President Donald Trump’s attempt to deport pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil marks one of Trump’s most egregious assaults on democratic liberties since taking office. Yet too many Democrats, particularly in party leadership, are responding to Trump in the most mealymouthed way possible. But this is a problem of Democrats’ own making: Their trepidation stems from their own history of repressing speech critical of Israel — and now we’re all at risk of paying the price for it.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Man…

    If only a large amount of dem voters had tried to warn people that Israel weren’t our friends before it was too late…

    How many people are still happy we didn’t hold Biden accountable when we could for violating US and international law to provide arms that would be used in a genocide?

    If we can’t protest when it’s a Dem doing it because it makes them look bad to voters, and we can’t protest when it’s a Republican because this will happen…

    How are we supposed to address the fact that Israel bought the leaders of both political parties long ago?

    The only way we can fix the country is fixing our own party first, and one of the big steps is voting out anyone that takes AIPAC money.

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      1 month ago

      so you don’t support terrorism or genocide, correct

      but you campaigned against the dems for arming the genocide

      you ended up with trump

      now you’re trying to blame the dems again

      i think you’re just terrorism supporters

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      1 month ago

      if it’s genociders vs terrorists which side is your party going to support?