{"id":236899,"date":"2026-07-02T03:54:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T03:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=236899"},"modified":"2026-07-02T03:54:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T03:54:41","slug":"meet-aber-kawas-dsa-backed-palestinian-american-who-won-new-york-state-senate-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=236899","title":{"rendered":"Meet Aber Kawas, DSA-Backed Palestinian American Who Won New York State Senate Primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Democratic Socialists of America\u2019s slate dominated the New York primaries last week, with Aber Kawas winning the Democratic nomination for a New York state Senate seat in the New York City borough of Queens with a 20-point lead against progressive State Assemblymember Steven Raga. Born and raised in New York to Palestinian parents&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2026\/6\/30\/aber_kawas\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Democratic Socialists of America\u2019s slate dominated the New York primaries last week, with Aber<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":236900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/236899-meet-aber-kawas-dsa-backed-palestinian-american-who-won-new-york-state-senate-primary.jpg",1920,1080,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/236899-meet-aber-kawas-dsa-backed-palestinian-american-who-won-new-york-state-senate-primary-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/236899-meet-aber-kawas-dsa-backed-palestinian-american-who-won-new-york-state-senate-primary-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/236899-meet-aber-kawas-dsa-backed-palestinian-american-who-won-new-york-state-senate-primary-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/236899-meet-aber-kawas-dsa-backed-palestinian-american-who-won-new-york-state-senate-primary-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/236899-meet-aber-kawas-dsa-backed-palestinian-american-who-won-new-york-state-senate-primary-1536x864.jpg",1536,864,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/236899-meet-aber-kawas-dsa-backed-palestinian-american-who-won-new-york-state-senate-primary.jpg",1920,1080,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/236899-meet-aber-kawas-dsa-backed-palestinian-american-who-won-new-york-state-senate-primary-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/236899-meet-aber-kawas-dsa-backed-palestinian-american-who-won-new-york-state-senate-primary-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/236899-meet-aber-kawas-dsa-backed-palestinian-american-who-won-new-york-state-senate-primary-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=236899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/236900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=236899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=236899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=236899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}