@maggiejk The gerontocratic wing of the Dem party are very much on the wrong side of history on Israel/Palestine. It's an extension of their capture by deep-pocketed lobbyists. #aipac
"The Lobby – USA" is a four-part undercover investigation by Al Jazeera into Israel’s covert influence campaign in the United States. Most people have never seen it because AIPAC got it shut down, as they've tried to do to the documentary "Israelism"
So in the last 24 hours an international court has ordered Israel to stop doing a genocide in Gaza, and in response, the US, UK and Canada have cut off funding for United Nations humanitarian relief efforts in Gaza.
I called and left messages and emailed Senator Murray (D-WA) since the beginning of the genocide in Palestine, asking her to support a #ceasefire. She has been completely absent on providing a response to me and the thousands of her constituents who have demanded the same thing. She is usually quick to respond on any issue you would reach out on. Turns out when you accept over $680k from #AIPAC it is easy to deny Palestinian suffering.
Intercept: " After House Speaker Mike Johnson Pushed Through Israel Aid Package, AIPAC Cash Came Flowing In
The pro-Israel lobby donated around $95,000 to Johnson after he led the House passage of an extra $14 billion for Israel. "
The Israel lobby exerts incredible power and influence over America. Some identify only one organization, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), as “the lobby” citing its influence on Capitol Hill. This is wrong. Many interconnected organizations channel their power and influence through AIPAC in Congress.
You think you are angry at Biden and Israel? Aside from the Palestinians, who are likely annoyed that it took 76 years for us to clue in(I am guilty of this) imagine the members of AIPACs slime machine who know the gig is up?
You cant lock TWO ENTIRE GENERATIONS out of power and the news forever. The filth nihilionares who try to blacklist Harvard students for having souls have made them natural heroes
AIPAC is the most successful subversion organization in history and Bibi kicked it
It might not seem like AIPAC is over to you but the people inside have to realize they will likely ve charged with espionage and treason the instant the Vichy Dems like Harris, Biden and Warren are voted out.
I'll put this as simply as I can for all the apologists for tyranny: What #Hamas did was an awful atrocity, but it acts in 'self defence', not #Israel, as Zionists attacked #Palestinians in Dec. 1947 and began an #occupation; they have had no peace since.
It's actually heartbreaking, how the US has become.
The president has fear in his eyes. It's the look of someone who's completely in over his head. And yet the oligarchs cheer him on, while he supports a genocide.
Fewer and fewer hard right Zionists are attacking me here on Mastodon. The truth is not on their side. And the Democratic party is finally coming around and realizing that their base is not the same as it was in 1990 nor 2002. The Democratic base has changed.
There was a time when #AIPAC really was a non-partisan #Israel advocacy group, and accusations that it was inappropriately involved in US politics really were antisemitic.
That time is over. AIPAC is now unabashedly right-wing and actively contributing to the deterioration of American democracy.
Unfortunately, many American Jewish institutions haven't figured that out, or have but are too cowardly to disavow AIPAC, or the worst possibility of all, they support what it's doing.