>> take your purity olympics and shove it up your ass
Nobody should try to divide the electorate into "us" and "them" based on silly purity tests.
@emma get off your #Zionism and #genocide horse, because that's one of the ways elected traitors like Rashida #Tlaib was able to deprive #KamalaHarris of victory and hand the presidency to #Trump.
#Tlaib Demands #Blinken Resign Over Failure to Hold #Israel Accountable for #Gaza Genocide
"No nation blocking U.S. humanitarian assistance can receive U.S. weapons," said Rep. #RashidaTlaib. "The #Biden administration cannot pick and choose when they comply with our own laws."
from #CommonDreams
Brett Wilkins
Nov 15, 2024
https://www.commondreams.org/news/rashida-tlaib-blinken-resign
#NotAnotherBomb
#StopArmingIsrael
#IsraelWarCrimes #ArrestNetanyahuAndGallant
#USHandsOffICC
#BDS
#CeasefireNow #DivestFromIsrael
#StopGazaGenocide
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSea is #NotAntisemitic
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia #politics
#USA #US #USPolitics #USElection
#media #news #press @palestine @israel
Analysis: Trump won 43% of the vote in Dearborn, Michigan, to Harris’s 36%.
Trump’s victory in Dearborn was a massive reversal from Biden’s 2020 result of 69% to Trump’s 30.
It "was a telling sign of how completely the administration has lost Arab Americans over the war."
In contrast, Rashida Tlaib won 62% of the vote in Dearborn & was easily reelected to a fourth term.
https://theintercept.com/2024/11/06/dearborn-michigan-rashida-tlaib-kamala-harris-gaza/
In Dearborn, #RashidaTlaib Did Nearly Twice as Well as #KamalaHarris
Harris refused to distance herself from the #Biden administration's support of #Israel's war on #Gaza. #Tlaib railed against it.
by Matthew Sledge
November 6 2024
"Voters in the biggest U.S. city with an #Arab-majority population shifted decisively toward Donald #Trump on Tuesday, in a stinging rebuke of the Biden administration’s policies in the #MiddleEast.
"Trump claimed 43 percent of the vote in Dearborn, Michigan, to Kamala Harris’s 36 percent. #JillStein claimed 15 percent of the vote in the city, where the #GreenParty had notched less than 1 percent in 2020.
"Trump’s margin of victory in Dearborn represents a massive reversal from the 2020 election, when Joe Biden’s won 69 percent to Trump’s 30.
"The huge shift toward Trump will not be decisive in a race where he cruised to a Electoral College victory without the help of Michigan, the state with the highest percentage of Arab Americans. The state had yet to be called Wednesday morning. Still, it was a telling sign of how completely the administration has lost Arab Americans over the war.
"Down-ballot results suggest that the move was motivated in large part by anger toward the Biden administration rather than dissatisfaction with Democratic policies overall."
Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2024/11/06/dearborn-michigan-rashida-tlaib-kamala-harris-gaza/
Analysis: Trump won 43% of the vote in Dearborn, Michigan, to Harris’s 36%, Jill Stein, 15%.
Trump’s victory in Dearborn was a massive reversal from Biden’s 2020 result of 69% to Trump’s 30.
It "was a telling sign of how completely the administration has lost Arab Americans over the war."
In contrast, Rashida Tlaib won 62% of the vote in Dearborn & was easily reelected to a fourth term.
https://theintercept.com/2024/11/06/dearborn-michigan-rashida-tlaib-kamala-harris-gaza/
from #TheIntercept
In #Dearborn, #RashidaTlaib Did Nearly Twice as Well as #KamalaHarris
#Harris refused to distance herself from the #Biden administration's support of Israel's war on #Gaza. #Tlaib railed against it.
Matthew Sledge
November 6 2024, 1:47 p.m.
https://theintercept.com/2024/11/06/dearborn-michigan-rashida-tlaib-kamala-harris-gaza/
#NotAnotherBomb
#StopArmingIsrael
#RejectAIPAC #BDS
#CeasefireNow
#DivestFromIsrael
#StopGazaGenocide
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia #politics
#USA #US #USPolitics #USElection #DemocraticParty
#media #news #press @palestine @israel
>> no, Harris pledging to continue arming a genocide was instrumental.
That's a lie.
Look up the official readout of #KamalaHarris meeting with #Netanyahu. There isn't one on #Trump's meeting with Netanyahu, but if you know the difference between #Harris and Trump, it is not difficult to imagine what the latter discussion might have been.
>> No need to deflect blame on to #Rashida #Tlaib
Read this whole thread first 
https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/112851191648080504
>> #Jews are safest in a pluralistic society, where democratic institutions and civil rights protections are strong
So are #Muslims, or any other religious minority.
Somebody should explain this to traitorous Rashida #Tlaib that #ArabAmericans will be worse off under #Trump.
I know this story is several weeks old, but I wanted to talk about it because I'm not sure the mainstream media, which almost universally decried a racist cartoon about Rashida Tlaib being a potential target of an exploding pager in the wake of Israel's (widely-celebrated) terrorist attacks using exploding pagers in Lebanon, entirely understood or was prepared to talk about the ideas the "artist" involved was promoting.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/20/rashida-tlaib-cartoon-pager
Rashida Tlaib condemns cartoonist for racist image of her with exploding pager
"Rashida Tlaib, the Palestinian American congresswoman, has accused a political cartoonist of racism after he depicted her next to a pager exploding days after such devices blew up across Lebanon in what the Arab country has said was an attack by Israel.
A statement from the Democratic US House representative also expressed concern that the cartoon by Henry Payne would “incite more hate and violence against Arab and Muslim communities”.
“And it makes everyone less safe,” Tlaib said of the cartoon – published by the Republican-friendly National Review – which also showed her thinking how “odd” it was for the nearby pager to explode. Pagers had been a preferred method of Hezbollah members in conflict with Israel, before such devices exploded across Lebanon recently. “It’s disgraceful that the media continues to normalize this racism against our communities,” she said."
Now on the surface here, the media (and Tlaib herself) are obviously correct in saying that the cartoon the National Review published is racist, Islamophobic, and anti-Arab. Tlaib is also absolutely correct to point out that American is rapidly returning to an early-War on Terror state of open bigotry against Arab Americans, fueled by racist propaganda that is being normalized as a result of political actors, as well as U.S. support for Israel's genocide in Gaza and military actions against Lebanon; this is a larger, purposely-engineered problem in our society and it does make us all less safe - particularly Arab Americans.
With that having been noted here, there is also a fascist/McCarthyist subtext to this cartoon that as far as I can tell the media is largely ignoring, but the reactionaries pushing white nationalism and US imperial ambitions definitely picked up on. After all, this cartoon is referencing a method of assassination Israel deployed against people it identified as "enemies" and the clear implication of the cartoon is that Rashida Tlaib qualifies under that description and assassinating her might be a good or at least reasonable idea. This is, to put it succinctly, an extension of the fascist propaganda the American Right, all the way up to former President Donald Trump, is pushing regarding the need to take action against "enemies within." Which as we discussed yesterday, is not only straight out of the propaganda playbook for every fascist regime in human history, but ultimately a pretext for purging folks who oppose fascism and the hyper-reactionary nationalist order the larger American right is seeking to impose on our country. The idea that an elected American Congresswoman from Detroit is an enemy of the state, and thus a legitimate target for assassination is not-so subtly woven into the cartoon, and echoes the longstanding hate campaign establishment figures on the right in American politics have been directing against Tlaib for literally years now.
So yes, the cartoon is racist, yes it's Islamophobic, yes it's anti-Arab, yes it's a thinly veiled incitement for violence; but it's also important to understand that what the National Review has published here is straight up fascist propaganda and it has a clear goal of manufacturing consent for a new type of McCarthyism and the purge of "enemies" defined as anyone, including US politicians, who oppose fascism and American imperial violence. It would have been nice if even one publication I read mentioned that, but American fascism is so ingrained into our society at this point that I question whether folks in our media can even recognize it in the moment anymore.
"Despite broad popular support for legislation to curtail police violence, Congress got nothing done. Democrats, despite controlling both the House and Senate in 2021 and 2022, slow-walked the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, insisting on bipartisan support that never materialized."
"Both #BLM activists voted into Congress have been pushed out."
"Bowman and Bush have been routed out of Congress, thanks to a historic deluge of big-money spending against them. They battled challengers in the most and third-most-expensive congressional primaries in American history, respectively, and each was outspent roughly 4–1."
>> Rashida #Tlaib is #Palestinian
#FFS, she is a #US citizen and a #MemberOfCongress
Tlaib is puting the interests of #Palestine ahead of the interests of the country she took an oath to serve. That's not even in dispute.
US #Election2024 is about US FIRST, not #Israel, not #Palestine
Scroll up and see this discussion on #PoliticalExtortion on a different branch of this very thread https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/112940330939085701
#KamalaHarris #Harris #HarrisWalz
@Pineywoozle @sofiav @PamelaBarroway @Stybba3019
My last political donation at the federal level was in 2019 - I gave a small amount to the Julian Castro campaign. That is until yesterday, when I sent a few bucks to a politician I deeply respect: Rashida Tlaib.
Note that I've given small amounts multiple times for mutual aid in those 5 years; I do feel mutual aid has a bigger positive impact. So if you gave to the Harris campaign, find a few dollars for people in your communities who need it.
Edit: hashtag
YET, members of BOTH #Arab & #Jewish diaspora are holding #Harris hostage to extract further concessions for their side.
Rashida #Tlaib has not endorsed #KamalaHarris as the presumptive nominee from her OWN party, even though the rest of the Founding Members of the #Squad have.
Tlaib is asking #Muslim and #Arab-American community in battleground #Michigan to withhold votes from Harris even though Harris is clear she wants a home for #Palestinians and the war to end. What grievance remains?
I have said from the beginning that #Hamas #Oct7 attacks were timed for #ElectionInterference in #US #Election2024.
Never has this been more obvious than now.
Members of BOTH #Arab and #Jewish diaspora in #US have ratcheted up their attacks on #Democrats since #KamalaHarris became the presumptive nominee.
I have noted at length Rashida #Tlaib's role under that hashtag. Below, I note some from the #Israeli side.
BOTH groups are holding #Harris hostage to extract concessions for their side.
#Netanyahu is persona non grata in the #UnitedStates, outside the #Trump and #MAGA world.
Would you please carry this message to Rashida #Tlaib and her #Muslim and #Arab-American constituents?
To the extent this stance extends beyond support for #Hamas and strikes directly and incorrectly at #US and #Biden, it is designed as a deliberate ploy to interfere in #Election2024 — hence #HorseShoe and #BDSHorseShoe.
Particularly egregious are the acts of Rashida #Tlaib https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/111352305821082802
#Michigan is a battleground, and by driving voters away from #Biden, she is transparently endangering not just US national security but world security as well.
Also, don't lose sight of the fact that the obviously-stupid censure of congresswoman #Tlaib is part of a general GOP plot to grind the punitive apparatus of the legislative branch down to a nub in the minds of the American public. They *want* you to roll your eyes at this, so you'll take the next censure less seriously, until anyone in Congress can basically get away with anything and not be removed by voters over it. Don't fall for this! Always judge each punitive action on its own merits.
