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The guy in the rain parka is Raul Rivera, who BIT a female Zohran volunteer last year. Both of these men are unhinged and should not be allowed to be around any political events.
Shame on @RepEspaillat for inviting the support of these men who abuse women. Shame.
This is the kind of harassment @DarializaforNY is experiencing on a daily basis.
It’s so clear that Espaillat is afraid of the movement Darializa is building and is resorting to sending people in an attempt to silence and harass her.
NEW: In MD05, the powerful Prince George's country executive is switching sides to try to block "AIPAC Adrian" Boafo, an Oraclo lobbyist, from winning a House seat.
AIPAC and crypto have spent $12 million backing him. She's now supporting Quincy Bareebe https://t.co/4eyMBg9oz9
“What if he said Jews?!?”
He didn’t. You are.
It’s you who is relying on an antisemitic canard to conflate AIPAC and Jewish Americans.
It’s you who is trying to tie us all to AIPAC’s pro-war, racist and antidemocratic agenda.
It’s you who is further endangering our community.
New York mayor Mamdani highlights the ongoing U.S.-backed Israeli killings in Gaza of civilians and journalists, despite a nominal ceasefire. He said AIPAC seeks to maintain a “status quo of immorality” in the region.
New York State Senate candidate Aber Kawas on the erosion of “progressive except Palestine”: “That’s something that socialist candidates represent at this moment on a national level: that step forward beyond ‘progressivism’ to acknowledge the international.” https://t.co/LkKcirJLor
Reporter: Some members of the Jewish community, including Democratic Congressman Josh Gottheimer, were alarmed by the language you used at the rally last week, calling AIPAC monsters who move dark money.
Mamdani: I want to be very clear. We’re talking about a status quo where children are being killed on a daily basis. More than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli military since the so-called ceasefire.
Even an Al Jazeera journalist, Ahmed Wishah, was killed this past Saturday by an Israeli strike. And when I am speaking about AIPAC, I’m speaking about an organization that has been supportive of the status quo, that has fought any attempt to actually deliver safety to people not just in Palestine but, frankly, throughout much of the region.
And it is a status quo of immorality. It is one that I will not accept. And when it comes to the way in which they defend the status quo, oftentimes they defend it through direct contributions, as we are seeing right now in New York 13.
Oftentimes they also support the status quo through dark money, by funneling money that would have previously come directly from AIPAC through other organizations whose contributors’ identities are only made clear after an election.
And I think it is important that when we ask ourselves how such death and destruction is happening overseas, we also name those who allow it to take place.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz went on national television recently to bash any potential end to the conflict with Iran. She was worried we might actually move toward peace. At the same time, she’s been one of the most reliable votes in Congress for blank-check weapons shipments to Israel, no questions asked, and with no conditions. She’s collected close to $1.5 million from AIPAC.
She voted to censure the only Palestinian-American member of Congress. She opposed efforts to get more medical aid and food into Gaza. This pattern is clear: Debbie doesn’t want peace or diplomacy. She wants permanent conflict that keeps the military-industrial complex and her donors happy. FL-20 deserves so much better than this.
#NY10 update: campaign finance filings confirm "New Yorkers Fighting Back" is a shell PAC for Democratic Majority for Israel (DMFI).
Rep. Dan Goldman's Israel lobby total is closing in on $1 million.
Over 130 people were killed and more than 200 wounded in Israeli attacks on Lebanon on Friday and Saturday, despite a U.S.-brokered MOU that committed Israel to halting hostilities on all fronts, including Lebanon.
Israel struck more than 300 locations across Lebanon in those two days.
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