Last year, progressive member of Congress Jamaal Bowman visited Israel. This raised the ire of the Democratic Socialists of America, which slammed him for violating the BDS principles of not recognizing Israel in any way.
At the time, the National Political Committee of the DSA said that their highest priority was to ensure that Bowman follows their anti-Israel agenda completely. They considered expelling him from the group, but in the end they decided to keep him.
Apparently, there was a quid pro quo involved.
Yesterday, Bowman withdrew his support for a bill that supports the Abraham Accords. The DSA took credit for this. Sydney Azari, of the DSA's National Political Committee, tweeted that "This was one of the conditions the @DemSocialists NPC set during our discussion with Bowman."
Bowman claims that he made the decision based on what he "learned" during his trip to Israel in November bit the DSA is saying that they insisted on this to allow him to remain a member.
The "progressives" bullied a Black man to toe their line if he wants to stay on their good side.
This is not the only case where people and groups who are already anti-Israel have been bullied lately to ensure that they never say anything remotely supportive of the existence of Israel.
Rabid Israel hater Mairav Zonszein tweeted, "Israel was not founded as a Jewish ethno-national state in order to dance on Palestinian suffering, but that is in fact what it does consistently."
This is hardly a pro-Israel statement, but saying that Israel was not intended from the outset to be genocidal was too much for some, who slammed Zonszein.
Comments included:
This is the face of liberal Judaism. She denies the genocide and ethnic cleansing done by her liberal Jewish ancestors in the 30s and 40s, and again in 67. Even golda meir was a leftist.This would be akin to saying the United States wasn’t founded as a white supremacist slave state hellbent on expansion through genocide into Indigenous land, but rather that it just stumbled into being that and started doing it consistently.I have some moots who follow this Zionist. Please unfollow.In case you missed it, Mairav Zonszein is a Nakba denier and you probably shouldn't be following her.Why do I have 11 mutual with this dumbass z*onist bitch for ?????I have 86 mutuals with this degenerate. Fix that please.
Starting off any sentence with “Israel was not founded as a Jewish ethno-national state in order to dance on Palestinian suffering” demonstrates how not to be an ally to Palestinians. Exonerating Zionism has no place in showing solidarity with Palestinians. Reassess.
Mairav, of course, caved to toe the line of the rabid antisemites and apologized:
Just as she did when she said Roger Waters crossed the line into antisemitism, deleting her tweet after the new Nazis bullied her into submission.
She's so brave!
Another example from just this week: after scores of tweets and reports and videos that considered the very concept of a Jewish state to be a crime against humanity, Amnesty International tweeted very specific and limited praise for Israel:
GOOD NEWS 🏳️🌈Israel has become the 27th country to ban the cruel and destructive practice of ‘conversion therapy'. Other governments must follow suit - nobody needs converting.
I don't know if this waa fig leaf for Amnesty to claim that it is objective about Israel or if the tweet originated in a different Amnesty division that has not been infected with rabid antisemitism. Either way, the new Nazis immediately started bashing Amnesty, their most prominent ally, because it said something nice about Israel.
JVP bizarrely accused Amnesty of "pinkwashing" Israel.
All of this is intended to ensure that Israel is treated as a pariah, and anyone who adds any subtlety or tries to inject facts in the discussion is immediately discarded as another Zionist, which is the worst insult possible.
The word "Zionist" is indistinguishable from how the word "Jew" has been used throughout history by people equally filled with hate.
