“It should not be hard to shut down hatred and antisemitism where we see it. That is a core tenet of solidarity,” Ocasio-Cortez said.
The New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America is facing a political firestorm after the organization promoted a pro-Palestine rally in the wake of Hamas militants’ attacks on Israeli communities.
The group did not organize Sunday’s rally, its leadership said Monday. But several lawmakers with DSA ties are distancing themselves from what was said at the event.
“It should not be hard to shut down hatred and antisemitism where we see it. That is a core tenet of solidarity,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y) and one of six DSA members in Congress, said in a statement late Monday — her first comments on the rally.
“The bigotry and callousness expressed in Times Square on Sunday were unacceptable and harmful in this devastating moment. It also did not speak for the thousands of New Yorkers who are capable of rejecting both Hamas’ horrifying attacks against innocent civilians as well as the grave injustices and violence Palestinians face under occupation,” she said.
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I agree, but you have to remember that the Israeli state wants it this way. They want the world to conflate Jewish and Israeli in order to hide their own fascism. And they will drag every Jewish person to their pit if allowed to. Just like Hamas wants to tangle every Muslim into their warped worldview with their holy war bullshit excuse for violence.
Reminds me about how frequently criticisms about the Chinese government used to be met with accusations of racism. As if genetics and government are at all the same thing.
Well, I read a lot of people’s opinions on why China needs to get nuked since they are lesser humans on mainstream reddit subs, it is not like there is a lot of racism and general hate against China and its citizens on the internet.
It doesn’t help that the pro-Israel factions accuses anyone criticizing Israel an anti-semite, even other Semitic people.
It seems that Jews are the only people that can criticize Israel without being called anti-semite. They get the self-hating Jew label instead.
Serious questions: Semites are Northern African and ??? Wikipedia was less than helpful, including the embedded link about ancient Semites https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic_people
Semites are a large group of ethnicities that came about thousands of years ago and still exist today. Two of the largest groups are Arabs and Hebrews.
Yeah, was thinking Palestinians are Semites too. Thanks.
No. Jews who come out against these actions are “self hating”. You can’t win.
Tbf that’s probably by Israel’s design.
The more people are bullied into associating with Israel by antisemites, the more likely they are to hop on the right of return bandwagon.
This is partially because they want their own version of america’s demographic life support, partially because they want more settlers, and partially because they still have a SERIOUS chip on the shoulder over how American jews flatly rejected Zionism and the creation of Israel at the outset.
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What anti-Semitic things were said at this particular rally? Do you know? Maybe I missed something, but the article seems rather sparse on details.
There were no anti-semitic things spoken. The issue is that both sides lack leadership and diplomacy. There must be a third party that comes in and breaks up the fighting.
The article is about a specific rally being condemned for being “reprehensible”. I want to know why it’s being called that and Politico is entirely unhelpful.
Smells of bias.
Anti-israel protests are anti-Semitic the same way that police stop-and-frisk policies are racist.
If you’re only subjecting one particular group to this special standard of scrutiny, it really doesn’t matter if you, personally, are a bigot. You’re participating in a bigoted system.