( Matt Ortega )

Carly Fiorina lodged harsh attacks on Tom Campbell, branding her fellow Republican senatorial hopeful as “anti-Israel” and raising connections with a Palestinian immigrant that pleaded guilty to working with Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

The charges are based on several articles published by conservative publications, Commentary Magazine and the American Spectator.

Spectator writer Philip Klein summarized:

While campaigning in 2000, U.S. Senate candidate Tom Campbell called for a Palestinian state with a capital in Jerusalem, said that Israel received too much funding from the United States, argued that President Clinton was too pro-Israel, and recalled receiving a condolence phone call from Palestinian terrorist Yasser Arafat after he injured himself during a visit to the region.

Campbell called the attacks “bizarre” and “desperate” in a statement and later addressed them in an interview with a conservative blog. Klein slammed Campbell’s defense of his record on Israel as “lies” and “distort[ions].”

Despite a defense from David Frum, it appears conservatives are not letting go of this attack.

Tags: CA-Sen, Tom Campbell