דער קערפער פֿון השםI don't go in for all the Mamdani bashing, and I think AIPAC's politics suck, but the left's fixation on demonizing AIPAC above all other lobbying groups, many quite a bit more powerful, gets a side-eye from me.
"#NewYorkCity #Mayor #ZohranMamdani on Monday defended his use of the word “monsters” to describe #AIPAC at a rally on Friday for #progressive candidates, as some of his #Jewish supporters expressed concern that the term may connote an #antisemitic trope.
The war of words came as the American Israel Public Affairs Committee is increasingly a target of the progressive movement, including in acts of attempted violence, and as progressive #Jews have accused some Israeli right-wing figures of dehumanizing liberal pro-Israel lobbying groups.
“Calling AIPAC and its backers ‘monsters’ casts them as less than human, rather than as human beings who are one’s political opponents,” #Rabbi #JillJacobs, head of the progressive #rabbinic #humanrights group #Truah[...]"
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Chuck Darwin
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