1/24/2024 0 Comments Free Doomed Lands![]() ![]() Israel’s retaliatory bombing campaign against Hamas has killed at least 15,000 Palestinians and transformed calls for a cease-fire, briefly fringe, into a cause that mainstream Democrats like Dick Durbin and Peter Welch now support. Rather than slink away, the anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian left has only grown more emboldened. ![]() ![]() (Denying or explaining away the atrocities of Hamas, an authoritarian religious movement bent on Israel’s destruction, is still a fast way to marginalization in the American political context.) Weeks later, Tlaib was censured in Congress for, in part, endorsing the “from the river to the sea” slogan, which is a call for either Palestinian liberation or the destruction of Israel, depending on who speaks it and who hears it. It was condemned by Democrats across the spectrum, from Kathy Hochul to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. At the rally, which was not organized by DSA, protesters were criticized for chanting, “Resistance is justified when people are occupied,” among other things. Left-wing intellectual spaces have been riven, too.ĭSA, in particular, initially drew furious condemnation from a wide range of powerful politicians, including Mayor Eric Adams, for promoting on social media an anti-Israel rally the day after the Hamas attack. Meanwhile, various think pieces in prestige publications ruminated on the potentially damaging fissures within the progressive left. Ritchie Torres, the Democratic congressman from the Bronx, declared that the Democratic Socialists of America had made themselves “radioactive” and that those associating with them would do so at “their own political peril.” AIPAC and various pro-Israel groups promised to pump enormous sums of money into Democratic primaries next year to unseat critics of the Jewish state, particularly Michigan’s Rashida Tlaib, a Palestinian American who called Israel’s war in Gaza a “genocide,” and Minnesota’s Ilhan Omar. In the crackling first days after Hamas slaughtered 1,200 people in Israel and took more than 200 hostages, a fast consensus emerged on the American political scene: The pro-Palestinian left was going to suffer. ![]()
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