To be clear, this is not DSAs line, these are Democrat acting opportunistically within the electoralist faction of DSA.
Edit: She has made a statement saying she mispoke
I fumbled this line, plane and simple. To be clear, my foreign policy priority is ending Israel’s occupation, apartheid, and genocide in Palestine. I also reject the notion that anti-Zionism is antisemitism, and it’s important that we distinguish the two in order to combat actual antisemitism. I have always been opposed to any form of ethno-supremacy, and I refuse to vote for any of our tax dollars to go to any government that discriminates on that basis. I was being asked about rising antisemitism in this interview, and I was trying to say that my concern is while voters across the political spectrum wake up to Israel’s atrocities and our government’s complicity in it, the Democratic Party is failing to meet this moment. And when the Party refuses to lead morally on this issue, they are letting antisemites on the right co-opt the movement for Palestinian liberation while giving fodder to AIPAC talking points. But Sana is right, a movement for liberation must center the Palestinians being oppressed, occupied, and systematically exterminated — and the islamophobia and anti-Palestinian racism used to justify genocide is too often ignored. source
Thank you for her statement on it. I still get red flags from it though and will continue to push politicians to the left.
My position is that all people that still proclaim they are Zionist or “willing to speak with Zionist” should be viewed the same as we have, historically at least, viewed Nazis. They should be not be a part of any political conversation. And anyone that attempts to connect broadly the “concerns” of Jewish Americans with Israel should be condemned and removed from political office. And this goes for Jewish Americans that use their Jewish identity as a shield to support Israel. Though it is often most used by Christian Zionist.
I am willing to “talk with” people that do not have this hard of a stance. I am not willing to talk with people that proclaim they are Zionist or “liberal zionist” or whatever. There is no more discussion to be had with them that does not just attempt to keep their ideas of Jewish supremacy alive and normalized.
We are not at that point yet. I realize that. But, until we are, I will continue to unapologetically criticize anyone that yeilds any ground to these Zionist framing or normalizations. This means I’ll criticize “good people” sometimes and that is entirely fine.
To be clear, this is not DSAs line, these are Democrat acting opportunistically within the electoralist faction of DSA.
Edit: She has made a statement saying she mispoke
Thank you for her statement on it. I still get red flags from it though and will continue to push politicians to the left.
My position is that all people that still proclaim they are Zionist or “willing to speak with Zionist” should be viewed the same as we have, historically at least, viewed Nazis. They should be not be a part of any political conversation. And anyone that attempts to connect broadly the “concerns” of Jewish Americans with Israel should be condemned and removed from political office. And this goes for Jewish Americans that use their Jewish identity as a shield to support Israel. Though it is often most used by Christian Zionist.
I am willing to “talk with” people that do not have this hard of a stance. I am not willing to talk with people that proclaim they are Zionist or “liberal zionist” or whatever. There is no more discussion to be had with them that does not just attempt to keep their ideas of Jewish supremacy alive and normalized.
We are not at that point yet. I realize that. But, until we are, I will continue to unapologetically criticize anyone that yeilds any ground to these Zionist framing or normalizations. This means I’ll criticize “good people” sometimes and that is entirely fine.