@acrunksquirrel@CoreyWriting@MattBruenig This underrated Torres' strengths. His local offices are very engaged, and he hasn't made Israel his entire personality. It wasn't an animating issue for Black voters in his district.
@RSuzanne5@HappyCenter3@samueljrob So he doesn't care if taxpayer money goes to foreign countries as long as they're not committing crimes? Isn't that money better spent on his community?
@mahmoudkhalel The PLO was trash because they were diaspora.
Erakat's negotiators were trash because they were well-pedigreed putz from the diaspora.
Palestinian diaspora politics is about burning stuff down at the expense of practical politics and Palestinians on the ground.
@JonathanKadmon@PostLeftWatch Substitute "Israelis" for "Palestinians" and imagine if Ben-Gvir had said this while citing Palestinian support for Hamas and October 7.
People defending Susan are part of the problem. She's an extremist and has been for years.
@JonathanKadmon@PostLeftWatch Individual Jews, like individuals from many backgrounds? Sure. But turning that into a collective ethnic accusation is exactly the kind of antisemitic myth historians have spent decades debunking. Susan is an antisemite who is just as bad as Israelis like Ben-Gvir.
@JonathanKadmon@DavidBradley34@PostLeftWatch You give her too much credit. She's referred to Israelis as "cockroaches" and "vermin." She's one of those people who doesn't care about peace and believes only in a blood-and-soil nationalism for the *other* side.
@NathanJRobinson It's just so tiresome. Imagine someone saying this about Hitler, "Hitler had some excesses", and pretending like it was meaningful criticism.
@souljagoyteller I could tolerate it as an aesthetic choice if he didn't also argue that Mao was a great positive historical force rather than one of the most insane bloodthirsty dictators with an astonishing record of death
@TylerDinucci This isn't ideal, but it's still 100 people. You could find thousands of Palestinians who express support for Hamas. Would you ever say parts of Palestinian society are "fundamentally broken"?
@TylerDinucci Yes, but acting like the radicalization happened spontaneously is telling an incomplete story. Many Israelis were shaped by the Second Intifada and October 7.
@MacGlandieres@arash_tehran If anti-Zionists want to increase Israeli support for a binational state, they might do well not to rationalize terrorism against Israelis.
@MacGlandieres@arash_tehran Rima defended October 7 and downplayed Hamas savagery. That alone is enough to discount whenever else she might say. She is fundamentally compromised by her inability to call out terror.
@_alialkhatib@HBendaas Yes, because as we all know, the volume of boos at a state primary is a completely accurate indicator of how well someone will perform statewide.
Someone is being a disingenuous turd here but it isn't Matt.
@_alialkhatib@HBendaas How is that "interesting"? You talk about your "contemporaneous notes" as if that's a reasonable substitute for data.
Slotkin would still win. Stephens pulling ahead of AES in polling is further evidence that the Gaza-first wing is not a majority.