#AIPAC is the lobby group "American Israel Public Affairs Committee". It is set to spend $100 Million against the [US #DemocraticParty] #Squad.
"The war in Gaza has set the stage for a huge primary battle in 2024": https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/11/squad-primary-battle-israel-gaza-pacs.html
#AmericanIsrael #StandWithIsrael #zionism #warOnPalestine #israelGaza #israelGazaWar #israelPalestineWar #USA
Alex Sammon:
"In the 2022 midterms, the Israel lobby became the largest single-issue outside spender in Democratic primaries, pouring in nearly $30 million via the super PAC the United Democracy Project, and millions more via the Democratic Majority for Israel PAC. It was an astronomical amount of money, mostly directed at knocking progressives out of the primaries, largely in open and redrawn seats."
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/11/squad-primary-battle-israel-gaza-pacs.html
#USPol #DemocraticPrimaries #AIPAC #antiBlackness #BlackMastodon
Alex Sammon wrote that Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley, Cori Bush, Jamaal Bowman, and Summer Lee—"the most outspoken and unapologetically leftist contingent of the Democratic Party in national office"—are among #AIPAC top targets.
"That AIPAC feels the need to spend this much money at all could well be taken as a sign of weakness, not strength."
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/11/squad-primary-battle-israel-gaza-pacs.html
#zionism #israelGaza #israelGazaWar #israelPalestineWar #USPol #AOC #BlackMastodon
#politicalAds:
“Every Republican voted to stand with Israel. Every Republican except for one: Kentucky’s Tom Massie. On Israel, Tom Massie votes with #AOC, Tlaib and Omar over and over,” declares one 30-second video ad, referring to Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Ilham Omar (D-MN). “It’s a disgrace. Call Tom Massie. Tell him it’s time to #StandWithIsrael.”
#USPol #Congress #AIPAC #zionism #coloniality #proZionism #JewishState #support
Nicole Narea, "a first-generation American", wrote: All three [university] presidents refused to say that students should be punished for invoking those [hateful] phrases across the board — only when it rises to the level of harassment, discrimination, or incitement to violence.
“I have little doubt that if student activists actually were issuing unequivocal calls for the genocide of Jews on university campuses, they would be swiftly disciplined by their administrations — and rightly so,” Berkman said. “This should have been an easy question for Magill, Kornbluth, and Gay to answer, but because they felt they couldn’t contest the description of pro-Palestinian rhetoric as inherently genocidal, despite knowing that description to be untrue, they ended up looking foolish.”
Internal discord at elite institutions and bipartisan doubt about the sanctity of higher education was the outcome that Stefanik and her Republican colleagues wanted — but not because they’re any great defenders of Jews.
#Stefanik has echoed the antisemitic “great replacement” theory that Jews have pushed immigration and multiculturalism as a means of amassing political power over white Americans: In a 2021 campaign ad, she railed against what she characterized as Democrats’ plan to “overthrow our current electorate” by allowing undocumented immigrants to enter the country, leading to accusations of antisemitism.
(15 Dec 2023) https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/12/15/24001823/antisemitism-college-harvard-penn-mit-free-speech @supremacy
#freeSpeech #equation #conflation #confusion #StandWithIsrael #policing #respectability #coloniality #proZionism #JewishState #support #USPol #campuses #philoSemitism #academicFreedom #israelism #Congress #education
11 months earlier, there was no campaign to remove a white male University President on #plagiarism: https://social.coop/@eric/109893277642535577
"For this campaign to work, they needed mainstream media to support them. And the media obliged. All in all, it has been a very successful couple of weeks for bad-faith attacks on higher education. In just 10 days, the New York Times published 13 pieces about the President of one university in the aftermath of both the hearings and the plagiarism allegations.
"Is that a lot? To provide a comparison, we would need a benchmark of a university president accused of academic misconduct at a very prestigious institution. As it turns out, Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne faced more serious accusations of academic misconduct involving data manipulation. A formal investigation was announced in November of 2022, and he was forced to resign in July of 2023. So, how many articles did the Times write about the topic prior to his resignation? Zero. And zero is probably the right number, because this is not national news until an actual resignation. But that is not the standard being applied to Gay, because the campaign is not about academic misconduct."
Don Moynihan (22 Dec 2023) https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-campaign-to-remove-the-president
#freeSpeech #dei #academicChatter #academicFreedom #campuses #misconduct #antisemitism #racism #Stanford #IvyLeague #MIT #Harvard #media #Penn #NYT #whiteSupremacy #USPol #education #commOdon #rightWing #Republicans #liberals #USA
"In 2009, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, then a top executive at the biotechnology company #Genentech, was the primary author of a #scientific paper published in the prestigious journal Nature that claimed to have found the potential cause for brain degeneration in #Alzheimer’s patients. […] Neither a correction nor a retraction was issued, and the paper stands to this day." Impressive investigation by #TheoBaker: https://stanforddaily.com/2023/02/17/internal-review-found-falsified-data-in-stanford-presidents-alzheimers-research-colleagues-allege/ #medicines #authorship #science #historyOfScience #ethics 🧶
Mehdi Hasan, an MSNBC host, wrote about Bill #Ackman’s campaign against #Harvard:
“This is what happens when liberal universities roll over for rightwing, bad-faith bullies. It’s what happens when anyone anywhere rolls over to try and appease a bully. They don’t get appeased. They just come back for more.”
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/jan/03/bill-ackman-billionaire-attacks-claudine-gay-harvard-twitter-x @supremacy 🧵
#freeSpeech #dei #academicFreedom #antisemitism #racism #bullying #negrophobia #whiteSupremacy #USPol #higherEducation #rightWing #Republicans #liberals
"It should not surprise any of us that the same people who refuse to call for a ceasefire in Gaza and who support the genocide of Palestinians are the same people who would threaten the safety of a Black woman. All of these actions are motivated by racism. Zionism, just like anti-Black racism, is a product of white supremacy. They motivate and reinforce each other."
https://mondoweiss.net/2024/01/on-white-supremacy-and-zionism-a-reflection-on-claudine-gays-tenure-as-president-of-harvard-university/
#Harvard #ClaudineGay #whiteSupremacy #misogynoir #higherEducation #rightWing #antisemitism #BlackMastodon
Anti-Black racism and Zionism are two cornerstones of Harvard’s flawed foundation. We should mourn Claudine Gay’s tenure at Harvard because she was both a victim and an agent of white supremacy.
"Dr. Gay was blamed for not fixing problems that were deeply-rooted in the organization […] long before her first day on the job. Moreover, as she struggled to manage the crisis that engulfed her, the broader institution did not provide her with the right resources or give her the leeway to act boldly in defense of herself. In short, Dr. Gay was left all alone to fight off the most vicious attacks against her credentials and personhood."
Those points above are so key.
I'm a Black nonprofit exec and recruiters call me all the time, looking for candidates to lead legacy white-led orgs.
And I ask questions about the points above:
- What are the internal problems the org is trying to solve and how long have they lasted?
- What support is the organization's governing body going to provide the new leader to help ensure her success?
- What are the expectations around change and how long it takes (and do they know what is required)?
- Are they ready for this change? Like, for real. If they say the're ready, show me the receipts.
It's funny how no one calls back after I ask those questions.
Black leadership always comes with a target. The older I get, the less willing I am to be target practice so I can be a First Black Whatever.
"The strategy of building a faction both inside and outside the party is responding to the laws of gravity of our political system, but it’s becoming a lot harder, especially electorally, and especially because of this massive amount of spending from AIPAC, from cryptocurrency, and so on. When your candidate is unknown, elections are often built around how much money you can raise to increase your name recognition and to defend yourself from attacks."
"The youth wing of the ceasefire moment is pretty opposed to, or ambivalent about, party politics and electoral politics, and is much more focused on mobilization and disruption in a way that is similar to Occupy Wall Street."
"My hypothesis is that Muslim partisan loyalty to the Democratic Party is much thinner than it is with Jewish Americans, who are part of the Democratic Party for many reasons that have nothing to do with Israel – liberal and democratic values, social justice values.
• Over the years, polls have shown that Jewish voters generally do not list Israel among their top five issues.
• Many Muslims are part of the Democratic Party for its anti-racist values, so when the Gaza war is in contradiction with those values, it’s easy for them to leave."
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/uncommitted-biden-harris-primary/ @palestine
#VoteBlue #TheSquad #DNC #DemocraticParty #WaleedShahid #PresidentialRace #PresidentialElections #USA #US #proZionism #israelGaza #israelGazaWar #israelPalestineWar #USPol #AOC #AIPAC #Omar #Tlaib #Dissent #CeasefireNow
"Despite broad popular support for legislation to curtail police violence, Congress got nothing done. Democrats, despite controlling both the House and Senate in 2021 and 2022, slow-walked the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, insisting on bipartisan support that never materialized."
"Both #BLM activists voted into Congress have been pushed out."
"Bowman and Bush have been routed out of Congress, thanks to a historic deluge of big-money spending against them. They battled challengers in the most and third-most-expensive congressional primaries in American history, respectively, and each was outspent roughly 4–1."
#Democrats #VoteBlue #TheSquad #Congress #DemocraticParty #USA #US #proZionism #Zionism #israelGaza #USPol #AOC #AIPAC #Omar #Tlaib #crypto #cryptoCurrency #CoriBush #JamaalBowman #primaries #DemocraticPrimaries #policeViolence #BlackCaucus #BCC #CBC #BlackMastodon #DefundThePolice
I dont agree but the votes dont lie
Daniel Levy: "As the movement for Palestinian rights has built up one kind of popular power, pro-Israel forces have doubled down on financial power. The Democratic Party could have said they will not allow independent expenditure campaigns, because they are a travesty and a disgrace to democracy, but they didn’t — and so they have enabled those pro-Israel forces."
https://www.972mag.com/daniel-levy-us-israel-gaza-democrats/
#foreignPolicy #Democrats #DemocraticParty #DNC #USPol #USPolitics #AIPAC #AxisOfResistance #VoteBlue #TheSquad #Congress #USA #US #proZionism #israelGaza #CoriBush #JamaalBowman #primaries #DemocraticPrimaries #PalestinianLivesMatter #DanielLevy
Waleed Shahid talked in June 2024 about US politics
"The strategy of building a faction both inside and outside the party is responding to the laws of gravity of our political system, but it’s becoming a lot harder, especially electorally, and especially because of this massive amount of spending from AIPAC, from cryptocurrency, and so on. When your candidate is unknown, elections are often built around how much money you can raise to increase your name recognition and to defend yourself from attacks."
"The youth wing of the ceasefire moment is pretty opposed to, or ambivalent about, party politics and electoral politics, and is much more focused on mobilization and disruption in a way that is similar to Occupy Wall Street."
"My hypothesis is that Muslim partisan loyalty to the Democratic Party is much thinner than it is with Jewish Americans, who are part of the Democratic Party for many reasons that have nothing to do with Israel – liberal and democratic values, social justice values.
• Over the years, polls have shown that Jewish voters generally do not list Israel among their top five issues.
• Many Muslims are part of the Democratic Party for its anti-racist values, so when the Gaza war is in contradiction with those values, it’s easy for them to leave."
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/uncommitted-biden-harris-primary/
#VoteBlue #TheSquad #DNC #DemocraticParty #WaleedShahid #PresidentialRace #PresidentialElections #USA #US #USPolitics #USPol #Uncommitted
#Uncommitted movement activists and delegates are speaking out to criticize movement leaders for prioritizing party loyalty and media optics over confronting the #DemocraticParty
by Saleema Gul: https://mondoweiss.net/2024/10/inside-the-uncommitted-movements-failure-to-move-the-democratic-party-on-the-gaza-genocide/
#proZionism #DNC #WaleedShahid #PresidentialRace #PresidentialElections #USA #US #USPolitics #USPol #StandWithIsrael #AIPAC #zionism #coloniality #money #USMedia #media #Mondoweiss #establishment
´For example, in 2008, the Arms Export Control Act was amended to require that the President ensure that Israel is sufficiently equipped “to counter and defeat any credible conventional military threat from any individual state or possible coalition of states or from non-state actors.”
´That law means that Israel must always have a “qualitative military edge (QME)” over all the Middle East countries put together and that any American aid or arms sales to other countries in the region cannot bring Israel’s QME under that level.´
https://mitchellplitnick.substack.com/p/the-limits-of-the-israel-lobby?triedRedirect=true @israel 🧵
Daniel L. Davis is a retired United States Army officer. He was one of the earliest military officers to publicly criticize the War in Afghanistan.
Davis is a Senior Fellow at Defense Priorities, a Foundation of the Koch brothers.
Davis was selected by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard for appointment as deputy director. On Wednesday, the Jewish Insider magazine ran a story against Davis ; neoconservative radio jock Mark Levin helped spread the Jewish Insider story to his 4.9 million followers; within hours, Davis was informed there would be no job.
https://thecradle.co/articles/gabbard-withdraws-war-critic-from-top-intel-job-following-smear-campaign-by-pro-israel-groups 🧵
#Koch #isolationism #foreignPolicy #USWars #israelLobby #Gabbard #StandWithIsrael #proZionism #ADL #USPol #USPolitics #JewishInsider #NationalIntelligence #DNI #administration
'At its 2025 convention, the DSA voted to support Palestinian resistance, […] affirming the right of return, Jerusalem as the capital. […] The resolution also declared that endorsing Zionist positions such as “Israel has a right to defend itself” could be an expellable offense. Delegates also passed a resolution titled “Labor for an Arms Embargo” with over 80 percent support.
'At the same time, the convention showed an organization pulled in two directions — responding to the shifts in consciousness around Palestinian liberation, yet being tethered to a strategy that operates within the limits set by the Democratic Party. For instance, the convention voted down a resolution for a single secular Palestinian state, and turned away from formal alignment with BDS — positions that would have placed DSA too openly against the politics of the Democratic Party. Yet in contradiction, they also passed new rules requiring candidates to support BDS and cut ties with Zionist lobbies — an uneasy compromise that captures both the break and its limits.'
Maryam Alaniz: https://www.leftvoice.org/the-dsa-voted-against-zionism-but-will-it-break-from-the-democrats/
#TheSquad #DSA #antiImperialism #antiZionism #USA #US #USPolitics #USPol #establishment #DemocraticParty #Mamdani #Bowman #BDS #LeftVoice #classStruggle #socialism #NYC #AOC #USLeft #leftists #socialists #Tlaib #RashidaTlaib #DemocraticPrimaries #resolutions #Democrats
At its 2025 convention, the DSA voted to support Palestinian resistance — a historic step. But as long as it remains tied to the Democratic Party, the party of genocide and repression, that vote will be contained.
errr.... whatever. The HUGE BOULDER to push up the hill that is fascist 'Murrica is getting elected
This micro naval gazing is totally pointless
Their financial power depends on maintaining the strength of the petro-dollar currently under increasing pressure.
Which is what the build up with Iran is all about.
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