#jamaal bowman

[mysharona1987]

It’s interesting that Jamaal Bowman actually was very pro-Isreal…until he actually went there and saw just how bad things really were.

[thekeypa]

“One million Palestinians are trapped in Rafah. There is a ceasefire on the table. A path to peace is in front of us. We must stay strong in our demands to end Netanyahu’s violence and ensure a permanent CeasefireNow!”

[simply-ivanka]

[hussyknee]

A foreign lobby group wielding this much influence is insane. Coupled with the fact that most journalists, students, academics, activists and artists being expelled, fired, persecuted and disproportionately penalised are BIPOC, it seems like white supremacists are using this opportunity as a concerted effort to push minorities out of every institution of influence. It's nothing less than a bipartisan attack by the white establishment on civil rights.

If y'all do not fight like hell for these people US minorities will be fucked no matter how much you vote.

[jloisse]

Congressman Jamaal Bowman:

“Netanyahu is a war criminal.”

“It is a shame that he is addressing Congress.”

“Our tax dollars should not be spent on killing children.”

[odinsblog]

AIPAC, a rightwing conservative, quasi-religious, foreign organization, is interfering with U.S. elections and shaping who is and who isn’t a member of Congress.

AIPAC is currently targeting progressives like Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Summer Lee, Jamaal Bowman, Greg Casar, Delia Ramirez, Maxwell Frost, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and others who do not feel beholden to Israel and are sympathetic to Palestinians.

If AIPAC was a super PAC funded by North Korea, or China, or Russia, or Iran—and interfering in elections by financing the campaigns of specific candidates—almost every member of Congress would be freaking out. And rightly so. This is no different.

[girlactionfigure]

Rhetoric like Jamaal Bowman’s has deeply affected the Jewish community.

Synagogues are being desecrated, vandalized with graffiti and getting bomb threats. Jewish schools are evacuated for security and Jewish children are attacked. Not long ago a violent mob came to a Synagogue in LA.

Bowman, whose district has a large Jewish population, just lost the primary.

Instead of the obvious answer, the world has resorted to the dual loyalty trope. “You can’t trust a J3w to do what’s best for the country they live in because they only care about Israel!”— It can’t be that we’re just worried about our safety which you take away from us. It can’t be that we see how Bowman dehumanizes us with claims that we “segregate ourselves.” It has to be that the nasty, disloyal J3ws used their billions and billions of dollars to make poor Bowman, a former elected public official, lose.

I’m not buying it and neither should you.

Hen Mazzig

[abislwise]

BOWMAN IS OUT

GET FUCKED ANTISEMITE

[lizardbytheriver]

[booasaur]

Continuing to remind people to boost Jamaal Bowman in his primary.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Usamah Andrabi and Alexandra Rojas at Zeteo:

Democrats need more working-class leaders in Congress to be the party of the working class. This past election cycle had more billionaire money than ever before – just 150 billionaire families spent nearly $2 billion to get their preferred candidates elected and win a Republican trifecta in the federal government. In Congress, mostly through AIPAC’s Super PAC, this also included over $30 million specifically into Democratic primaries to unseat two of the most working-class members to ever walk the halls of Congress – former nurse Cori Bush in Missouri and former middle school principal Jamaal Bowman in New York. After AIPAC’s success in these two primaries, the cryptocurrency industry ran a carbon-copy strategy – funneling millions from Wall Street into our elections to buy bipartisanship cover for their policies. Crypto companies have accounted for nearly half of all donations made by corporations this election cycle and, most notably, spent over $40 million to beat anti-crypto, pro-worker Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown in Ohio last year. The richest man in the world, Elon Musk, also recently vowed to fund ‘moderate’ primary challengers to incumbent Democrats in deep blue seats when he doesn’t get what he wants. All this at a time when 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, and, according to a 2017 study, three billionaire families own more wealth than the bottom half of the country.

Oligarchy has become the defining issue of our time – the US is moving rapidly toward an oligarchic and authoritarian society in which billionaires dominate the information we consume, our economic status, and our political representation. The billionaire class has caught on to the threat a new generation of working-class leaders poses to their bottom line. They are investing more than ever in Democratic primaries as a key part of their election strategy because it has been one of the few tactics that has directly threatened their power to operate with impunity in the federal government.

The members of Congress our organization, Justice Democrats, recruited and helped get elected have challenged the status quo. They come from the working class and were elected by the working-class voters of their districts. They won with grassroots donations and refused corporate PAC and lobbyist money, so they are unbought and unbossed. They have forcefully taken on Donald Trump and the GOP over these last six years, and, when necessary, have challenged the leadership within their own party to ensure poor and working people aren’t left behind in policymaking and governance. Whether it is standing with striking workers on the picket line; delivering historic levels of student debt relief and climate investments; sleeping on the Capitol steps to keep people in their homes; or for over a year, fighting to end the genocide being carried out against Palestinians with our tax dollars – Justice Democrats have used the power and megaphones of their congressional offices to speak up and put their bodies on the line to protect working families at home and abroad. They have set a new standard of urgency and leadership for working people in Congress Democrats cannot afford to lose.

After once again losing to Donald Trump and failing to win majorities in the Senate and House, we are in a pivotal moment for the Democratic Party. If Democrats want to be the party of the working class, they need to start confronting the power structures that institutionalize inequality. We cannot lose sight that the same billionaires funding AIPAC and crypto's super PACs are the same billionaires flying Samuel Alito out on a private jet, who are the same billionaires who funded Donald Trump and JD Vance’s victory in November. This is not about which side has the better billionaires – this is about ridding our elections and government of all billionaire and corporate influence and moving forward with a new Democratic Party that takes on the wealthy few to serve the American majority.

This column in Zeteo is 100% correct: Democrats need more working class-aligned leaders in Congress.

[mysharona1987]

[thekeypa]

“Israel continues its assault on Gaza. Now their missiles are hitting a HOSPITAL and Palestinians burned ALIVE before our eyes. We are witnessing Netanyahu’s evil genocide and collective punishment right before our eyes.”

[simply-ivanka]

Isn't It Time To Put Americans First?

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

by Seth Mandel

AOC and her fellow travelers aren’t afraid; they’re entitled. They are throwing a fit because Jews are displaying the audacity to vote against, and make contributions to stymie, people who hate them. The Squad simply wants American Jews to pipe down and know their place.This isn’t surprising. Since Zionism is essentially the expression of equal rights for Jews, anti-Zionists don’t believe the Jewish people have the same privileges to participate in the democratic process as others. Just yesterday I noted that Bowman referred to AIPAC as “the Zionist regime,” the words of someone expressing not fear but outgroup identification—there they are, he is saying, the others.

In fact, AIPAC’s positions are unquestionably popular on the whole—even AOC is capable of seeing that. But the overall point that campaign donations represent only unpopular opinions is ironic given that, as others pointed out to her, AOC is no fundraising lightweight. If her position is that she is bought and paid for, and therefore she assumes that to be true of others—well, that is quite the projection, but please leave the American Jewish community out of it.

At this point, Ocasio-Cortez essentially exists to live-tweet a 2024 adaptation of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. It’s Henry Ford-ism for the TikTok generation. Her comments earned her unqualified praise from white nationalists such as Nick Fuentes, because anti-Semitism is less an ideology than it is a mind-virus. The similarities between Ocasio-Cortez and Fuentes are far more pronounced than are their differences. The political coalition the two share is not terribly popular on a national level. But its amplification by likeminded media and loudmouthed activists is degrading to American politics and society.

[eretzyisrael]

If Jamaal Bowman loses his primary on Tuesday, and if other anti-Israel progressive candidates continue to struggle against more mainstream candidates, the Jewish community will be singled out as the reason. It will supposedly confirm all the left’s fears of Jewish voters and organizations.

Good.

Some eye-opening data is coming out of the Westchester and Bronx district over which Bowman and George Latimer are battling. Organizer Dan Mitzner “estimated that 700 volunteers are campaigning by canvassing neighborhoods, sending out text messages and emails, and making phone calls,” according to JTA. “Organizers said the group had made more than 17,000 phone calls and knocked on more than 5,000 doors.”

The success of this unprecedented get-out-the-Jewish-vote effort is undeniable: “As of June 17, it estimates that the Jewish community has accounted for more than 40% of all early votes in Westchester, despite making up 9% of eligible voters. At one synagogue, it says, 62% of members have already voted.”