The resolution makes a dangerous conflation—and quite a few Democrats gave their wholehearted support.

“The resolution suggests that all anti-Zionism—it states—is antisemitism. That’s either intellectually disingenuous or just factually wrong,” said New York Representative Jerry Nadler, who voted present. “The authors if they were at all familiar with Jewish history & culture should know about Jewish anti-Zionism that was and is expressly not antisemitic. This resolution ignores the fact that even today, certain Orthodox Hasidic Jewish communities … have held views that are at odds with the modern Zionist conception.”

  • @Strawberry
    3•7 months ago

    There are nonviolent Palestinian leaders, in the West Bank, in the diaspora, and probably in Gaza outside of Hamas. And the movement for Palestinian rights is finally being heard on the global stage.

    Israel and Hamas will need to be forced. Nonviolent protest, boycotts, sanctions, are ways of exerting force without fueling the flames of war.

    I know it’s hard to believe in the goodness of people and their power to change things for the better, but it is essential when the alternative is brutality

    • themeatbridge
      2•7 months ago

      I know it’s worth trying, but I don’t believe it will work, and I don’t believe that everyone calling for an end to Israel thinks that it can be achieved without brutality. That’s my whole point.