Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I've liked a lot about Bowman - not all but a lot - in his short tenure, but he really blew this race. I know a few Democratic/progressive activists who are also Jewish who offered advice - the meetings were good but not much walk after the talk. These are folks who are really not fans of AIPAC. Clearly Bowman couldn't make the distinctions.
AIPAC should have stayed out of this race. Bowman was set to lose anyway. Next, Cori Bush. And I'm progressive.
So a Jewish advocacy group should just stay out of a race where one of the candidates is an open and unapologetic antisemite who has literally denied Hamas’ campaign of sexual violence, celebrated October 7th, and called for the genocide of Jews through an Israeli unconditional surrender?
I’m sorry, but Jews will NEVER just sit back and let genocide play out. We learned that after the Holocaust. Have you? Have you promised to never let it happen ever again? Because we did.
And one of the actions we took was to establish AIPAC to fight against antisemitism and genocide in the United States, recognizing how close the US could get to Nazi Germany real quick. And here we are, with AIPAC being attacked mercilessly for defending themselves against an openly pro-genocide government official. Who would have guessed it?