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I don't. He's not running for mayor of the State Department. His impact on Israel will be jack shit. His entire focus and responsibility is on (a) fixing some of the economic insanity of New York that basically doesn't care if people live or die as long as Wall Street is throwing parties (b) making significant inroads and showing everyone that point a is an election-winning strategy. There's nothing in there that's going to impact the US's horrifying foreign policy as pertains to Israel. It's nice that he's pro-Palestinian, it's a point in his favor, but it literally doesn't mean shit and extensively nail biting about whether he's really pro-Palestinian enough to be mayor of New York City is just fuckin' weird.
Is he walking back some of his pro-Palestinian stuff? Sure. He started out with this "arrest Netanyahu" stuff which I am sure is fun and popular with his base, but now all of a sudden he's in a role of major responsibility and has to get along with people including a lot of powerful people who do support Israel, so now he has to tone it down a little. I AM EXTREMELY SURE HE STILL HATES ISRAEL AND SUPPORTS PALESTINE. I don't get where it comes from, this whole freakout about it all of a sudden being super important even what he thinks about Israel in the first place (actually, not just what he thinks about it, because that is already clear, but how we can scrutinize every public statement on wedge issue framings like "globalize the intifada".)
Actually, I do know where it comes from. People who support fascism have seen how incredibly effective it was to give Biden well-deserved criticism and suppress support for him so that they can make all these problems ten times worse and dress it up in a cloak of virtue and Palestinian-support, and so now they're globalizing it to Bernie Sanders, AOC, and now they're trying it out on this guy that has LITERALLY NOTHING TO DO WITH ISRAEL IN ANY CAPACITY. He has absolutely nothing to do with it in his government role. Nothing. The only thing that talking about it can do is help create reasons for people not to support him.
How'd that work out with Kamala Harris? People "challenged" her on all kinds of walk-backs, bad statements, insinuations, and attempts to thread the needle on the Israel issue. Did that unseat anybody from their place of power? Did it make anything better? Or did it make it horrifyingly worse than the genocide that was already in progress?
That's what strikes me as so stupid about the whole business. Sure, give criticism to whoever you want for whatever reason you want. Do what you like. But I don't get how, for example, pretending Bernie Sanders "is a Zionist" and doesn't deserve our support for that reason accomplishes anything of either truth or progress.
Perhaps it resulted in the success of campaigns like Mamdani’s and Platner’s? Perhaps it showed that the people will no longer take guff from the Democratic Party and they need to at least try to refine their image?
I don’t know I’m not a political analyst but I can say that I was radicalized through the resistance to Harris and that my ideology was changed for the better. I’m not an idiot that throws my vote away — I still voted for Harris — but I was not happy about it solely due to people’s outspoken opposition. Had it not been for them, I’d probably still be gobbling up liberal talking points.