I am so tired of the antisemitic indication that Jews must support Israel. My family fled the Tsarist pogroms. The concentration camps wiped out most of world Jewry. The lesson shouldn’t be Jewish ethnonationalism, the lesson should be to fight Pogromists and those who would
condemn whole peoples based on nothing but nationality or ethnicity. The tragedy of jewish history isn’t tragic because it happened to Jews, it’s tragic because it happened to anyone. And that means we must stand with anyone fighting the same oppression today
This has been the case with every democratic majority and supermajority and they’ve never done it. Don’t underestimate the democrats capacity to make excuses when there isn’t a mass movement to force change
Even if Roe is struck down, Congress could pass a law giving every American woman the right to choose. Just because the Supreme Court decides it's not a right found in the Constitution doesn't mean a law couldn't be passed enshrining it.
Left discourse being only about NJR + Hasan for the last few days is disheartening. One is entirely irrelevant and one is the firing of a few people at an incredibly soft left publication. Not saying it doesnt matter but NABISCO workers are striking which seems more important
I am so tired of performative “allyship” and “how to not be racist” posts with pastel colors from people who support the Democratic Party and it’s segregationist candidate. You’re not anti-racist supporting one of the parties of mass incarceration and imperialism.
@latkedelrey
Literally emailed my landlord today bc he’s been scheduling tours for 2 hour time frames with like no notice. I framed it as “I have a legal right to quiet enjoyment” and that can’t happen when there’s large time frames I don’t have free reign of the apt bc you might burst in
The fight to end AIDS is a fight against capitalism, conservatism, and their liberal enablers. There is no reason for AIDS to exist a generation from now except for the profit motive and the ideological bigotry that it props up
PrEP drugs "encourage and facilitate homosexual behavior," said Jonathan Mitchell, the former Texas solicitor general and author of the Texas abortion law, in a federal lawsuit targeting HIV antiviral medications.
@Ya1hor
It’s so cool how they have the same position on every issue without literally ever doing real investigation or even being open to the idea that context specific investigation might be needed before reaching conclusions
It is, as is the refusal to waive patents on HAART and all other life saving meds. Every AIDS death and AIDS transmission is a death or transmission directly caused by capitalism
DSA’s proposed platform is, politely, not good but probably the most glaring thing is how much being in the Democratic Party is at odds with their goals. You cant express solidarity with Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia etc while endorsing democrats who try and overthrow those gov’ts
Ukraine’s government was installed in a US-backed fascist coup in 2014 and the government is militarily held in check by fascist militias. Ukraine is not a democracy just because it is a US ally
I see people on the left I respect blaming the US for stoking another Cold War. Look, an undemocratic nation invading a democratic nation that has done nothing at all to threaten it is both wrong and dangerous. Put your skepticism aside long enough to acknowledge that.
Obviously good to see communists and others joining DSA bc of the new NPC, but it’s important to note this only happened bc other communists joined *while in a minority* and fought for their positions. Patient work and willingness to be in a democratic minority is key
i got asked why I’m a communist today, and without getting too technical, my family fled the Tsarist pogroms. the bolsheviks overthrew those people. and then the soviets liberated auschwitz. the communist movement has historically been great for jews and other oppressed peoples
Ezra Yachin, at 95, is the IDF's oldest reservist. He's been drafted into the reserves to boost morale by talking with soldiers. Despite enduring a tough childhood in Jerusalem marked by riots and unsettling scenes, he and his friends played a role in founding our great nation.
Please help a comrade of mine who needs emergency dental surgery. Karen is a Nigerian immigrant who does not receive the same universal care as canadian citizens, and recently lost most of her front teeth during a seizure.
any time i interact with the world it just hits me how much it does not have to be this way. our society could easily be so much more accessible and enjoyable
Idk enough about the Pfizer vaccine but Fauci scrutinized ‘the data™️’ so hard during the AIDS crisis that he let nearly 20,000 PWA die of PCP when there was a known prophylaxis, bc it hadn’t been studied specifically in people with damaged immune systems from AIDS
Dr. Anthony Fauci criticized UK regulators for the swift approval of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine, saying they did not scrutinize the data carefully enough
@ChadNotChud
I mean simply put the Zionists don’t care about the holocaust except insofar as it advances Zionism. They are disgusted by the appearance of “weak” Jews who they think didn’t resist. And they like ethnostates and the conquest of land and labor, which was Nazi policy.
78 years ago, Jewish socialists began the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in an attempt to stop transportations to the death camps. They knew that it was doomed to fail; they were greatly outnumbered, starved, and walled into a fascist ghetto. But they chose to fight anyway.
‘Tax the rich’:
@AOC
makes a statement with her dress, saying it’s time to bring all classes into the conversation of having a fair country. More from the
#MetGala
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The task of overthrowing Putin and the reactionary capitalist class in Russia is the task of Russian workers, not workers in a rival imperialist camp. For “socialists” in the US to cheer on sanctions and aggression against Russia is to side with our own capitalist class
@_pem_pem
I agree about both but I do think it’s important that we have outsized voice here bc Israel claims to be killing in our name. And to the second, our voice is important as a clear example that supporting Palestinian liberation is not antisemitic
Not saying it’s the biggest factor by any means, but I wonder what effect cuts on public education, leading to a hindered ability to indoctrinate students, had on my generations radicalization
@denver_mccomb
@rachelmillman
Her cat never celebrated the deaths of people with AIDS or claimed vaccines were made to kill the elederly, or promoted war etc etc
Liberals really just want their mind at ease more than they want to end exploitation and oppression. Just openly embracing and celebrating a segregationist who has promised “nothing would fundamentally change”
@queersocialism
I would like a lot more Lucille Ball hosting CPUSA and giving money and Danny Glover supporting unions and palestine and a lot less self-flagellation/privilege acknowledging
@w0kesolanas
My mom texted me saying this kid I grew up w was called up for the Israeli reserves and I was like….ok that’s on him if he answers the call!
Thinking about in college when my roommate (did not appear in great shape) said he could run a 6 minute mile at any time and then ran a 6:07 mile after eating a full dinner and 3 bowls of ice cream, and then proceeded to projectile vomit
@bjcolangelo
Have we considered that it’s bad when anyone has to deal with austerity and the lack of a social safety net? “People have it worse” isn’t a radical message. No one should have to go without necessary medicine. Everyone should have a job
@RoseFasa
I don’t know why it’s so hard for some on the left to realize you can be opposed to Zionism without wishing for the death of the Israeli working class. That tweet is disgusting
Denver police just did a sweep arresting several PSL members & anti-racist organizers in their homes and in pubic places. Holding them on phony charges. Emergency livestream at 5:00PST with details
@latkedelrey
Right! “Hey I might show up” isn’t adequate notice! And like, if they just said “hey here’s the big time frame, when we know more we’ll give you a more detailed heads up” that would be so much better bc you’d know you’re getting another email beforehand
If you are an abolitionist, if you oppose the racist US police, if you want an end to the white supremacist US police state, you have to stand with Palestine. An injury to one is an injury to all, the global struggle for liberation flows through Palestine
Fuck this. You’re not fighting for peace and human rights if you start hand wringing about the tactics of a liberation struggle. Peace and human rights don’t exist in the abstract, Israel has never once respected Palestinian national or human rights. But suddenly these human
Your Jewish friends are not doing ok right now. Even the ones who have spent years steeped in the conflict and who have been fighting for peace & human rights for all.
The epigenetic trauma of seeing Jews pulled from their homes, kidnapped, & killed — it’s real. 1/
@Ya1hor
Is this not the same person? I remember that awful speech though. It’s ridiculous how they try to shoehorn every single issue into Trotsky v. Stalin. Like it’s just an academic exercise to them at all times
Truly sickening watching American Jews pretend they’re victims over a genocide they’ve imagined, while the supposed Jewish state commits an actual real world genocide that nearly every synagogue, every large Jewish nonprofit, has been silent on. Makes me ashamed to be Jewish
antisemitism being taught as “opposition to specific jews and/or israel” and racism being taught as “disliking individual minorities”, in the absence of any larger structural analysis, is extremely bad and only helps the capitalist class pretend to care about these issues
It can never be said enough: tens of thousands of people with AIDS are dead or blind directly because of Fauci. Being disliked by Trump should not make us forget that.
@matthewfdesmond
@shlumpsters
Not really, read what Herzl wrote. He viewed the future Jewish state as “a rampart of Europe against Asia, an outpost of civilization as opposed to barbarism.” It’s a rejection of the ability of Jews to assimilate in Europe, not of Europe itself or European colonialism
@kthalps
For me it was general exposure to non-Zionist people, and particularly a professor who deeply cared about injustice who was also anti-Zionist. It forced me to try and figure out how/why someone could care so much and want Palestine to be free
I’m so fucking tired of the cynical appropriation of our history. Our past oppression does not make us currently oppressed. Our past genocide does not excuse Israel’s current genocide. The memories of the holocaust, of the pogroms, of life in the pale, mean never again FOR ANYONE
October 7, a sacred Jewish holiday, became the deadliest day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust.
It has brought to the surface painful memories and scars left by a millennia of antisemitism and genocide of the Jewish people.
Terrorists will not win. Freedom will win.
@SzMarsupial
@wokeimperialist
more importantly it’s also just fake and complete nonsense and what they call work is just sitting near a computer or boozing with colleagues
The Democratic Party removing Bernie from the ballot and cancelling the primary is further evidence that this is neither a democratic party or a party that workers and socialists belong in. It’s time for a socialist party based on the unions
This pandemic is genuinely terrifying and it should serve to illustrate the limitations of capitalism. The need for profit are trumping the need for public health. Years of austerity and exclusion from higher ed have created health systems completely incapable of handling this
Lot of ppl seem to think genocide is definitionally a past event, both in practice and in that we can only look afterwards and say something meets the criteria. Seems the argument is that genocide is only the complete annihilation of a people, or at least near complete.
@queersocialism
@ALissitzky
There’s also the idea at least in the humanities that you need to *produce* something, and the surface-level at best engagement with theory that’s standard before a paper leads to people arguing shit they don’t even believe in or agree with just to complete the assignment
@yslsalah
I think she’s wrong, and she’s being held up as a way to coerce people back into the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party is where social movements go to die
@Hezbolsonaro
Shockingly high number of law students at my school are vocally opposed to the genocide. Only 5 I know are vocally pro-Israel, with at least one gradually hoping for safety for everyone involved
If you are Jewish and talking about “standing with the Jewish community” right now you’re at best a selfish dipshit. Genocide is being perpetrated in our name, the world does not need more crocodile tears
TL;DR we should remember the very real legacy of Jewish resistance to the Holocaust and not see the state of israel as some post-Holocaust redemption, especially considering Zionism’s alliance with the nazis
It really should be required for any DSA-endorsed Congress person to stand in solidarity with cuba and vote to end the blockade. Really a basic internationalist position
The countless Jews in the red army and allied armies who fought out of a sense of duty to beat nazis. But instead it’s taught that Jews cowered, that we passively accepted our fates. That Jews were a meek people until the ‘liberation’ of israel saved us.
@RoKhanna
these weren’t blunders, they were deliberate choices that advanced the interests of US capital. painting it that way insinuates that coups *could* be good if done right, or that the intentions were pure but the execution was poor. we need to be honest about history of imperialism
@queersocialism
@ALissitzky
Like I wrote an entire paper about how Dr Jekyll Mr Hyde is about someone coming out of the closet just to see if I could and that’s such an unhealthy relationship to have to theory and knowledge. “Let me see if I can bullshit this real quick” is half the academy
Claiming everything is fascism makes it seem like normal capitalist democracy is good and not based on violent repression. This is just the nature of the state!
Marek Edelman, the only surviving commander of the Jewish combat organization, said that they wanted “to pick the time and place of our deaths.” This is the legacy of Jewish resistance to the Holocaust that should be remembered. People like Edelman and the Bundist who fought;
But this couldn’t be further from the truth. The Zionists not only didn’t lead any resistance to the nazis, but they actively collaborated with them. They negotiated the deaths of thousands of Jews as long as a few young, healthy ones would be sent to colonize palestine
#BREAKING
: Joe Biden speaks on Philadelphia unrest.
Reporter: "What do you say to Philadelphia residents that are outraged by yet another unarmed Black man being shot by police?"
Biden: "What I say is that there is no excuse whatsoever for the looting and the violence."
I am once again asking why anyone on the left should support a party that not only doesn’t want to abolish police, but wants to pay them more. Also this is patently untrue, police get paid lucratively
Law enforcement are often paid less than a living wage, and that is wrong.
We must raise pay for officers and address violent crime as we work to build community trust and foster law enforcement accountability.
The transfer agreement between the nazis and the zionists is repulsive, but it is not even the worst of it. During WW2, the Zionists left the European theatre to go fight the British in palestine, effectively allying *with* the nazis during the war.
AOC’s tweets about cuba are repulsive. DSA needs control and accountability over its representatives, and it needs to break with the Democratic Party. Anything less than that leads to support for imperialism and counter-revolution from its supposed representatives
@DumpsterRoaring
@yslsalah
I think it’s cooler how Angela davis is only brought up when it’s time to vote for the democrats but she’s ignored for prison abolition and anything else she’s argued for throughout her life. Also you do realize people can be wrong even though they say the word socialism?