You forgot to mention one thing: His pro-Palestinian, anti-Zionist policies -- which he does not hide, except from those who don't understand his thin attempts to paper them over -- are popular with the university-radicalized 20-and-30-year-olds who were the heart of Mamdani's campaign. Ponder this: Since Harry Truman recognized the State of Israel in 1947, every major Democrat has been pro-Israel, pro-Zionist. That is now over. It's good that Bill Kristol's late father is not alive to see his son's tepid, I'm-not-sure, he-is-a-fresh-voice..."critique."
But it is time for Dems to understwnd that young folks - so 40 ish, really don't have the same relationship to the holocaust or Israel that old folks do. I live in a mostly Hispanic town and they see the world fron a perspective that has the US and Israel and part of a white hegemony - and they as oppressed.
So Dems may need to keep the young in their tent even if they disagree on Israel.
I am happy to expel anti-Semites from the Party. Just as we expelled the racists in the 1970s.
"The US and Israel and part of a white hegemony"
I am happy to expel such ignoramuses from the Party. I go to synagogue with Israeli Jews whose skin is sufficiently dark that they would have been banned from attending the same schools as me or swimming in the same swimming pools as me back in the Jim Crow era. (Yes, I am that old.)
I suggest you do not label young progressives who have no real ties to the holocaust with the label of anti Semitism. I am 74 and my grandparents came from the Russian empire. I knew adults who had been in the camps and survived. But I canтАЩt argue the young into my perspective. (There are Jews in my extended family). But a 42 y/o activist who is Puerto Rican (I knew her well) sees Israel as a western colony. We simply cannot refuse to recognize that there are really different perspectives on issues like this.
Sorry i adamantly disagree. People have all they can do just to live their lives. The woman is raising a teenager alone. And since Puerto Rican - she really is focused on the prejudices she has noticed against herself. She is also a working class girl - I assume she hears many more hispanic voices that you do.
Have you ever spent time around hispanics? My town is 70 % hispanic - different perspective.
You forgot to mention one thing: His pro-Palestinian, anti-Zionist policies -- which he does not hide, except from those who don't understand his thin attempts to paper them over -- are popular with the university-radicalized 20-and-30-year-olds who were the heart of Mamdani's campaign. Ponder this: Since Harry Truman recognized the State of Israel in 1947, every major Democrat has been pro-Israel, pro-Zionist. That is now over. It's good that Bill Kristol's late father is not alive to see his son's tepid, I'm-not-sure, he-is-a-fresh-voice..."critique."
But it is time for Dems to understwnd that young folks - so 40 ish, really don't have the same relationship to the holocaust or Israel that old folks do. I live in a mostly Hispanic town and they see the world fron a perspective that has the US and Israel and part of a white hegemony - and they as oppressed.
So Dems may need to keep the young in their tent even if they disagree on Israel.
I am happy to expel anti-Semites from the Party. Just as we expelled the racists in the 1970s.
"The US and Israel and part of a white hegemony"
I am happy to expel such ignoramuses from the Party. I go to synagogue with Israeli Jews whose skin is sufficiently dark that they would have been banned from attending the same schools as me or swimming in the same swimming pools as me back in the Jim Crow era. (Yes, I am that old.)
I suggest you do not label young progressives who have no real ties to the holocaust with the label of anti Semitism. I am 74 and my grandparents came from the Russian empire. I knew adults who had been in the camps and survived. But I canтАЩt argue the young into my perspective. (There are Jews in my extended family). But a 42 y/o activist who is Puerto Rican (I knew her well) sees Israel as a western colony. We simply cannot refuse to recognize that there are really different perspectives on issues like this.
"Sees Israel as a western colony."
Ignorant anti-Semitism is every bit as bad as deliberate anti-Semitism.
"there are really different perspectives on issues like this"
People are entitled to their own opinions. They are not entitled to their own facts. Whether they are Robert Kennedy or some Puerto Rican "Activist".
Sorry i adamantly disagree. People have all they can do just to live their lives. The woman is raising a teenager alone. And since Puerto Rican - she really is focused on the prejudices she has noticed against herself. She is also a working class girl - I assume she hears many more hispanic voices that you do.
Have you ever spent time around hispanics? My town is 70 % hispanic - different perspective.
I have for the past 24 years lived in a majority Hispanic County -- 55% as of the last estimates. And my wife was born in Mexico.