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THEATER OF THE ABSURD
“DSA is steadfast in expressing our solidarity with Palestine. [Saturday’s] events are a direct result of Israel’s apartheid regime. … This was not unprovoked. For over 60 years, Palestinians have faced ethnic cleansing, torture, bombings, and housing demolitions.” – Democratic Socialists of America (“Six Members of Congress are part of this organization: Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Shri Thanedar (D-MI), Cori Bush (D-MO), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Jamaal Bowman (D-NY), and Greg Casar (D-TX).
“As a radical Black organization grounded in abolitionist ideals, we see clear parallels between Black and Palestinian people. We, too, understand what it means to be surveilled, dehumanized, property seized, families separated, our people criminalized and slaughtered with impunity, locked up in droves, and when we resist they call us terrorists. We, too, dream of a world where our people may live freely on decolonized land.” – Black Lives Matter Grassroots
“We, the undersigned student organizations, hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence.” – Joint Statement by Harvard Palestine Solidarity Groups on the Situation in Palestine
FOR THE RECORD
“The Nazis tried to hide their war crimes. Hamas is livestreaming theirs.” – Bari Weiss
“U.S. aid to Israel is and should be unconditional, and never more so than in this moment of critical need. Shame on anyone who glorifies as ‘resistance’ the largest single-day mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust. It is reprehensible and repulsive.” – Congressman Ritchie Torres (D-NY) rebuking “Squad” members who defended Hamas
POLITICAL FUTURES
“Every trip to the supermarket and gas station reminds voters of what inflation has done, yet the pain doesn’t vanish just because professional economists say the forecast is brightening. … Americans gave Biden a loan, in effect, both in 2020 and 2022. Now the payments are coming due – and those interest rates are up. After three years, Bidenomics means Bidenflation to most voters.” – Daniel McCarthy
“America is living in an era of fragmentation, and something has gone terribly wrong in our society on our way to that era. We celebrate vulgarity, lies, and anger, and more often than not prop up the people who perpetuate it. How did this happen? … It’s hard to say, but the best foot forward should begin by no longer rewarding people with our votes who are more interested in entertaining on social media than in governing.” – Salena Zito
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