Senator Fetterman: The Very Best Dressed Mind in Congress

He wears shorts. He goes sockless. He wears hoodies. But he makes more sense on one matter than any of his colleagues wearing Ermenegildo Zegna suits and Canali ties. He was recently interviewed at the Jerusalem Post Conference held in Washington. More on his exhilarating defense of Israel can be found here: “Fetterman: I was the only Democrat ready to bomb Iran’s nuclear sites,” Jerusalem Post, December 10, 2025:

US Senator John Fetterman vowed to “go all in with Israel” and warned that social media has become “a sewer” poisoning a generation against the Jewish state, speaking on Wednesday at The Jerusalem Post Conference in Washington, DC.

In a one-on-one conversation with Amichai Stein, The Jerusalem Post’s diplomatic correspondent, the Pennsylvania Democrat, who was recently honored by the World Jewish Congress for his steadfast support of Israel, traced how his commitment to Israel and the Jewish people crystallized after two watershed moments.

“After the Tree of Life massacre, I went straight to Squirrel Hill,” Fetterman recalled, referring to the 2018 antisemitic shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue that killed 11 worshipers. “I cannot imagine someone barging into a house of worship and shooting people. It was shocking.”

He said the October 7 massacre by Hamas in southern Israel did not change his view but intensified it.

“Ten-seven clarified moral clarity for me,” he said, using the shorthand many in the US now use for October 7. “Not only has it not diminished, it has intensified.”

Fetterman spoke openly about the political cost of his stance inside a Democratic Party that has been increasingly divided over Israel since the war in Gaza began.

“If the s*** hits the fan, I said I would go all in with Israel,” he told the audience. “And I meant it.”

He expressed disbelief at colleagues who chose to snub Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he addressed a joint session of Congress earlier this year.

“When the prime minister spoke to Congress and people turned their backs on him, that was astonishing,” Fetterman said. “That was outlandish.”

Turning to the war in Gaza, Fetterman argued that intense pressure for a ceasefire earlier in the war would have left key threats intact.

“If they had pushed Israel into a ceasefire, [Yahya] Sinwar would be alive, Hamas would remain strong, and Hezbollah would still be firing thousands of rockets,” he said….

“It is not a lost battle,” Fetterman repeated. “We can still win it, but we have to recognize that the battlefield now includes TikTok and every other platform that is flooding people with lies about Israel.”

What more could one wish for from a defender of the Jewish state? Let Fetterman be sockless, and in shorts, and wearing a hoodie if he wishes. His views make him the very best dressed mind in Congress.

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