I take issue with this framing on multiple levels.
First: our goals should not be to score political points on Twitter: they should be to provide security, dignity, and political rights to the persecuted.
Second, inviting political activists exiled by a country we materially support to the US is like demanding ICE deport foreign nationals to nicer third countries: it misses the point completely. This shouldn’t happen. And US lawmakers have the power to stop it, so that’s what they should do.
Finally, the current Democratic leadership is Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jefferies. Despite highly visible outliers, this whole premise assumes Democrats want to support human rights in Israel. This is like believing that Trump is working tirelessly to bring Epstein’s coconspiritors to justice.
Democrats are more inclined to stop what is happening in Gaza. Remember Trump at one time was thinking of displacing Palestinians in Gaza and making it into a French Riviera.
The NAZA filmmakers do not support Israel’s military activities in Gaza. Democrats proposing entry to the US for the filmmakers if their citizenship is revoked would not only win votes from those opposing Israel’s military activities in Gaza but provide publicity for the film.
California Governor Gavin Newsom, a 2028 presidential hopeful, ventured farther than ever in his criticisms of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a weekend interview that delved into the Democratic Party’s relationship with Israel.
“I think it’s overwhelmingly opposed to the current regime in Israel,” Newsom said of the party, in a PBS News Hour interview with Amna Nawaz.
I take issue with this framing on multiple levels.
First: our goals should not be to score political points on Twitter: they should be to provide security, dignity, and political rights to the persecuted.
Second, inviting political activists exiled by a country we materially support to the US is like demanding ICE deport foreign nationals to nicer third countries: it misses the point completely. This shouldn’t happen. And US lawmakers have the power to stop it, so that’s what they should do.
Finally, the current Democratic leadership is Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jefferies. Despite highly visible outliers, this whole premise assumes Democrats want to support human rights in Israel. This is like believing that Trump is working tirelessly to bring Epstein’s coconspiritors to justice.
Democrats are more inclined to stop what is happening in Gaza. Remember Trump at one time was thinking of displacing Palestinians in Gaza and making it into a French Riviera.
The NAZA filmmakers do not support Israel’s military activities in Gaza. Democrats proposing entry to the US for the filmmakers if their citizenship is revoked would not only win votes from those opposing Israel’s military activities in Gaza but provide publicity for the film.
From https://www.timesofisrael.com/gavin-newsom-says-democrats-overwhelmingly-opposed-to-the-current-regime-in-israel/
California Governor Gavin Newsom, a 2028 presidential hopeful, ventured farther than ever in his criticisms of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a weekend interview that delved into the Democratic Party’s relationship with Israel.
“I think it’s overwhelmingly opposed to the current regime in Israel,” Newsom said of the party, in a PBS News Hour interview with Amna Nawaz.