The reason Israelis and its American loyalists are so horrified by the interview with @RoKhanna is because @jeremyscahill advocates hehre the most taboo idea of all taboos in DC:
That the same moral standards the US and Israel purport to impose on the world also apply to them.
Thus: if Israel had the right to attack and bomb the shit out of Palestinians due to October 7, then Palestinians had and have the right to attack Israelis (especially military bases and IDF soldiers) due to Israeli violence against them on Oct 6, Oct 5 and pretty much every day befoe that for the prior years.
NEW: In a since-deleted site for a prior campaign, Haley Stevens said the US relationship with Israel "must go unquestioned."
Hard to overstate what a radical stance this is. To her it's illegitimate for voters to even question US support for Israel.
https://t.co/JW7gHdVa0g
As I've been saying over and over again, once AIPAC and corporate PAC spending disappears in the general and the young voters stay at home because Stevens is a train wreck, we will lose in Michigan.
During the 2008 Democratic primary, Neera Tanden was credited with pioneering the Barack Obama "secret Muslim" smear and personally leaking the "Muslim garb" photos to Drudge, so it's not really a surprise she's fallen into old habits. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
No, the best part of this is that Jeremy Scahill is telling the truth about Palestinians having the right to armed resistance against their oppressors. You seem to think Israel has the right to murder Palestinians, and they just have to sit there and take it forever.
so unfortunately I’m…I put on Star Trek TNG…literally 90 seconds in I felt a wave of pure joy wash over me…my loser ass has been absolutely one-shot by this bullshit
a perfect example of why you can’t effect change thru the Dems. Ro Khanna is one of the most outspoken Dems on the issue and was held at gunpoint by settlers last week and he’s still so beholden to the party and thus Israel, he can’t even bring himself to call for full sanctions
Not even joking my local dem party has no gear for Haley Steven’s.
No yards signs, no stickers, no literature, no buttons, pencils or anything. She literally is relying solely on dark money politics to win her this election.
Michiganders, we deserve better. Vote for Abdul.
Reminder that Haley Stevens and Angie Craig both voted to sanction the ICC after it issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu. They work for Trump and Israel, not you
Guy who invented the Dahiya doctrine—a doctrine predicated on the destruction of civil infrastructure and mass civilian death—is being championed as a meaningful liberal break from Netanyahu. Theres 17 people left on earth who still buy this shit & 12 of them work at the Atlantic
Amazing admission from Matt Yglesias - politics shouldn't try to shift public opinion.
He fundamentally does not understand what politics is. This is why DNC politicians and media allies offer no political vision — they don't think you should have one!
Smiling over Black people being manipulated and lied to by a genocidal organization that wants to continue using our tax dollars for weapons to murder hundreds of thousands of people.
There is only one faction repeatedly threatening to split the org, and it’s Groundwork. That matters to me very much when I cast my ballots for delegates or leadership, bc I really do not think we should disband what is now the largest socialist org in US history.