In the latest fight to expose the yawning chasm between Democratic Party members and their leaders on Israel, the Democratic National Committee on Thursday shot down symbolic resolutions targeting AIPAC and arms transfers to Israel.
Members of a resolutions committee meeting in New Orleans rejected one symbolic resolution that would have condemned AIPAC’s role in party primaries and tabled a pair of resolutions that called for conditioning military aid to Israel.
Polls show that Democratic Party members are increasingly skeptical of Israel and supportive of Palestinians — a shift that hasn’t been reflected in the party’s official position.
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Instead, party leaders rejected the AIPAC resolution and referred the hot-button issue of arms transfers to Israel to a task force created by DNC Chair Ken Martin, which has yet to produce concrete results since it was created in August.
Allison Minnerly, the DNC member from Florida who sponsored the AIPAC resolution, said the votes exposed serious shortcomings on the part of leadership.
“It says that the Democratic Party just isn’t willing to have a hard conversation, isn’t willing to stand up, and just misses the mark when voters need it the most,” she said. “It is an embarrassing display of cowardice.”
The DNC member chairing the meeting, Ron Harris, said the arms transfers resolutions would be better handled by the task force, whose work he defended.
“Just for the record, this isn’t one of those things where you kick it down the line, and a committee where things go to die. These are people working really hard over a very thorny issue, and taking the time that it takes,” he said.
The proposals before the DNC committee on Thursday once again put party leaders in the hot spot after an earlier resolution from Minnerly last August called for a ban on arms sales to Israel.
Minnerly’s latest resolution highlighted the millions of dollars AIPAC spent to influence recent Democratic primaries in Illinois before reaffirming the party’s commitment to “reducing the role of corporate money and large-scale outside spending in Democratic primaries and general elections.”
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AIPAC in recent years has dumped tens of millions of dollars into Democratic primaries via a super PAC called the United Democracy Fund. It has taken an increasingly aggressive stance against anyone who questions U.S. support for Israel — including one pro-Israel congressional candidate who said he was open to conditioning military aid on respect for human rights.
The group’s heavy-handed role in recent Illinois campaigns drew fire from Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss, who blasted AIPAC when he won the Democratic Party primary for the 9th Congressional District.
In response to the growing backlash, AIPAC’s supporters have called its critics “antisemitic,” a charge echoed during the Thursday meeting when one member said that to single out AIPAC would be to “pick on the Jews.”
Separately, another resolution called for pausing weapons transfers to Israeli military units accused of human rights violations and recognizing Palestinian statehood, and a third called for conditioning military aid to Israel in compliance with international law in light of the U.S.–Israeli war on Iran.
Those resolutions were referred to the task force.
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There needs to be a purge. I sound like a crazy person, but how long are we just going to allow these people to continue to rape our civilization for their own personal benefit? At what point do we say that it cannot go on? When they defend the use of nukes in Iran because Israel told them to? When they defend the use of nukes on American soil by the American government because it was a gross lefty antisemitic city anyways? When they personally vote for the annexation of America by Israel?
At what point do we say enough is enough? I was ready when they decided genocide is acceptable.
Isreal is literally an ally of the Republican Party. A direct sponsor even. By allowing them to buy your primaries you are just signaling to voters that you are a controlled opposition. Is it any wonder you can’t get out the vote?
Fuck the DNC then…if you don’t represent US, get FUCKED
This is pretty devastating news for anyone who had hoped the new DNC would be any different from the old guard.
Banning Israel’s dark money spending in Dem primaries should be a total no-brainer. If they can’t even commit to that, then there’s really no hope for the party which has become increasingly divorced from the needs of its constituents.
This is a massive indicator that it’s time for a new political party in the US which is actually left of center, unlike the Dems. They are simply too corrupt to be trusted to do the right thing.
How do we get a third party going? Most are ready for it, but the U.S. system is so closed up. Financing, getting on the ballads… I’d like to know a realistic path. I’m ready for something to organize behind.
Great question. I wish I had good answers for this because I’d be jumping in and doing it too. It’s going to take some work. I have some concepts of a plan I’ve been iterating on, wouldn’t mind hearing your thoughts on this.
A big piece of the puzzle is going to be getting rid of FPTP and implementing national ranked choice (or star) voting, then electing officials who will promise to get rid of the electoral college. These alone would make the US system much more democratic, and enable us to elect a 3rd party official much more easily. We can do this at the state level, one state at a time. If a particular group gets really good at organizing and making it happen in a given state, maybe they can get crowd funded to help proliferate the cause to other states.
From there, it’s a matter of organizing to get required signatures for party representation in the various state elections. I think this probably works best starting at the local level, and we can start building towards that moment now with our various groups for organized labor, anti ice, socialism, etc. I don’t know if we necessarily need to galvanize nationally behind a single party, so long as each state is putting forward candidates who will represent the people’s interest above donor interests.
Once we have those people in office, they must use the power of Congress to restructure the Supreme Court. It’s broken right now due to the highly partisan judges. Right now there are 9 judges, I think we should add 10 more and do so with a mandate that they must overturn Buckley v Valeo and Citizens United. Those two disastrous decisions are what makes it possible for the legal bribery to take place which wholly captures our politicians. Take away the bribes, and all of the sudden they have to be accountable to voters again, instead of corporate/billionaire interests. And perhaps most importantly, would not be doing Israel’s bidding at every turn.
There are many other tweaks and improvements we could make from there, but the only other one I’ll mention here for now is that the new Congress should also restore the Fairness Doctrine for news media. Without it, American mainstream news has become full on propaganda. We should not be aiming to brainwash our own people to such an extent, or at all for that matter. A well educated populace is crucial for maintaining a healthy, vigilant democracy. This could go a long way towards restoring something like that…although as the boomers die out, so too does the relevance of mainstream news, so this one can easily get a bit more into the weeds once you consider the breadth of content consumed by younger generations.
Ah but that would be “dividing the left” and we cant have that, you need to blindly vote for genocide again and again because thats how democracy works.
This is pretty devastating news for anyone who had hoped the new DNC would be any different from the old guard.
The user givesomefucks is usually the one I see who never misses a chance to inform people the new DNC will be different. I wanted them to be right, but there is no political party of any significance that will ever do what the people actually want. That would be a different America for sure. :/
Yes, I thought of them right away upon reading this. I do appreciate the positive vibes and keeping hope alive, but as is always the case in politics, the votes matter more than the rhetoric.
Would be interested to hear @givesomefucks@lemmy.world thoughts on these developments.
I happened to stumble upon their answer in another thread recently posted on the topic:
What the DNC is actually doing, straight from the DNC chair:
Let’s be clear on what really happened: Today, the Resolutions Committee voted to pass a resolution condemning the corrosive influence of ALL dark money in Democratic primaries. We had various resolutions that focused on different industries and groups, and instead of going one-by-one, we passed a blanket repudiation.
I have made my position on this clear from day one: We must end the influence of dark money in our politics and restore power back to the people.
Ok, interesting. That is consistent with the reporting and Bernie’s statements in this article: Common dreams on DNC resolution
The rumor for why people are pissed about them tabling the AIPAC-specific resolution is that 2 of the likely presidential candidates in ‘28 pressured them to do so. Because apparently it is still forbidden to call out Israel’s misdeeds amongst Washington elites. I’m about 99% sure those two are Gavin Newsom and Kamala Harris. Any thoughts on other likely culprits?
That aside, I’m inclined to agree with Bernie here. Wishy-washy policy is the last thing we need to properly meet this moment and galvanize support from the voting base. Why not the general dark money resolution, and then double down with an AIPAC money resolution to be firm and clear, since the outsized AIPAC influence is already a kitchen-table topic of interest amongst US voters?
I would take it as another indicator that the winning group is the one that lobbies, organizes, and applies pressure better. Israel has been at it for decades, but I’ve only seen skepticism of US support for it gaining ground domestically since ~2019. The pressure is on generation-bridge democrats like AOC to move the DNC on the issue, and it’s because pressure is on them from constituents who are organizing, fundraising and lobbying.
I think taking it as an indicator to split the most Israel-skeptical voters into two camps, in a system that generally operates with FPTP voting, would lead to taking steps likely to worsen the situation.
Yeah, nail on the head. I worked under Ken more than a decade ago for a hot minute and while part of me still hopes for some positive news, I’m not holding my breath. I don’t consider myself a party member though I am registered as a Dem for progressive primary reasons.
Thank GOD! The LAST thing I wanted was a Party that Represented AMERICAN Constituents instead of NOT being Trump!
Snouts in the trough
Eat up pigs
There’s more of that lovely political corruption money coming your way
Corporate and foreign financing of political parties is straight up political corruption and the Democrats are no better than the republicans for accepting money that puts paid interests above voters voters
Queue the person bitching that voters should have been enthusiastic about Kamala and her brave support of Israel.
Say whatever you want, we would not be in this situation right now if Kamala had been elected.
Minimizing harm is completely valid basis for voting decisions.
So Copmala who didn’t even pretend to not fully support the genociders for the sake of winning the election would definitely not fully support the genociders after the election? LOL
We wouldn’t be in this situation if Kamala had cared more about winning the election than murdering innocent children.
Maybe not in domestic policy, but we could absolutely be at war with Iran right now. At the start of the war, it was reported that the US went in primarily because Israel was going to do so, and that would result in the US getting dragged in anyway. The only way to prevent the Iran war was to have a president actually willing to stand up to Israel, and Kamala fully supports Israel.
Also, I agree with your sentence that harm minimization is a valid way of voting. What I absolutely resent is the haughty assumption people make that this is the ONLY valid way of voting.
If Kamala won she would have doubled down on her genocidal stances and gone all out on supporting the Zionists, the second Dems arent threatened that tend to do that. Granted they got crushed yet still learnt nothing. Maybe thats a sign your so called liberal democracy has failed.
She wouldn’t have let doge be a thing. She wouldn’t have shut down the Forrest service. She wouldn’t have demolished the east wing. We would deffo be better off if she had gotten elected.
Bullshit. There is no way Harris would have put us in the same position that trump has.
Continue to provide arms to Israel while they commit genocide? Yeah, that would probably happen. At the same scale? Maybe, probably not. Join in a war with Iran? No way.
That doesn’t even get into all the other damage republicans have done like fire everyone who isn’t a religious zealot, including top generals. We haven’t even see the full extent of the their evil yet.
Israel would have given the same ultimatum they have to Trump to Kamala. That being they were gonna attack anyway and US bases were gonna get attacked, from this Kamala would have four options:
- Allow Iran to get away with attacking US military bases and do nothing (severely unpopular and will be used against her)
- Condemn Israel and force them to end the war (this requires a spine on foreign policy she doesn’t have)
- End direct US involvement in the Middle East (this requires a spine domestically which again she doesn’t have)
- Allow Israel to string the US along in fighting and mostly act as an assistant to Zionist war crimes in the region (overwhelmingly unpopular but serves the dark money groups that fund her)
Now lets consider the other effects of Kamala’s campaign:
- She would work extremely hard to discredit and beat down progressives in the party
- Like Biden she would fail to pass much policy
- States would start outright ignoring the federal government with Kamala not doing anything to stop them
- She would strengthen and maintain the status quo making any change significantly harder, still doing neoliberal decline but more efficiently.
- She still does ice raids but quietly and more precisely
- She still defunds social programs but frames it as “bipartisan negotiations”
Now consider the after effects of a Kamala presidency
- Republicans are practically guaranteed to win
- The media is overwhelmingly controlled by the right
- Democrats dig their head in the sand and go further right
They’re a strategic US ally.
Why shouldn’t we(US) support them?
Allah can choke on a dick just like your mother did. It’s a damn shame she didn’t swallow your dumb ass.
And there we have it.
The genocider supporter POS goes mask off in his racism.It’s shit like that that’ll get you tagged as a fascist
Where are the mods here?
He should be kicked out of Lemmy at least.
Since I can’t punch that POS in the throat unfortunately.I should probably just block you, Stalin.
This is intentional. People will vote 3rd party and continue the Republican fascist reign.
