The more things change the more they stay the same

  • Calfpupa [she/her]@lemmy.ml
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    15 days ago

    OP can you add her statement saying she misspoke?

    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

    • GodlessCommie@lemmy.worldOPM
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      14 days ago

      She didn’t misspeak, this is how 2 faced politicians straddle both sides of the line. She’s trying to do damage control. Everyone sees the interview and a handful see the apology

      • Calfpupa [she/her]@lemmy.ml
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        14 days ago

        After rereviewing the interview and statement, I agree that even if this was an honest mistake, her retraction was not enough. She did not speak her implied two-state solution, which is unacceptable.

      • Bloomcole@lemmy.world
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        14 days ago

        Exactly, she’s a politician.
        She took a pause thinking about it and weighing her words before that sentence.
        It didn’t just come out like that.
        IDK that woman but her whole vibe feels fake AF.