, who told JNS that she was a Democrat "for a long time, my whole life" and who was chair of the Clark County Democratic Women, found that "things started kind of switching around."

"Someone made pretty rough statements, called me a 'genocider' for just being part of the Jewish community," she told JNS.

Mittelman, who has built her life with h...