Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has lost the previous endorsement of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), because they think she has failed to be as critical of Israel as they desire.
This speaks volumes about where the hard left is on this issue. When a member of the ‘squad’ is too pro-Israel for your taste, maybe you’re the problem.
From DSA’s statement:
On Sunday, June 23rd, the DSA National Political Committee (NPC) voted to endorse Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) so long as she fulfills the following conditions:
- Publicly opposes all funding to Israel, including the Iron Dome
- Participates regularly in the DSA Federal Socialists in Office Committee
- Publicly opposes all criminalization of Anti-Zionism, such as bills advancing the IHRA definition which conflates criticism of Israel with anti-semitism
- Publicly supports BDS (Boycott, Divest, and Sanction) to end Israeli settler-colonialism
This initial endorsement request was considered upon request of New York City DSA’s Steering Committee (NYC-DSA SC). Earlier this week, the NPC received a request from NYC-DSA SC to withdraw the endorsement because it took place after the New York Democratic Primary and they did not expect a conditional endorsement or feel it was strategic. Because we have not seen evidence of AOC meeting these conditions, and at the request of the NYC-DSA SC, the NPC is withdrawing our conditional endorsement of Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, although she will remain endorsed by our New York City chapter.
The editorial board of the New York Post is unimpressed:
AOC un-endorsement exposes Democratic Socialists’ ugly antisemitismTalk about a mask-off moment.On Wednesday, the Democratic Socialists of America yanked their endorsement of progressive darling Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, bestowed just a week prior, for the sin of . . . acknowledging the reality of antisemitism within the pro-Palestine movement.The DSA’s national apparatus had tentatively given the endorsement June 23, on the condition that AOC completely toe the group’s line on Israel, which apparently means staying dead silent on the issue of rampant leftist Jew-hate.The group listed several supposed indiscretions in their indictment of AOC, including her vote affirming the Jewish state’s right to exist last year and a statement in April that supported “strengthening the Iron Dome and other defense systems.”But those stances were on the record before the DSA endorsed.It seems the final straw, the position that the Democratic Socialists just couldn’t tolerate, was learning that AOC had hosted a June 10 roundtable on antisemitism with the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, during which (the DSA claims) she “conflated anti-Zionism with antisemitism and condemned boycotting Zionist institutions.”
AOC is not alone in this. The Israel-hating left is even going after Bernie Sanders.
Who’s next? Rashida Tlaib?
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