Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wasn’t exactly clear about her position on Israel/Palestine during a live streamed conversation with the head of the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York.
Progressive lawmakers are calling on the Biden administration to ditch Trump’s Israel policies
This year has been a slog, but from the Squad to BDS victories there have also been things to celebrate in 2020.
As expected, every member of The Squad was easily reelected. And this time they will be joined by even more left-leaning lawmakers.
While the focus remains largely on the presidential election, November brings with it hundreds of local and state races that are equally consequential, and show the rising power of the Palestine movement.
Americans Muslims for Palestine is calling on Keith Ellison to drop out of an event honoring Yitzhak Rabin. “We do not understand Mr. Ellison’s rationale to be speaking at an event that’s honoring a war criminal,” says AMP Regional Director Shakeel Syed.
Michael Arria is on vacation this week, and Phil Weiss is filling in on trendspotting.…
Bari Weiss says antisemites convinced Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to back out of a Rabin memorial. AOC actually was concerned with Rabin’s human rights record. But she and her supporters now join the “three-headed dragon of modern anti-Semitism” living in Bari Weiss’s imagination. And in Weiss’s perspective of sacred Jewish victimhood, defamation and dishonesty are no vice when fighting the enemies of the Jews.
The lack of moral consistency from pro-Israel groups is hardly surprising, but you rarely see such a nice distillation within the span of just a few days.
Even now, 25 years after the assassination, the majority of the Israeli center and left cannot divest itself of the Oslo Accords and of the chimera of a two-states solution. They are, after all, sacred. They are what Oseh Shalom Bimromaiv planned. Any attempts to deviate from it is denying scripture. And so the devotees of Oslo and Rabin become the equivalent of monks, dead to the world and singing the sacred hymns. The divine plan has long lost any connection to reality, but anyone challenging it quickly becomes anathema.