Protests continue on Capitol Hill, as well. On Tuesday, members of Jewish Voice for Peace occupied the office of Congressmember Hakeem Jeffries, calling on the Democratic leader to reject funding from AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Jeffries is one of AIPAC’s largest recipients. The action came as over 20 groups launched the Reject AIPAC coalition, established to counter the powerful lobby group’s influence in D.C. and to call on elected officials to reject endorsements and contributions from AIPAC
Also,
perfect is the enemy of good
A foreign country buying the politicians in leadership positions of both parties should at least be taken as seriously as a foreign country buying just one of the parties.
That doesn't really talk about his recent position, just public pressure on him and past donations? Schumer, for example, has made quite a few enemies at AIPAC in the past few weeks. Maybe Jeffries hasn't been as vocal, but he also hasn't been making huge efforts to support them.
And you're willing to let the GOP rise to power because the dems are imperfect? Really?
And you’re willing to let the GOP rise to power because the dems are imperfect? Really?
Yeah. They're fine with genocide here because America Bad and Deserves It.
Maybe Jeffries hasn’t been as vocal, but he also hasn’t been making huge efforts to support them.
He's the Dem House leader and we just passed a budget where Israel gets another 3 billion and we can't donate to UNRWA till 2025...
And you're saying he isn't doing anything for Israel?
So you're willing to let the GOP take over just because he's imperfect? And then we lose all our rights and give even more to Israel, but you'd be happy because the dems lost?
And I hate to break it to you, but you will NEVER in your life see a congressional budget that you 100% agree with.
Hey, you're cool with foreign governments owning our politicians in the highest parts of our government.
I'm not.
Everyone has their own personal line that they can't rationalize past. Ive hit mine.
I hope shit gets better before you cross yours. It sucks.
Privilege sure is sweet, huh?
Says the person who's life isn't effected by a foreign government owning our highest elected politicians...
I guarantee my life is more effected by who is president than most people on Lemmy.
And not just for the next four years. If shit gets bad before it gets better, whether that's good or bad is just about timescale. And only thinking one election ahead hasn't been working out.
There's no reason to think it'll suddenly start happening.
There's a reason they highlight the fact that the news article is 7 months old at the top of the page
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/30/hakeem-jeffries-endoreses-ilhan-omar-aipac-00113394
https://www.theroot.com/rep-hakeem-jeffries-says-hell-protect-progressives-tar-1851115609
https://theintercept.com/2024/01/17/hakeem-jeffries-aipac-summer-lee/
Also, perfect is the enemy of good
Here's something more recent then:
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/3/14/headlines/jewish_voice_for_peace_occupies_hakeem_jeffriess_office_as_20_orgs_launch_reject_aipac_coalition
Also,
A foreign country buying the politicians in leadership positions of both parties should at least be taken as seriously as a foreign country buying just one of the parties.
That doesn't really talk about his recent position, just public pressure on him and past donations? Schumer, for example, has made quite a few enemies at AIPAC in the past few weeks. Maybe Jeffries hasn't been as vocal, but he also hasn't been making huge efforts to support them.
And you're willing to let the GOP rise to power because the dems are imperfect? Really?
Yeah. They're fine with genocide here because America Bad and Deserves It.
He's the Dem House leader and we just passed a budget where Israel gets another 3 billion and we can't donate to UNRWA till 2025...
And you're saying he isn't doing anything for Israel?
So you're willing to let the GOP take over just because he's imperfect? And then we lose all our rights and give even more to Israel, but you'd be happy because the dems lost?
And I hate to break it to you, but you will NEVER in your life see a congressional budget that you 100% agree with.
Hey, you're cool with foreign governments owning our politicians in the highest parts of our government.
I'm not.
Everyone has their own personal line that they can't rationalize past. Ive hit mine.
I hope shit gets better before you cross yours. It sucks.
Privilege sure is sweet, huh?
Says the person who's life isn't effected by a foreign government owning our highest elected politicians...
I guarantee my life is more effected by who is president than most people on Lemmy.
And not just for the next four years. If shit gets bad before it gets better, whether that's good or bad is just about timescale. And only thinking one election ahead hasn't been working out.
There's no reason to think it'll suddenly start happening.