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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAnti-Israel protesters block the main entrance at the WTC in NYC: "Genocide Joe Has Got to Go"
And it looks like the Putin-chaos agent-useful idiot coalition is going to try for a repeat of the 2016 general election.==============================

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brer cat
(27,327 posts)persuade anyone to join their side. Just sowing crap to create chaos.
Takket
(23,434 posts)EllieBC
(3,602 posts)Because they are dumb trash.
Oneironaut
(6,195 posts)Cha
(316,457 posts)You Stupid Gaslit Assholes 🤢😈🤬
JI7
(93,116 posts)reymega life
(675 posts)Hekate
(100,131 posts)The Magistrate
(96,043 posts)Its anachronistic incoherence amuses, but not for long.
Hekate
(100,131 posts)The Magistrate
(96,043 posts)And now it's Beelzebub's bedtime....
Best of the coming year to you!
Hekate
(100,131 posts)RandySF
(80,869 posts)TheKentuckian
(26,314 posts)Bringing us together?
You really consider that to be a within James Webb Telescope range of a sane or even just not an utterly wicked approach even if somehow one twists themselves into buying such intent?
ismnotwasm
(42,663 posts)Assholes
LexVegas
(6,949 posts)SocialDemocrat61
(6,664 posts)Are they aware Biden is President of the United States, not President of Israel?
LeftInTX
(34,013 posts)scipan
(2,971 posts)See the upper right of the poster. I've seen ANSWER before (an umbrella org) and CAIR is Council for American Islamic Relations.
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paleotn
(21,427 posts)EllieBC
(3,602 posts)And I dont think they are as progressive as anyone has wanted to think.
paleotn
(21,427 posts)chouchou
(2,743 posts)tritsofme
(19,766 posts)Hekate
(100,131 posts)dalton99a
(91,859 posts)FlyingPiggy
(3,748 posts)Behind the Aegis
(55,891 posts)....seems it isn't really a "pro-Palestine" rally or even an anti-Israel rally.
EllieBC
(3,602 posts)A celebration of a terrorist attack. A celebration and support march for terrorist organizations.
SoFlaBro
(3,730 posts)The Magistrate
(96,043 posts)'So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.'
Cha
(316,457 posts)SoFlaBro
(3,730 posts)They're not pro-peace. Just anti, anti, anti Biden. (Sound familiar?) And to praise hamas? Not just the average Palestinians who just want to feed their kids? Yeah, no. Sounds like the GQP bussed in their kids for this.
lapucelle
(20,932 posts)These protests are occurring every day in NYC. They are sponsored by If Not Now, The People's Forum, and Democratic Socialists of America.
At least some of the funding is likely coming from tech billionaire / Maoist Neville Roy Singham and his wife, Code Pink co-founder Jodie Evans. Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! was a guest at their 2017 wedding.
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Here's more about Neville Roy Singham from The New York Times.
https://archive.ph/vHKCM
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New Lines Magazine:
A New Lines investigation reveals a network of charities funneling millions into left-wing platforms that take Beijings side on the genocide allegations and theyre all connected to an American tech magnate
https://newlinesmag.com/reportage/the-big-business-of-uyghur-genocide-denial/
Lunabell
(7,309 posts)and praising a terrorist attack by hamas is now left wing?
I don't think so.
EllieBC
(3,602 posts)a protest outside Rep Jeffries office and put a goddamned watermelon only on his flyer.
Dont delude yourself into thinking bigotry, racism, and antisemitism doesnt exist on the left.
Lunabell
(7,309 posts)with the far left. Too many factions to deal with. No true progressive lefty would praise terrorism or bigotry.
lapucelle
(20,932 posts)And yes, they are screaming the "n" word and praising the Hamas terrorist attack.
Anyone upset that these racist anti-Semites are marching under the banner of left wing organizations should take it up directly with the organizers.
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paleotn
(21,427 posts)Particularly from the point of view of cui bono....who benefits.
lapucelle
(20,932 posts)These are If Not Now, The People's Forum, and Democratic Socialists of America protests. They are very well funded, and they are not Republican operatives.
I don't think this is as much "who benefits" as it is "who does this hurt".
It hurts Jews. It hurts Israelis. It hurts Democrats who refuse to abandon Israel.
And in the end, it hurts Palestinians.
They. Don't. Care.
The Magistrate
(96,043 posts)There's plenty of fools enlisted in the DSA....
lapucelle
(20,932 posts)It is also said (as Stephen Fry reminded us in a Christmas message) that anti-Semitism is a light sleeper.
Tamara Abood, an ex-Channel 4 current affairs commissioner and producer of shows including What Happens In Kavos, sparked anger after posting on LinkedIn about Fry's alternative Christmas Day message.
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Fry used his speech on Channel 4 to express concern about rising antisemitism in the UK and implored viewers to stand up against discrimination. The six-minute speech was produced by Fulwell 73.
Abood, who now works as a psychotherapist but maintains links to the TV industry, wrote that the speech was "disingenuous" in a series of LinkedIn messages.
She added: "C4 is broadcasting a Christmas message about anti-semitism. If this doesn't demonstrate to you where the power lies, and who dies for those lies of the powerful, you are choosing to be blind."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/news/jewish-tv-executives-voice-dismay-after-ex-channel-4-commissioner-attacks-stephen-fry-s-national-rallying-cry-against-antisemitism/ar-AA1mgyFd?ocid=msedgntp&pc=SCOOBE&cvid=1a2d95ccfac246b28b2deeb4ce70703f&ei=14
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218565658
LeftInTX
(34,013 posts)Danmel
(5,673 posts)That is their goal after all.
LeftInTX
(34,013 posts)JustAnotherGen
(37,476 posts)They won't be able to do this when Agenda 47 is inflicted on all of us.
Maybe that's what they want? Is an expansion of the cruelty on October 7th what they want? They want it extended to America?
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RandySF
(80,869 posts)lapucelle
(20,932 posts)who believe that the reelection of Donald Trump will usher in a left wing revolution.
Others don't care because they think that punishing Joe Biden for supporting Israel will force Democrats to discontinue that support.
EllieBC
(3,602 posts)loss of their rights. But I dont think they care. They are like anarchists and just want to watch it all burn. Even if it means they burn in it.
paleotn
(21,427 posts)Patton French
(1,816 posts)Who do they want instead of President Biden?
lapucelle
(20,932 posts)It may well be that they are working to depress overall Democratic, Democratic-leaning turnout in 2024.
LeftInTX
(34,013 posts)I marched behind the Party for Socialism and Liberation at the MLK March last January. They're a piece of work and they're involved in these protests, "Abolish the military", "Abolish the border", "Abolish prisons".
They have a candidate for POTUS: Claudia de la Cruz. https://votesocialist2024.com/
lapucelle
(20,932 posts)I wouldn't be surprised if Democracy Now! platformed her at some point.
Oopsie Daisy
(6,670 posts)* and it would not be an unfamiliar name, either.
LeftInTX
(34,013 posts)Of course, they're delusional
https://www.instagram.com/pslnational/?hl=en
madville
(7,834 posts)Green Party type leftists that hold as much disdain for Democrats as they do Republicans and have an antisemitic streak to boot. All the folks losing their jobs for being identified as participants in these rallies have probably curtailed some folks though.
LiberalFighter
(53,544 posts)revmclaren
(2,613 posts)doing what clueless disrupters do.
I would really like to know who is directing and funding this.
LetMyPeopleVote
(174,386 posts)Kennah
(14,465 posts)SoFlaBro
(3,730 posts)lapucelle
(20,932 posts)and are partially funded by a tech billionaire who identifies as a Maoist.
They can be located at the point where the two sides of the horseshoe meet.