But their city council got sick and tired of lunatic wing of the party.
After nearly a year of contentious public comment periods at Boulder City Council meetings — dominated by protesters demanding the council endorse a Gaza ceasefire resolution and increasingly marred by personal attacks, including antisemitic remarks directed at City Councilmember Tara Winer, who is Jewish — the mayor and several councilmembers took a stand during their Dec. 5 meeting. Earlier this year, the council voted 7 to 2 to abstain from initiating a process to create a Gaza ceasefire resolution.“This city council body has no role in international affairs,” Mayor Aaron Brockett said. “A ceasefire resolution has nothing to do with the business of the city. … This is not something that I’m changing my mind on,” he added, noting that he is “disturbed by some of the personal attacks that we’ve seen against other community members and individual city councilmembers.”Brockett specifically referenced a comment from a previous meeting where someone compared the city council to Adolf Eichmann, one of the chief engineers of the Holocaust. The mayor said he had previously stayed silent during public comment periods, hoping the issue would fade.Winer has been targeted by anti-Semitic remarks, including being called a “Jewish supremacist” during one meeting and receiving emails containing antisemitic slurs. People attending the Dec. 5 council meeting accused councilmembers of being “baby killers” and said they were “complicit in genocide.”
Last month, the Boulder campus of Colorado University was graffitied with "FUCK ISRAEL," "HAMAS IS RESSITANCE" and other slogans that the university termed antisemitic.
But perhaps this is part of the strategy.
When they do extreme stunts like these or blocking traffic or stopping a Thanksgiving Day parade, it may be that this gives them more room for the accusations of "genocide" and calling Hamas "resistance." People only have the ability to be outraged at a limited number of things; responding to every "river to the sea" chant has diminishing returns and that ends up making the lies and calls to ethnically cleanse Israel in the name of democracy sound more reasonable in contrast.
I don't think the haters are quite that organized, but the effect is the same. Normal people might get upset at their blatant antisemitism but there has still been very little headway into pointing out that it is all antisemitism.
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