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Fetterman continues his feud with progressive Democrats and says they ‘left’ him – Washington Examiner
In an interview with the New York Post, Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) said that the Progressive movement left him, and he doesnt recognize it anymore.
The interview, which was conducted in the dark, ranged from the border crisis to how Fetterman, who once championed himself as a progressive, now doesnt associate with the movement.
Its not so much that I left the title, the title left me, Fetterman said in the interview. Increasingly, [progressives] moved and migrated into some positions that I dont agree with and I really just feel much more comfortable just being a Democrat,
Fetterman, who endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) for president in 2016, also hit his colleagues for refusing to acknowledge the border crisis.
He pointed out how the record number of illegal immigrants crossing the border is larger than the population of Pittsburgh, the second-largest city in his home state of Pennsylvania.
There is a crisis, he said. We have a crisis at our border, and it cant be controversial that we should have a secure border.
He called for both parties to come together and solve the border problem and said he believes that President Joe Biden believes that there is an issue at the border.
We have Democratic cities across the nation that have brought this issue to the forefront and they deserve to be supported and I believe ultimately they will be supported from a federal level, Fetterman said.
He also hit some of his fellow Democrats on their lack of support for Israel.
He said he doesnt want to be a part of a group that acts like they dont know what From the River to the Sea means.
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It is a chant used by pro-Palestine supporters that calls for the eradication of Israel.
Its just a lot of moral clarity in the situation because you have a special relationship with Israel, he said. That nation is most reflective of the kinds of open, progressive, liberal policies, and its a strange paradox where the most progressive members of our party seem to not recognize that Israel is a nation that supports those values.
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The quandary for progressive Jews – New York Daily News
Like many American Jews, we feel alienated from our historical left-wing political home, especially since Hamas vicious terrorist attack on Oct. 7. If more progressives were on the streets rallying for a two-state solution, denouncing terrorism, and advocating for an end to the siege of Gaza by both Egypt and Israel, we would gladly endorse them.
We deeply desire the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside Israel and view it as an essential step in obtaining long term peace in the region. But movements that seem dedicated to Palestinian safety and self-determination to the exclusion of equally valid Jewish needs have no place for us.
Progressive leaders and followers alike have wielded hateful tropes and lines of advocacy against Israel since Oct. 7 many doing so even before Israel had begun its intensive military response. We hope to explain why some of them are so hurtful as the basis for continued dialogue and, ultimately, rapprochement.
Redefining Zionism on behalf of Jews. Zionism is the belief that Jews have the right to self-determination in our historic homeland (Israel), to which we are an indigenous people. Many attempt to sever Zionism from Judaism in a way that denies how inextricably interconnected it is with Jewish history, traditions, peoplehood, ritual, etc.
There is a concerted effort by some progressives to redefine Zionism and antisemitism on behalf of Jews, often while tokenizing fringe Jewish voices to do so. Much of this rhetoric asserts that Zionism is inherently racist, predicated on Jewish supremacy and the oppression of Palestinians.
This notion demonizes the existence of a Jewish majority state at the exclusion of equally condemning other nation states, such as the roughly 50 Muslim and 15 Christian majority countries. An inconsistency of this nature cannot be interpreted as anything other than specifically opposing Jewish self-determination.
Casting progressivism and Zionism in opposition. We fear that the words and deeds of many progressive leaders are making us American Jews feel forced to choose between our progressive values and our dedication to Jewish self-determination, which should not be mutually exclusive.
Progressivism strives to uphold the rights of all people, minorities in particular, and supporting Jewish self-determination (Zionism) does exactly that. Progressives should, therefore, be equally dedicated to protecting both Jewish and Palestinian people.
Claiming Israeli Jews are white European settler-colonialists.This characterization ignores that themajority of Israeli Jews would be identified in the American racial caste system as people of color. It also denies the reality that Jews are indigenous to the land of Israel, not Europe.
Denying the link between Anti-Zionism and antisemitism. Opposing the Israeli government and its policies is not inherently antisemitic, but opposing Israels existence is. One can critique specific leaders and governmental policies without wishing away an entire country. Advocating for the destruction of the country where almost half of world Jewry resides threatens the Jewish community with another genocide.
Accusing Israel of genocide. The assertion that Israel, in an effort to protect itself against terrorism (as outlined in Hamas 1988 charter) is committing genocide the purposeful mass killing of innocent civilians with the intent of destroying that ethnic group as a whole is misleading, Holocaust inversion, and modern blood libel.
Perpetuating factually incorrect, inflammatory information about Israel (where almost half of the Jews on Earth reside), feels to many Jews like the repackaging of age-old antisemitic tropes, such as blaming Jews for instigating world conflicts and asserting that Jews are liars who fabricate atrocities against them to gain power. These notions serve as pretense for anti-Jewish hate and violence.
While we support Palestinians right to safety and self-determination, we cannot support people who call Zionism racism, who claim that Jews in Israel are white settler-colonialists, who believe that this war against Hamas is akin to the genocide that Jews experienced during the Holocaust, and who advocate for the elimination of the only Jewish state, which helps to ensure our ongoing survival.
Intentional or not, many Jews feel that these statements are antisemitic and a threat to the safety of Jews everywhere. Until more progressive leaders can forego harmful tropes about Jews and Israel, we and many progressive Jews like us cannot support them.
We do not intend to walk away from progressive causes, but rather to elevate leaders who are simultaneously pro-Palestine and pro-Israel, who lead with nuance, and who understand that the pursuit of peace and justice cannot be devoid of historical context or create pretense to attack one historically vulnerable group in the name of supporting another.
Brodsky, a cantor, and Stanton, a rabbi, are co-clergy at East End Temple in Manhattan.
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Why these progressives want ex-Rep. Andy Levin to run against Biden – Detroit News
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Letter: I favor conservatives over progressives – The Dispatch Argus
America First conservatives have never called for a civil war. Those are the words of Karl Marx progressives. I personally want elections that are free of determinative fraud and honor the principle of one legitimate ballot per one legitimate voter.
I favor electing America First Conservatives over Karl Marx progressives. I prefer using the sacred right to vote to form a righteous government. A government that will restore the constitutional republic of the United States to a land of divine promise. This creates a much better Society than any form of Karl Marx tyranny.
We already had our Revolutionary War, our Civil War, our world wars, our Civil Rights Movement. It is not a civil war that America needs, "We the people" are fighting a spiritual war over the heart and soul of our government. One nation under God or one nation under tyranny. No shots have to be fired, but elections have to be free and fair.
Chairman Stowe Foundation of Illinois
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