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James P. Moran Jr.

James P. Moran Jr. is a U.S. Democratic Congressman representing Virginia's 8th Congressional District since 1991. He became an object of controversy after he told an antiwar audience in Reston, Virginia on March 3, 2003, that "If it were not for the strong support of the Jewish community for this war with Iraq, we would not be doing this. The leaders of the Jewish community are influential enough that they could change the direction of where this is going, and I think they should."

For some, Moran became a symbol of anti-Semitism in the United States. Writing in the December 22, 2003 edition of The Nation, Letty Cottin Pogrebin charged that "Representative James Moran of Virginia stirred up another incendiary canard-Jewish influence-by attributing America's war with Iraq to 'the strong support of the Jewish community.'" However, no prominent Democrat stepped forward to run against Moran in the Democratic primary, leading many to believe that the veteran politician had survived the uproar.

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