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tags:
  - Organization
  - Political Party
  - USA
category: "U.S. Government"
summary: "The Democratic Party is one of the two major American political parties, whose presidential campaigns from 1960 onward were substantially funded by Abraham Feinberg - the most important Jewish fundraiser for the party - in exchange for continued Democratic support for Israel."
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The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the [[United States]]. [[Abraham Feinberg]] was perhaps the most important Jewish fundraiser for the Democratic Party by the presidential campaign of 1960, with the dollars he collected meant to ensure continued Democratic Party support for [[Israel]].[^1]

### Footnotes

[^1]: Hersh, Seymour M. *The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy*. Random House, 1991. Chapter 8.