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发布于 2026年9月30日，美国东部时间下午3:14
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缅因州势均力敌的参议院选举民主党提名候选人特洛伊·杰克逊于周三道歉，此前他称该州犹太居民“不愿将加沙战争称为种族灭绝”是“令人遗憾的”。
“我认为加沙正在发生的事情是种族灭绝，我也明白，鉴于大屠杀——600万犹太人遭受的种族灭绝——这个词对许多犹太家庭有着特殊的分量，”杰克逊在一份声明中说道。“在试图承认这一点时，我言辞失当，对缅因州犹太选民的看法做出了一概而论的概括，这并非我本意。”
杰克逊正在该州一场竞争激烈的参议院选举中挑战共和党参议员苏珊·柯林斯，目前民主党正寻求夺回参议院控制权。他最初有关加沙战争的言论是在缅因州一家本地电视台周二发布的采访中发表的。
“令人遗憾的是，缅因州这里有一些人不愿使用这个词，仅仅因为他们是犹太人，以及大屠杀对他们的意义，”杰克逊在接受《缅因新闻中心》采访时说道。“这符合种族灭绝的定义，那就是种族灭绝。”
杰克逊曾任缅因州参议院议长，今年夏天在进步派政治家格雷厄姆·普特纳被指控强奸后（普特纳否认指控），取代其成为民主党提名候选人。和普特纳一样，杰克逊是以色列政府的直言不讳的批评者，他呼吁切断美国对以色列的军事资助。
在本地电视台的采访中，杰克逊表示美国应该停止向以色列政府提供“空白支票”。
据巴勒斯坦卫生部统计，自战争爆发以来，加沙已有超过7万名巴勒斯坦人丧生。以色列否认了包括联合国委员会在内的各方对其在加沙军事行动的种族灭绝指控。2023年哈马斯袭击以色列后，以色列发动了此次军事行动，当时哈马斯武装人员杀害了1200人，并劫持了250多名人质。
“双方都在发生毫无意义的谋杀、令人发指的谋杀，这必须停止，”杰克逊对该媒体说道。
杰克逊是本届选举周期中几位成为关键参议院选区民主党提名候选人的以色列直言批评者之一，这一情况正在考验该党与犹太社区的关系。
阿卜杜勒·埃尔赛义德在密歇根州参议院竞选中采取了与杰克逊类似的立场，他在面对与美国以色列公共事务委员会相关的数千万美元广告支出后，赢得了一场竞争激烈的初选。
美国以色列公共事务委员会（AIPAC）在缅因州参议院选举中支持柯林斯。
Troy Jackson apologizes for remarks about Jewish Maine residents’ views of Gaza war
2026-09-30T19:14:43.295Z / CNN
By Patrick Svitek
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PUBLISHED Sep 30, 2026, 3:14 PM ET
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Maine Democratic Senate candidate Troy Jackson speaks at a town hall on September 13, in Biddeford, Maine.
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Troy Jackson, the Democratic nominee in Maine’s battleground Senate race, apologized on Wednesday for saying it is “unfortunate” that Jewish residents of the state do not like to label the war in Gaza a genocide.
“I believe what’s happening in Gaza is genocide, and I also understand that word carries particular weight for many Jewish families given the Holocaust—the genocide of six million Jews,” Jackson said in a statement. “In trying to acknowledge that, I misspoke and made a generalization about Jewish Mainers’ views that doesn’t reflect what I meant to say.”
Jackson is challenging Republican Sen. Susan Collins in one of the country’s most competitive Senate contests as Democrats seek to flip the chamber. He made the original comments about the war in Gaza during an interview posted Tuesday by a local TV station in Maine.
“It’s unfortunate that there are people here in Maine that don’t like to use that term only because they’re Jewish and what that means to them with the Holocaust,” Jackson told News Center Maine. “It fits that description, and it is a genocide.”
Jackson, the former president of the Maine state Senate, replaced Graham Platner as the party’s nominee this summer after the progressive politician was accused of rape, which Platner denies. Like Platner, Jackson is a vocal critic of the Israeli government, and he has called for cutting off US military funding to Israel.
In the local TV interview, Jackson said the United States should stop sending “blank checks” to the Israeli government.
Palestinians search the rubble of buildings amid Israeli bombardment in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on October 12, 2025.
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More than 70,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the start of the war, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. Israel has denied genocide accusations, including from a UN commission, over its military actions in Gaza following Hamas’ 2023 attack on Israel, where militants killed 1,200 people and took more than 250 hostages.
“Senseless murders, horrific murders, are happening to both sides and that has to stop,” Jackson told the outlet.
Jackson is among a handful of outspoken Israel critics who have emerged as Democratic nominees in key Senate races this election cycle, testing the party’s relationship with the Jewish community.
Abdul El-Sayed has taken similar positions as Jackson in the Michigan Senate race, where he won a hotly contested primary after facing tens of millions of dollars in spending linked to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
AIPAC supports Collins in the Maine Senate race.
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