#AIPAC funds Republicans

[nando161mando]

Democrats and Republicans are both in the pockets of AIPAC

[belleandre-belle]

Rudy Giuliani says that Palestinian children are taught to kill Americans at age two, which is an absolute lie. What’s not a lie is that Americans have murdered over 20,000 Palestinian children and counting.

NO VOTES FOR GENOCIDE. WE ARE THE RED LINE.

[rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world]

Last Friday evening, Bostonians came together from all over the city to converge on South Station and publicly demand an #ArmsEmbargoNow.

We demand that @senwarren, @edmarkey, and all elected officials:

1. Support @sensanders’ #JRD and call for an arms embargo against Israel;

2. Stop taking democracy-undermining AIPAC bribes and put human rights and the will of your constituents before profits and empire-building.

3. Put forth legislation towards ending our funding of Israel’s genocide of Palestine and their invasion of Lebanon.

If our elected officials can’t show basic human decency, we will find new candidates who will.

#boston #southstation #stopthegenocide #freepalestine #lebanon #israel #palestine #gaza #massachusetts #politics #democrats #republicans #humanrights #protest #elections #localpolitics #activism #community #freedomofspeech #gazagenocide #election2024

[7thedisasterdyke]

Kamala has already supported KOSA (Project 2025). She has told us she is going to continue to murder babies and families. She wants to turn Gaza into real estate for white supremacists. She invited right wing goons to speak at the DNC. The Biden admin just funded alt-right chuds in Venezuela to riot because Biden thinks the socialist cheated and thinks Venezuelan Trump won instead. As a queer, indigenous person, I know Kamala will be just as bad as Trump for my rights if not worse because she wants conservatives to vote for her. The Democratic party and AIPAC has ousted progressive dems in their primaries and replaced them with obedient right wing Dems. The Biden admin sends weapons to nazis in Ukraine who killed 14,000 Ukrainians who protested against the Right wing coup that Obama supported a decade ago. Obama is responsible for many innocent deaths (but y'all treat him like a celebrity saint). Obama and Hillary had Gaddafi killed. Libyan had it all. Obama ordered a drone strike on paramedics rescuing people from the wedding he just bombed (they call it the Obama two tap). Anyway, you can keep defending the Dems moving 3 clicks right because it's better than 10 clicks right with Republicans, and saying it's an evil system, but you're helping to enable it. If we get Trump, it's nobody's fault but the Dems. I actually thought Kamala would be better than Biden. I was wrong. I'm not gonna vote for anyone who is responsible for murdering children and selling the rights of marginalized people (including myself) to Republicans. You can say "Oh but she said 'trans rights'" all you want but this is my 4th election and Dems keep supporting transphobic dems and anti-abortion dems and they parade them around like the good guys. The marginalized people you claim to support are all screaming at you to not support these right wing Dems and join them on the left. You don't get to sell them out for your own comfort. Your rights aren't more important than mine and vice versa. We've been asking you to move left with us since at least Obama turned out to have lied about codifying Roe and decided bailing out his bank buddies was more important. But we're watching you move right. We will survive either way but the dems want you to use scare tactics because they want to be the ones at the wheel of the fascist machine. So if you don't like it then don't participate. Don't play their game. They both play for the same team. They want your consent for nuclear war against made up enemies. It's sick. Stop believing their lies and supporting them. Supporting Kamala is the same as supporting Trump. You're just voting for aesthetics. Lots of liberals have already lost their way anyway and say they'd rather be fascists than socialists. Human rights begin on the left and the dems have never been left of center. Ffs liberals pulled out of a pride fest because of Palestinian inclusion. Lots of them already are self admitted zionists. Do you want to belong to a political party that openly supports white Christian supremacy cosplaying as judaism to avoid criticism? The two party system is white supremacy and they are using a black woman to play identity politics with people who only see her as color and refuse to see that she's a tool to them. Anyway there's room at the leftist table. Or you can keep going to the right until you no longer remember what you stood for.

I'm not gonna lie, sending one big chunk of text with no space for me to breathe between paragraphs is tough for me to read, but I'm going to anyway, because I foresee I'm gonna get quite a few of these.

So I'm going to go through this one point at a time:

Support of KOSA: sadly true, but that's an easy thing to change minds on. Not like she's the only one in the senate who wants it passed on either side.

Continue to murder babies and families: I can't tell if you mean the border or Gaza, but in either case, Trump will do many times worse.

Gaza into WS real estate: no she doesn't. She's been more outspoken in favor of an end to the genocide than any other presidential candidate in modern history.

Invited right-wingers into the DNC: first, I don't think she personally invited them. Second, even if she did, she still needs to pull Trump supporters and marginally right-wing independents to vote for her. We want a better society for everyone, after all.

Venezuela: the "socialist" has a proven track record of human rights abuses, and other than that, I don't know enough about the country to speak further on the subject.

Just as bad for queer/indigenous as Trump because she wants the right to vote for her: seriously, this is just point 4 worded differently. The purpose of an election (in the US) is to make yourself palatable to as many people as possible so you can beat the massive core of voters each party has. Also, again, we're trying to make a better society for everyone, right?

Dems/AIPAC ousting progressives in primaries: sure, AIPAC has a large amount of money to outspend progressives, and even still, the only actual "ousting" I've heard of was Cory Bush.

Biden sending weapons to Nazis in Ukraine: ok look, I'm sick of leftists parroting Russian propaganda. The government of Russia is authoritarian and right-wing, Trump idolizes Putin, and Putin has allied himself with Kim Jong-Un, who Trump also loves. Also, a few far-right nationalist groups fighting to maintain their nation (alongside non-far-right troops) is to be expected. And respectfully, I don't care how Obama was involved, because that's irrelevant to Russia literally invading.

Obama having innocents killed: yeah, duh, he was a US president in the US Empire's Military Age. That doesn't mean anything, and Harris was never even part of his administration, so your point is just a complete non sequitur to begin with.

"Defending Dems moving 3 clicks right when it's better than 10 clicks with Repubs": would you rather have the 10 clicks? Like, actually. Democrats are already right-wing. Harris's policies would work to move the country left, actually.

"If we get Trump, it's nobody's fault but the dems": actually, no, it's the fault of people who try to persuade the minority of far-left democrats to not vote for the best possible option.

Dems keep supporting transphobic/anti-abortion dems: yeah, sure, I'll give you that one, because guess what? They're more easily convinced to vote in their trans constituents' best interests regardless. They're more likely to vote to maintain abortion rights because they're more likely to listen to those constituents.

Marginalized people screaming at me to join them on the left: I am on the left. Incredibly far left, in fact. I'm just not stupid enough to think that we have enough people to change things. Want me to vote third party? I think I'd rather go with the safer option for marginalized people and pick someone with any chance of beating Trump.

I'm a sellout: no, I'm really not. I just understand that the system is overwhelmingly rigged against the non-establishment picks.

Dems want to be at the wheel of the fascist machine: better the one who has a chance at turning it around than the one who'll turn up the throttle.

Don't like it, don't participate: this isn't like a boycott. If every left-winger decided not to participate, Trump would almost certainly win by default. We "play their game" because without the game's existence, Trump's devoted followers would have already had every minority expunged from the country.

They both play for the same team: they're not even playing the same game! Trump and his Republican lackeys want to eliminate the concept of voting entirely, wants to end freedoms for all minorities, and wants to establish theocracy. Democrats want to maintain the democratic system, establish more rights for minorities, and make life better for Americans. This is also my answer to "Supporting Kamala is the same as supporting Trump": it's just not true.

Lots of liberals are self-admitted Zionists: believing Jewish people have a right to the chunk of land the Jewish ethnoreligion originated from, in this world with borders, where they can be unequivocally safe from the historic oppression they have faced for the last several thousand years in... is a fairly common sentiment. That is Zionism. There is a difference between believing that, and believing that they should be the only ones living in that specific region that was inhabited when they got there, which is Kahanism. In order to figure out, in a way that makes as many people happy as possible with the outcome, what to do with Israel, we need someone at the helm of the US who is not Kahanist. Trump notably supports Kahanists. Harris, notably, does not. At least not publicly. Do you know how hard it is to keep a secret as a presidential nominee?

The two-party system is WS: YES! It is! But we're not going to beat it from the outside because, and this is important, they have the power to silence us if we get too loud, and they will absolutely use it. The US has the third largest military in the world by active personnel, at 1.3 million. Do you think we would be able to train enough people to beat that? Think we can afford enough fighter planes to defeat 4 of the top 5 air forces in the world? Until the answer to that is yes, I'm going to keep voting in US elections for the lesser of two evils, because I'd rather fight them, than the trigger-happier alternatives.

"You can keep going to the right until you no longer remember what you stood for": also known as "doing anything a different flavor of leftist doesn't like".

I'd like to end this with a series of open questions:

Did you know that, of the third-party candidates for president, only Jill Stein has any chance of winning enough states?

Did you know that she's only ever won Massachusetts?

Did you know that the Claudia de la Cruz can only win by write-in?

Did you know that Cornel West isn't even on enough ballots to win?

I've seen leftists calling for votes for all three.

Final question to everyone voting "third-party or not at all":

Which one of them will beat Harris in every state?

Have a good night, and stay whelmed.

[hussyknee]

The wild thing about the Vote Blue rhetoric is that according to them, Biden is an uwu helpless baby who's had no power to stop any of the shit that's gone down the last three years but if Trump comes to power he can end democracy as you (don't) know it. You just have to get through this election cycle because the GOP can't find its own ass with both hands and a mirror on a stick and they're breaking apart, but they're also about to transform into the Third Reich. If Biden gets a second term you can totally push him further left when he isn't even up for re-election, but not with half the country on the streets a year out from when he does still need their votes. Biden can't get Netanyahu to stop because he has no power over Israel, but Trump will be able to destabilize democracy all across the world. The enemy is either weak or strong, y'all can't have it both ways.

Also, "If democrats haven't earned your vote, what has the republicans done to earn your complicity"????? You think this is how democracy works??? But oh, that's right you don't have a democracy, you have Evil (genocide without personal enjoyment) and Super Evil (genocide with personal fun). But you need to Vote Blue to save the democracy you don't have. Which they've had three years and one more to get around to saving, just like they had two years to legislate Roe vs Wade and eight before that, but they need another four to do anything.

"We cannot afford to divide the left and alienate voters!" you yell, as you harrass people whose relatives are currently being starved and blown to pieces as the entire world watches, a full year before elections, proving you have no intention of holding the Dems accountable even for a literal genocide. Because your winning strategy here is to scream at people for having a moral compass and basic empathy for their fellow human. These are luxuries you cannot afford because the GOP doesn't have any either, but the two parties are different bro, I swear bro, pay no attention to Hakeem Jeffries standing next to Mike Johnson and Christian Zionists bro, don't look at how much AIPAC has bought and paid for the whole of Congress bro, don't look at the bipartisan support for sending billions to Zionists overseas while cutting funding for every public service bro, don't look at how much more land for fracking they've sold off than Trump ever did bro, don't look at cop city and the border wall and ICE crackdowns and kids still in cages three years later bro, Biden totally controlled COVID and saved millions of lives unlike Trump and the pandemic is definitely not still raging bro, queer and reproductive rights are definitely not flaking off piecemeal under the Dems right now bro, Project 2025 can definitely happen when Obama couldn't even push through Medicaid with a trifecta bro, bro where are you going bro—

[odinsblog]

So Henry Cuellar has been indicted for bribery, foreign influence and corruption. Henry Cuellar, the Islamophobic, homophobic, anti-abortion, anti-immigrant, anti-gun control “Democrat” who often voted with Trump.

Hm.

That’s wild af.

Too bad there’s not someone who was more honest and trustworthy who the DNC and the DCCC could have backed and promoted back when Cuellar was running for office.

That’s really too bad, especially since the margin for the Senate and the House will probably be sO damn close in 2024. Too bad there wasn’t a pro-gun control, pro-immigration, pro-LGBTQ candidate that Democrats could have rallied behind. Instead of funding a conservative, anti-abortion Republican who just called himself a Democrat.

Because if there really was a pro-choice, pro-immigration, pro-gun control candidate who Democrats could have backed, then a lot of people would probably be saying “I FUCKING TOLD YOU SO” right about now. Yeah, I would probably be a little bit pressed. Angry even.

But what do I know, right? I mean, it probably doesn’t matter that AIPAC poured millions and millions against…

Know what, never mind. I guess we’re all good doe, because there wasn’t anyone else who could have taken that seat, the seat that was in a safe Democratic district.

Maybe Democrats will learn and support an actual progressive next time?

It’s all too bad.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Daniel Marans at HuffPost:

Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) lost her Democratic primary on Tuesday, shrinking the ranks of the House’s left-wing “Squad” and delivering another major victory to the pro-Israel and business-friendly groups that backed her challenger. Wesley Bell, the St. Louis County prosecutor, defeated Bush. Since Missouri’s 1st Congressional District, which includes all of St. Louis and many of its northern and western suburbs, is overwhelmingly Democratic, Bell is all but assured of a seat in Congress come November.

Bell’s victory over Bush marks the second “Squad” member in recent months to fall to a challenger heavily funded by pro-Israel groups. Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.), who, like Bush, ousted an incumbent in 2020, lost his race to Westchester County Executive George Latimer this past June. Justice Democrats, the left-wing group that backed Bush’s first successful run, cast the race as yet another referendum on the power of big money to decide elections. “This race is about the future of our democracy and the soul of our Democratic Party, frankly,” Usamah Andrabi, a spokesperson for Justice Democrats, told HuffPost on Monday. “This is a question about whether we want to let a handful of Republican mega-donors dictate the outcome of Democratic primaries, or do we want to move forward to elect more nurses and everyday people to represent the community’s best interests.”

Bush, an ordained pastor and registered nurse, indeed faced a massive fundraising deficit. As Andrabi noted, Bell had the support of some local Republican donors — and many national megadonors from both parties, through the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Super PACs supporting Bell outspent those supporting Bush by a more than 3-to-1 margin. Spending by pro-Bell groups included about $8.6 million from AIPAC’s United Democracy Project, $1.5 million from LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman’s Mainstream Democrats PAC, $1.4 million from the crypto-industry-backed FairShake PAC, and nearly $500,000 from the Democratic Majority for Israel PAC. Bush made national waves with her July 2021 sit-in on the U.S. Capitol steps to draw attention to the expiration of the federal government’s COVID-19-era eviction moratorium. Her action got results; President Joe Biden responded by extending the policy, though the Supreme Court stopped it a few weeks later. Later that year, in a bid to shore up support for abortion rights, Bush spoke on national television — and in a House hearing — about her experience getting an abortion after being raped at age 17.

Bush’s allies — and she retains the support of many local elected officials — see her as an authentic tribune of the Black Lives Matter movement, which was born in Ferguson, Missouri, following the police killing of Michael Brown in 2014. Unlike many other Democrats in Washington, Bush continues to embrace calls to “defund the police.” Bell, who also got his political start during the Ferguson protests and unseated a more conservative incumbent prosecutor in 2018, has, by contrast, disappointed many of his former fellow activists. They fault him for declining to prosecute Darren Wilson, the police officer who killed Brown, and for not more rapidly reducing the county’s jail and prison populations, even as he points to the creation of a conviction review unit and the expansion of drug diversion programs.

[...] Finally, Bush has been among the most outspoken critics of Israel in Congress, particularly after Israel invaded Gaza in response to Hamas’ terror attack on Oct. 7. She was not only an early advocate for a ceasefire, but has also accused Israel of genocide ― a charge that remains highly disputed. And in an interview with The New York Times out on Monday, Bush expressed ambivalence about describing Hamas as a terrorist group, though her campaign later walked it back. “Would they qualify to me as a terrorist organization? Yes,” Bush told the Times. “But do I know that? Absolutely not.” Bush’s stances cost her the support of Susan Talve, a progressive St. Louis rabbi who leads the only synagogue in Bush’s district. But they also unsettled some other allies who see her national profile as a distraction from the needs of the high-poverty, majority Black district.

In the battle of activists rising from the Ferguson protests in #MO01, incumbent Rep. Cori Bush (D) goes down in defeat to AIPAC-backed St. Louis County Prosecutor Wesley Bell (D) in the Democratic Primary. Bell is favored to win this November.

[thepioden]

Okay it’s maybe a little late to ask but I’m going back over the Nebraska election options and I know our politics are like aligned but I feel like our senator options are bad either way like Dan Osborn republicans saying hes republican and he Sides with trump (🤢) but deb fischer republicans saying he’s fake republican and lying and besties with Bernie and idk I think I would just like to hear other people’s thoughts

Dan Osborn is a pretty centrist, Labor-first populist candidate. The Democrats are pretty much ghosting him, because a Dem does not have a shot at sniping Fischer's seat, but an Independent apparently does. He's really trying pull over conservatives right now, because Trump and McConnell are backing Fischer hard. He's got some platform things I'm into, some I don't care for, and a general pro-Union, pro-Labor, anti-Corporatist position that generally aligns with the thrust of my values. I wish he was as cool as the Fischer-funded attack ads make him sound.

Things I like:

Immigration: He supports a path to citizenship and his concerns about undocumented immigrants are mostly labor-based.

Healthcare: removing private equity in senior care, improving protections for elders in care facilities. Full abortion access and reversing trans healthcare restrictions.

Labor: improving overtime take home pay, tighten 'independent contractor' loopholes, mandatory paid bereavement and sick leave. He's also a very Union guy.

Right to Repair: this is just good practice, and he's coming at it from a Small Farmers' perspective in particular which is good for Nebraska agriculture and family farmers who aren't owned by Bill Gates.

Things I don't care for:

Blue Lives Matter: Support/funding for law enforcement. He includes first responders in this, but I'm... not thrilled about it. Also pro-military-funding, but at least it's funding for vets and soldiers' wages rather than Chuck More Money In The Pentagon Black Hole of Cash.

Second amendment rights/pro 2A. He supports education but not restriction, which. Well. Better than nothing :\

Immigration: he's real gung-ho about border security and the "build the wall" stuff.

The "sides with Trump" bits. From what I can tell, this is lip service to sway conservatives, because the Trump things he's siding with are some of Trump's big hypocrite talking points like "draining the swamp." Feels icky, though.

Ultimately, Nebraska is not running a Democrat and certainly not a true leftist, but it feels like this Centrist independent could deny the Republicans a hitherto safe seat. I will be voting Osborn, because he has "Things I like" points, where Fischer has... paid FMLA, and some pretty okay ag bills. Meanwhile, Fischer has much more damning "Things I don't care for" points, like abortion restriction, aid to Israel, denying aid to anyone who recognizes Palestine as a sovereign state, harsher legal penalties for assaulting cops (vs. assaulting non-cops), and choking out the EPA's operating budget, as well as endorsements from Trump, Pillen, Ricketts, AIPAC, and the Omaha Police Union.

Also, don't forget that Pricketts is up to try and hold his quid pro quo seat! Does Preston Love Jr. have a snowball's chance in hell? Probably not, but you can still vote for him.

[azspot]

Biden has always been an ardent militarist — he was calling for war with Iraq five years before the U.S. invaded. He built his political career by catering to the distaste of the white middle class for the popular movements, including the anti-war and civil rights movements, that convulsed the country in the 1960s and 1970s. He is a Republican masquerading as a Democrat. He joined Southern segregationists to oppose bringing Black students into Whites-only schools. He opposed federal funding for abortions and supported a constitutional amendment allowing states to restrict abortions. He attacked President George H. W. Bush in 1989 for being too soft in the “war on drugs.” He was one of the architects of the 1994 crime bill and a raft of other draconian laws that more than doubled the U.S. prison population, militarized the police and pushed through drug laws that saw people incarcerated for life without parole. He supported the North American Free Trade Agreement, the greatest betrayal of the working class since the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act. He has always been a strident defender of Israel, bragging that he did more fundraisers for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) than any other Senator.

Chris Hedges

[dalekofchaos]

Tired of the "lesser evil" and tired of genocide

I am just tired. I am tired of having to choose between two cartoonishly evil capitalists every 4 years.

One is the literal capitalist pig you see in the old anti capitalist propaganda, a convicted felon and is on record of being on Epstein's Island(who now owns Epstein's plane) and raping a girl who coincidentally looks like his daughter. The other one is "top cop" who wants to make America the most "lethal army in the world" and as of right now has no policy.

Both have horrendous boarder policies, both will be funding the police and both will arm and fund Israel's genocide.

Sugarcoat it all you want. The "ceasefire" that Harris and the liberals spout out that they constantly promise is just code word for "hostages returned home so Israel can continue the genocide"

I don't know how to tell you that if Ronald FUCKING Reagan pressured Israel to stop their siege of Beirut in 1982 because human casualties had gotten too high - around 5000 people. Now 40k+ have been killed and this admin CONTINUES to send them money and weapons.

If Ronald Reagan is more left than you, you have fucked up.

George Bush called for an independent Palestinian state in 2002! Are you motherfuckers goldfish? Some wishy washy bullshit about self-determination is enough to impress you? She’s being outflanked by REAGAN AND BUSH!!!!

Even Nixon tried to withhold weapons… But then the israelis threatened to nuke the whole world.

"We are working on a ceasefire" Stop arming Israel, YOU ARE THE FUCKING FIRE, JUST FUCKING CEASE. YOU HAVE THAT FUCKING POWER.

If you come out long worse than Ronald Reagan and George W Bush, you are the bad guy!

I don't want to hear "Trump bad" or the couchfucker. On his best days George Bush was a worse president than Donald Trump. The Iraq war was worse than anything Trump did. 2,000,000 civilians killed and 37,000,000 were forced to flee their homes. Nearly everything terrible Trump did in office, Bush laid the groundwork for it. and the fucking democrats rehabilitated him.

I am so fucking tired of the "lesser evil" you want me to root for the "lesser evil" that covered their ears and mocked the names of Palestinian children being named and wouldn't fucking let a Palestinian American speak at the DNC. No offense, but fuck you

I am so fucking tired of human rights being held hostage because YOU empowered the Republicans.

You had ages to Codify RVW and didn't fucking do it. You allowed the Republicans to kill it and you let them see what they can do and because of that we have Project 2025 on the horizon and you have completely and utterly fucked over women and the LGBTQA+ community just so you can hold our fucking rights hostage as leverage for us to vote for you.

Here's what's gonna happen. Either we get a straight up Christofascist dystopian nightmare or "nothing will fundamentally change 2.0"

UNFUCKINGFRIENDLY FUCKING REMINDER, WE HAD MULTIPLE UN RESOLUTIONS TO FREE THE HOSTAGES AND END THE GENOCIDE, BUT THE US CONSTANTLY VETOED IT.

One Holocaust does not justify another. Read that again.

The Republicans and Democrats are just two wings of the same bird.

Fuck Kamala Harris. Fuck Netanyahu. Fuck Biden. Fuck Trump. Fuck Israel. Fuck America. Fuck Blinken. Fuck AIPAC. Fuck the IDF.

Israel has continued to commit genocide against the people of Palestine while Americans FUND this and remain SILENT.

Fuck you demons. Free Palestine.

[feline17ff]

This is what millions from AIPAC buys in the Senate. Today, we confronted several Senators ahead of the expected vote on $118 billion dollars for sending weapons to Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan, as well as militarizing the border. Even though there's major support for sending weapons to all these places in both parties, the Democrats and Republicans were unable to reach an agreement to move forward with the bill. Still, funding for all these wars is expected to come to a vote soon, and it is vital that we apply as much pressure as possible to stop it. While homelessness in the U.S. is at a record high, while most of the country lives paycheck to paycheck, while mega corporations pollute our communities, these Senators have pledged allegiance to Israel's genocide in Gaza before all else. Call Congress: 202-224-3121 Email Congress: codepink.org/nomoremilitaryaid

[cazort]

While left-wing activists in the US are equating Biden to Hitler and calling him names like "Genocide Joe" for acting too little, too late to crack down on Israel's atrocities, meanwhile in Israel, far-right politicians are equating Biden to Hamas and making him into the enemy, while the Israeli hardline lobby including AIPAC continues to fund and promote farther-right candidates both in general elections and primaries.

Please remember when you vote in the 2024 presidential election that there is a massive difference in stances between the two parties.

Biden has dragged his feet and made only small, reluctant gestures to crack down on Israel, but he has cracked down. We have seen:

For the first time ever, the US abstained rather than voted against a UN vote condemning Israel.

For the first time ever, the US started sanctioning and banning from entry in the US Israelis involved in and advocating for settler violence in the West Bank.

For the first time ever, the US paused arms shipments to Israel, in response to Israel threatening to invade Rafah.

Meanwhile from the Republican party we are seeing:

Republicans trying to pass legislation to force Biden to send weapons to Israel.

Predominately Republicans (far more than Democrats) trying to criminalize support for BDS.

Republicans calling for authoritarian crackdowns on pro-Palestinian protests, including calls for police and even military (National Guard) involvement.

All but one Republican senators voting against oversight to the US military aid to Israel, while far more Democrats voted for oversight.

Far-right judges appointed by Republicans taking unprecedented and extreme stances like saying they won't hire Columbia graduates because the university has been allowing protests or has not been cracking down severely enough, in spite of the university if anything showing severe bias against the protestors and actively recruiting NYPD to disperse them.

Even if you want to be a one-issue voter in this election, the clear better choice is Biden. He is the only candidate who has a chance of winning other than the Republican, and he is already making a tangible difference to what situation the Palestinians would be in relative to if Trump or any Republican president were in there.

[griseldagimpel]

The Democratic Party and the Uncommitted Movement

At the Democratic National Convention that just ended, the Uncommitted Movement had requested a speaking slot and been denied, even though the speech in question wasn't anything remotely incendiary. And I wanted to dig into why that was, as a way of digging into why things are the way they are, more broadly.

Let's start with: Why does the United States give military aid to Israel, no matter how reprehensibly Israel behaves?

Well, there are a few reasons:

Israel is an ally, and the U.S.'s military bases there allow for the United States to stage military operations in the region. Which, please understand that this isn't anything unique to Israel. I really want to emphasize this because when people start thinking that Israel is unique here, it leads some nasty antisemitism. But in reality, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the U.K., etc can all do awful things and just have the U.S. hem and haw or look the other way because they're allies and host U.S. military bases. Conversely, if a non-ally like, say, Iran does something awful, the U.S. has a condemning press release all ready to go. It's not right, but it is.

It makes the military-industrial complex rich. When U.S. provides military aid to a country, the money ends up in the pockets of an American weapons manufacture.

Candidates who oppose genocide will be targeted by a Political Action Committee, who will run a candidate against them in the primaries. This has happened twice recently with anti-genocide Democrats in Congress, thanks to AIPAC. (But again, it's only AIPAC in this specific context. If it were a different country that we were talking about, it would be a different PAC. This isn't something unique to Israel committing genocide.)

And these reasons are why the Democratic Party doesn't currently support a weapons embargo, and why if people - such as the Uncommitted Movement - don't push to change things, elected Democratic Party members will still act to give weapons to Israel, even though Israel is perpetrating a genocide.

Change in politics isn't just about electing good people. Like, you want elected officials whose consciences will weigh on them, but more is needed than that. Because the forces pushing the horrid status quo along are powerful.

Okay, so what counters the above forces, aside from an elected official's conscience?

Kamala Harris really needs to win Michigan to with the presidency, due to how the Electoral College works.

It's easier for things to not happen than to happen. Actually, let me tease this one out. Establishing actual, lasting peace between Israel and Palestine will complicated and tricky, and some of it will be out of the United States' hands. But the U.S. not giving Israel bombs to perpetrate a genocide is easy - Congress just has to not pass a bill OR the president just has to veto the bill (and Congress than has to not override the president) - and if the U.S. stopped giving Israel bombs, it would make the complicated, tricky work more feasible, even though it wouldn't be the complicated, tricky work itself.

The actual base of the Democratic Party is by and large not sympathetic to the reasons why the Democratic Party (like the Republican Party) currently supports giving military aid to a country actively committing genocide. (Obligatory note here that there are some elected members of the Democratic Party who are voting against funding the genocide.)

Which brings me to the DNC and the Uncommitted Movement having wanted a speaker. The Uncommitted Movement is doing laudable work pushing against the forces above, and trying to get a speaker was a strategy to stop the U.S. funding the genocide. But getting a speaker wasn't the end goal in itself. Either they'd get a speaker and be able to make a direct appeal to the movers and shakers within the Party OR they wouldn't get a speaker and then that becomes a story in and of itself -- allowing them to make a direct appeal to the Democratic Base.

And that brings me to why I wanted to make this post: I don't want you to take the Uncommitted Movement not getting a speaker as reason to write the Democratic Party off wholesale. The speaker wasn't the point. It was a means to an end, and that end - changing the Democratic Party so that it en mass no longer funds genocide - is still the same. The next step is to write to the Democratic Party about how disappointed you were in them that the Uncommitted Movement didn't get a speaker at the DNC.

Give them push back because the goal is to make the pros of Democrats not supporting genocide outweigh the cons of the Democrats not supporting genocide. And these are the pros and cons for the Democrats. Just so it's clear.

And if you're scared - as a lot of people are scared - that rocking the boat will hurt Harris' chances of winning (and we do want Harris to win), take a deep breath. It's still only August. The earliest early voting doesn't start until late September. Rock the boat now to change the Democratic Party. We can do "okay everyone come together to elect Harris and other Democrats because we do NOT want Trump and the Republicans to win" later, when we're closer to the election.

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Put this on tiktok but it's likely going to get removed:

AIPAC is behind most of the pro-Irsael to the point of cutting $14 billion from our IRS budget to help fund their military type craziness. Most US politicians are in their pocket and they are also the ones pushing legislation to make criticizing the Israel government illegal in the US and deporting all Palestinians in the US and just a shit ton of other anti-Arabic foreign policy.

Also a reminder that Netanyahu (Israeli Prime Minister, currently under investigation by the International Criminal Court for war crimes from before and after the continued siege of Gaza started) and his extremist administration are pushing for "Greater Israel" which would involve conquering Jordan, Lebanon, parts of Iraq, Syria, and Saudi Arabia. The proposed map looks like this:

There are many ways American imperialism and Evangelical Zionism would benefit from this map. It gives an American ally control of natural gas reserves off the coast of Gaza, it gives access to build the Ben Gurion Canal and the ability to construct an oil pipeline from Saudi Arabia into Europe and dominate the energy sector. It also allows America to funnel its Jewish population out of America without expressly deporting them. There is literally so much wrong with this.

But Americans can protest AIPAC directly and attempt to sever the connection between this lobbying group and our politicians. First by checking if our reps have already accepted AIPAC money (I recommend using opensecrets.org but googling usually works just as well), contacting them, and telling them that if they continue to accept AIPAC and AIPAC affiliate donations you will volunteer for thier opposition in the coming election. Then try to find a candidate running who doesn't accept AIPAC money and volunteer or donate for their campaign. Also, you don't have to be a politician's constituent to contact them. This means you can spam-fax their office or mail them physical form letters demanding action against Israel's genocide. These physical documents must be handled by actual staff and preserved so this is very disruptive for them.

AIPAC also has a website with a contact form and phone number you can call.

I would recommend filling the name and address fields with junk information (nothing too obvious for them to filter out) and then type whatever you would like to say in the actual message part.

And it wasn't hard for me to find a mailing address for them either.

However it is unlikely this is the only office they have, or that office even has many workers in it. Also if I can successfully convince people to pester them like we did to all those republican rallies in 2020, they can ask Google to remove that info and then remove their contact info from their website.

If we can disrupt AIPAC we can do a lot more good, not just for Palestine, but for Israel and other American backed genocides like in Congo and Sudan.

Please re-blog this, don't just like and move on.

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Molly Redden at HuffPost:

Wesley Bell, a St. Louis prosecutor who is mounting a formidable Democratic primary challenge against Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.), is campaigning as someone who will produce more tangible results for the district while sharing many of her same left-leaning values. But one line on Bell’s political resume is at odds with his promise to champion a progressive agenda. In 2006, Bell managed the campaign of a conservative Republican running for the same seat Bell is seeking today. The candidate, Mark J. Byrne, ran as a fierce abortion opponent and gun rights crusader. “I intend to protect the rights of the unborn,” his campaign website read. “I believe that there is no greater job for elected representatives.”

He ultimately lost to incumbent Rep. William Lacy Clay Jr., who remained in office until Bush successfully challenged him in 2020. “Nearly 20 years ago, Wesley helped a longtime friend by volunteering with his campaign, in spite of their differences in political affiliations and positions on many issues,” said Anjan Mukherjee, a spokesperson for Bell’s campaign. “Wesley has been a progressive prosecutor, working to overturn wrongful convictions and refusing to prosecute women for abortions, and he will be a progressive member of Congress who works with President Biden.” Byrne, who is now a municipal judge in a neighboring county, said Bell ran his campaign as a friendly favor. The two met as young lawyers in St. Louis County, he recalled, and became friends over years of poker nights. “He didn’t run a Republican’s campaign, he ran a friend’s campaign,” Byrne said in an interview this week with HuffPost. “He and I didn’t see eye to eye on political issues, but he did the best that he could to try to help me get elected.”

[...] As of May, Bell has raised more than $65,000 in contributions from donors who normally give to Republicans. They include a former GOP speaker of the Missouri House, the billionaire hedge fund founder Daniel Loeb, and the former finance chair for Sen. Tim Scott’s (R-S.C.) presidential super PAC. At the end of the last fundraising quarter, Bell reported having about twice as much cash on hand as Bush. Bell has also benefited from more than $300,000 in ads paid for by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s super PAC. While AIPAC backs candidates of both parties who support U.S. military assistance for Israel, progressive critics have noted the PAC’s top contributors are GOP megadonors. Bush is one of AIPAC’s top targets in the 2024 elections. “The fact that my ‘Democratic’ opponent’s entrance into politics was managing a Republican congressional campaign for a far-right, anti-abortion extremist is strikingly consistent, and it should tell voters everything they need to know,” Bush said in a statement. “He can’t be trusted to protect our reproductive freedoms and abortion rights, secure our democracy, and stand up to the MAGA Republican extremists in Congress.”

St. Louis County Prosecutor Wesley Bell is claiming to run as a progressive to unseat incumbent Rep. Cori Bush (D) in MO-01, but in 2006, he helped manage a GOP campaign for House candidate Mark J. Byrne.

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Israel’s Plans For The West

I think it’s fair to say that most of the right is anti-mass immigration.

But then it begs the question: Why are there so many right-wing Zionists?

Now, that question might be confusing to some.

“How on earth are the two related?”

Well, I’ll explain.

There are a few on the right who get it.

Some would be:

Ryan Dawson (@RyLiberty) 🇺🇸

Jake Shields (@jakeshieldsajj) 🇺🇸

Lucas Gage (@Lucas_Gage_) 🇺🇸

Stew Peters (@realstewpeters) 🇺🇸

Sam Parker (@SamParkerSenate) 🇺🇸

Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) 🇺🇸

Nick Fuentes 🇺🇸

Jayda Fransen (@JaydaBF) 🇬🇧

Nick Griffin (@NickGriffinBU) 🇬🇧

Keith Woods (@KeithWoodsYT) 🇮🇪

But, a large portion of the right do not.

Israel has made their goals very clear.

Here are a few quotes from high-ranking Israeli officials:

Palestinians should ‘go to Ireland or the deserts’ - Israeli Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu

"The ongoing war in Gaza presents an opportunity to concentrate on encouraging the migration of the residents of Gaza.” “It is a correct, just, moral, and humane solution” - Israel’s National Security Minister - Itamar Ben-Gvir

"Europe has a long history of assisting refugees fleeing conflicts... countries around the world should offer a haven for Gaza residents who seek relocation" - Former Israeli Ambassador to the UN and current Knesset member Danny Danon

The former deputy director of Mossad, Ram Ben-Barak, added onto Danon’s statement by saying, "Countries can accomplish this by creating well-structured and internationally coordinated relocation programs.”

And then Israel’s Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich, added onto those statements by saying:

“I welcome the initiative of members of Knesset Ram Ben-Barak and Danny Danon on the voluntary immigration of Gaza Arabs to the countries of the world. This is the right humanitarian solution for the residents of Gaza and the entire region,”

“A cell with a small area like the Gaza Strip without natural resources and independent sources of livelihood has no chance to exist independently, economically, and politically in such a high density for a long time.”

“The reception of refugees by the countries of the world that really want their best interests, with the support and generous financial assistance of the international community and within the state of Israel, is the only solution that will bring an end to the suffering and pain of Jews and Arabs alike.”

“The state of Israel will no longer be able to put up with the existence of an independent entity in Gaza,” he added.

You see it now?

Israel plans to ethnically cleanse Gaza, steal the land, and then send millions of Palestinian refugees to western nations.

Now among those refugees, extremists will arise.

Why?

Well, whichever country hosts them, they will believe that country was complicit in the butchering of their people.

They will believe that country played a part in them being evicted from their homeland.

And they will be right!

And that may unfortunately lead to some Palestinians being displaced in North America, Europe, and Oceana who want nothing more than to take revenge on the country that played a role in displacing them.

But Israel won’t care.

It’s not their problem anymore.

And for all you boomer-Zionist idiots that say:

“oH WeLl WhY Do wE HaVe tO TaKE iN ThE ReFuGeEs? nO tO ImMiGration!”

WAKE UP.

You’ll HAVE to take in the refugees because YOUR government is CUCKED by Israel.

Here’s another list for you.

🇺🇸 Just SOME of the Pro-Israeli lobbies operating in the US:

American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)

J Street

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA)

Christians United for Israel (CUFI)

The Israel Project (TIP)

American Jewish Committee (AJC)

StandWithUs

The Israel Allies Foundation (IAF)

The Middle East Forum (MEF)

The Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC)

The National Council of Young Israel (NCYI)

Hadassah, The Women's Zionist Organization of America

The Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA)

The Jewish National Fund (JNF)

The Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA)

The Jewish Policy Center (JPC)

Americans for Peace Now (APN)

The American Friends of Likud

B’nai B'rith International

Emergency Committee for Israel

Z Street

The Israel Forever Foundation

Fuel For Truth

The David Project

Israel Bonds (Development Corporation for Israel

The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA)

Ameinu

The American Friends of Magen David Adom

The American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise (AICE)

The Israel Action Network (IAN)

The American Friends of Shalva Israel

The American Friends of Libi

🇨🇦 Just SOME of the Pro-Israeli lobbies operating in Canada:

Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA)

B’nai Brith Canada

Canadian Friends of Peace Now

StandWithUs Canada

Canadian Antisemitism Education Foundation (CAEF)

Jewish National Fund of Canada (JNF Canada)

Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies (FSWC)

Zionist Organization of Canada (ZOC)

Israel Bonds Canada

🇬🇧 Just SOME of the Pro-Israeli lobbies operating in Britain:

Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI)

Labour Friends of Israel (LFI)

Liberal Democrat Friends of Israel (LDFI)

BICOM (Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre)

Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland

Jewish Leadership Council

UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI)

Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA)

Christian Friends of Israel (CFI)

Anglo-Israel Association (AIA)

Northern Ireland Friends of Israel

We Believe in Israel

The Pinkster Centre

Israel Britain Alliance (IBA)

🇪🇺 Just SOME of the Pro-Israeli lobbies operating throughout Europe:

German-Israeli Society (DIG) 🇩🇪

Italy-Israel Foundation for Culture and the Arts 🇮🇹

Friends of Israel Initiative (FOII) 🇫🇷

CIDI (Centre for Information and Documentation Israel) 🇳🇱

Belgian Friends of Israel 🇧🇪

Finnish Friends of Israel 🇫🇮

Accion y Communicacion sobre Oriente Medio (ACOM) 🇪🇸

Austrian-Israeli Society (ÖIG) 🇦🇹

Czech Friends of Israel 🇨🇿

Danish-Israeli Association (Dansk Israelsk Selskab) 🇩🇰

Hellenic-Israeli Chamber of Commerce 🇬🇷

Hungarian-Israeli Friendship Society 🇭🇺

Polish-Israeli Chamber of Commerce 🇵🇱

Luso-Israeli Chamber of Commerce 🇵🇹

Swedish-Israel Friendship Association 🇸🇪

Slovenian-Israeli Business Club 🇸🇮

Estonian-Israeli Chamber of Commerce 🇪🇪

Latvia-Israel Chamber of Commerce 🇱🇻

Lithuanian Friends of Israel 🇱🇹

Bulgarian-Israeli Chamber of Commerce and Industry 🇧🇬

Romanian Friends of Israel 🇷🇴

Croatian-Israeli Business Club 🇭🇷

Cyprus-Israel Business Association 🇨🇾

Luxembourg-Israel Chamber of Commerce 🇱🇺

Malta-Israel Cultural & Friendship Society 🇲🇹

🇦🇺🇳🇿 Just SOME of the Pro-Israeli lobbies operating in Oceana:

🇦🇺 Australia:

Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ)

Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC)

Zionist Federation of Australia (ZFA)

United Israel Appeal of Australia (UIA)

Jewish National Fund of Australia (JNFA)

Shalom Institute

Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce (AICC)

🇳🇿 New Zealand:

New Zealand Jewish Council

Israel Institute of New Zealand

United Israel Appeal New Zealand

Do you understand now?

Our governments won’t stand up to Israel because effectively, they ARE Israel.

The majority of the western world is controlled by a ZOG (Zionist Occupied Government).

And all you right-wing Zionists have been barking up the wrong tree, and nothing will change unless YOU change who you direct your anger at.

The right-wing has blamed ‘Islamic Extremism’ for the west’s problems.

No, the west’s problem is ISRAEL.

If you had to flee your homeland because it was being blown to bits and everyone around you was being slaughtered, wouldn’t you be angry?

Now YOU may not commit acts of extremism, but can you guarantee none of the others who also feel angry, won’t?

The Zionist Occupied Media (ZOM) have convinced the masses that it’s all due to the fault of ‘Islamic Extremism’.

When in reality, it is extremism being committed by a group of people that have had their lands terrorized, and are angry at their host country for partaking in it.

Now, in no means am I justifying acts of extremism.

Such acts should be condemned and the perpetrators prosecuted.

However, it’s important to understand the root cause.

ISRAEL is the root cause.

Israel lobbies governments, blackmails important figures, and stages false flags to get western countries to fight their wars for them.

As a result, much of the Middle East is destabilized, entire countries are blown up, Middle Eastern leaders are assassinated, millions die, and millions end up being displaced to western countries.

Is it so surprizing that some turn out to be extremists?

Israel doesn't take in any of the refugees; it’s a Jewish supremacist state, why would they?

Among those millions displaced, extremists rise up due to anger directed at their host countries for ruining their homeland and butchering its people, and unfortunately, acts of terror take place.

Then the ZOM, and other well known figures on the Israeli payroll, convince YOU that it’s the fault of ‘Islamic Extremism’.

But again, you’re barking up the wrong tree.

The reason why it’s ‘Islamic Extremism’ is because it is Islamic countries that are being bombed.

It's only logical that if a country is subjected to butchering and bombing, and then its refugees are taken in by the very nations responsible for their plight, it is inevitable that some of these refugees, overwhelmed by anger at these actions, might resort to acts of terror.

If we minded our own business and never destabilized their countries at Israel’s request, then guess what?

We wouldn't have to take in millions of refugees, some of whom might turn out to be extremists, because we hadn't destabilized the region.

They wouldn’t want to come to North America, Europe, or Oceana because their homeland would be doing fine.

And now the exact same thing that happened with Iraq, Libya, Syria, etc., is happening with Palestine.

Israel is butchering them with the complicity of our governments, and then they'll send millions of rightfully angry refugees our way while they continue to steal more Palestinian land.

It’s time to say NO.

Palestine is for the Palestinians.

WE should control OUR governments, not Israel.

It’s time for Israel to be held accountable for their reign of terror over the past 75 years.

If we want to fix our countries, and the world, we MUST address the root cause.

And the root cause is ISRAEL.

So I ask those who GENUINELY want change:

DIRECT YOUR ANGER AT ISRAEL.