DNC chair tweets from Islamophobic gathering in Florida

Donna Brazile, the interim head of the Democratic National Committee, yesterday tweeted the following.

O’Keefe, the rightwing provocateur, confirmed the meeting.

The two are attending a weekend conference at the Breakers in Palm Beach of the Islamophobic Freedom Center. It features rightwing intolerants, Mike Huckabee, Steve Bannon, Robert Spencer and Caroline Glick, the Israeli who denies the Nakba and the existence of Palestinian refugees.

 Islamophobic gathering
Islamophobic gathering

Many on Brazile’s twitter feed, including Annie Robbins, have pointed out the Freedom Center’s Islamophobic bona fides, and linked to this report on anti-Muslim extremists by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Scott Roth tweeted, “Maybe someone hacked Brazile’s Twitter? I can’t believe she’s so obtuse and reckless.”

David Horowitz is a strong supporter of Israel who has characterized campus activism against Israel as anti-Semitism and lately smeared Students for Justice in Palestine as aimed at the “elimination of the Jewish people,” a bald lie.

Brazile is right that these are interesting times. We are seeing a solidification of liberals and the left inside the Democratic Party in opposition to Trumpism. Yesterday in a surprising tactical shift, and nod to an inspiring American Muslim, Senator Chuck Schumer indicated that he was supporting Rep. Keith Ellison of Minnesota to take the position that Brazile is holding for the time being: chair of the Democratic National Committee. The New York Times said:

The move signals the desire of Mr. Schumer to score early points with Senators Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Bernie Sanders of Vermont, leaders from the party’s left.

Ellison is one of the few outspoken critics of Israel inside the Congress. He boycotted Netanyahu’s speech undermining the Iran deal in 2015, and he visited Gaza and bore witness in ’09.

If Ellison beats out Howard Dean and others for the spot, he would be assuming a a job with major fundraising responsibilities. He could kiss goodbye some of the major donors of the party for whom Israel is the be-all-and-end-all. But Democratic liberals see the writing on the wall. They know that in order to rebuild the party they will have to rely on a leftwing anti-racist movement that is definitely not copasetic with the Israel lobby. Brazile may be trying to hold these elements together, but the center cannot hold here. What will Schumer sacrifice in foreign policy to build power for Democrats in the U.S.? What will liberals in the media sacrifice in order to consolidate a leftleaning movement in the party? Imho they will have to sacrifice blind support for Israel.

Thx to Roth and Nancy Kricorian.

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“Maybe someone hacked Brazile’s Twitter? I can’t believe she’s so obtuse and reckless.”

If the Trump triumph 3 days ago didn’t show how obtuse and reckless she is, not to mention the whole team, it must be permanent blindness and deafness.

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sounds like Trump elect (a much different Trump than the Trump hopeful)
just might bring some much needed change to the world
an end to the so called peace talks makes sense
an end to America funding Israel would also make sense
Trump has already turned the unhealthy norm into a quivering mess just by being elected
pulling troops from invasions
looking to improve the ‘affordable’ health care plan breath new life into it rather than pull the plug
what would happen if Trump appointed a Dem. like Sanders to his team … f sec …
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G-d Bless
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The whole Clinton campaign seemed to me to reek of arrogance — we’re entitled — arrogance of Clinton to be the candidate even if it sank the party, arrogance of the political insiders and other “elites” who thought they understood matters so thoroughly that they had no need to ask or even to wonder why the Sanders phenomenon had happened. “Out of touch” with various realities is the name of the arrogant elite game. “Do it our way though the heavens fall, and with our eyes shut.”

So why not attend a conference with islamophobes, after all, Trump’s won and he seems to be an Islamophobe, must be OK, right? We “got with the program” before, and let’s keep doing it now.

If I were a political operative such a conference would interest me out of curiosity. I don’t think I’d tweet to mark my attendance.
Today clinton blamed her loss on the FBI. History won’t write it that way. (Moral: Don’t trust losers to explain their loss. As in bush pere blaming ykw, you know who.)

What will liberals in the media sacrifice” We know in the past…facts and truth,

Schumer getting behind Eliason is fascinating, If Eliason gets and accepts the position sure hope he talks with Howard Dean a great deal, Under Dean’s leadership role in the past Dems have done much better state wide, He knows how to build a solid state wide foundation

Will we ever know for sure if Brazille handed over those debate questions to the Clinton campaign?