Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-Mich.) is revoking his membership in the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) over its promotion of what he said was an antisemitic rally in New York City.
“Today, I am officially renouncing my membership in the Democratic Socialists of America. After the brutal terrorist attacks on Israel, which included the indiscriminate murder, rape, and kidnapping of innocent men, women, and children, I can no longer associate with an organization unwilling to call out terrorism in all its forms,” he wrote in a statement Wednesday.
Thanedar, formerly one of the six members of the DSA in Congress, said that a rally in Times Square on Sunday pushed him to make the decision.
The rally, held just one day after Hamas launched its deadly attack on Israel, was also denounced by other lawmakers and officials.
“Sunday’s hate-filled and antisemitic rally in New York City, promoted by the NYC-DSA, makes it impossible for me to continue my affiliation. I stand with Israel and its right to defend itself. There is no place for moral equivocation in the face of unadulterated evil as we have seen from Hamas,” Thanedar added.
A former CEO with a history of fraud investigations and votes with Matt Gaetz…
He’s not progressive, he just pulled a Sinema to get elected.
And this is just a PR grab, he’d already been talking about starting a far right Hindu caucus in the US a few weeks ago. It just didn’t get any press, so now he’s trying to make it sound like this is why he’s doing it.
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She denounced the problematic people that showed up with nazi flags…
That makes sense, and I don’t know anyone that would disagree with that.
This chucklefuck seems to think a handful of bigots means the DSA supports nazis. Which is fucking stupid for a lot of reasons that shouldn’t need explaining.
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It also did not speak for the thousands of New Yorkers who are capable of rejecting both Hamas’ horrifying attacks against innocent civilians as well as the grave injustices and violence Palestinians face under occupation,” she said.
It’s right there…
And something her and other progressives have been saying for like a decade now.
It seems like you want to make it sound like AOC is condemning anyone that’s not sucking off Netenyahu
I don’t think I’m going to be able to help you. And I definitely don’t want to spend my morning trying to find out.
Try someone else.
You know you’re in for a bad day when givesomefucks doesn’t give a fuck!
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No idea why you are getting down voted for asking a question especially as it brings up something important around the DSA and it’s highest profile members. I will look for the article but saw that the national DSA org came out saying the event was not planned (or supported? trying to remember how strong the language was) by the national org but rather the NY chapter. It will be interesting to see the fallout and whether that changes the power balance within org leadership
It will be an interesting litmus test for the DSA. If they want to achieve national relevance, they’ll need to pretty much agree with AOC and investigate what happened with the NY chapter.
All they need to say is that they condemn the Hamas attack just like they condemn Israel’s indiscriminate bombing of Palestine, and they plan to investigate their NY chapter to understand what happened.
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No idea why you are getting down voted
Unfortunately leftists hate having their thought processes challenged almost as much as MAGAs.
He was already expelled from his local DSA chapter.
To be clear, it appears that he was expelled for supporting Narendra Modi, not for anything to do with Israel or Palestine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shri_Thanedar#U.S._House_of_Representatives
Good, fuck Modi
Imagine what you’d have to do to get expelled from the DSA.
No need to imagine. It was for being Narendra Modi’s buddy.
The narrative of “the far left is antisemitic” is getting pushed real hard for some reason.
“Moderate” Dems and Republicans love pretending that disliking Israel’s political stances and human rights abuses is antisemitic.
It’s taking a while, but the voting public is finally starting to call them on that bullshit.
They’re not necessarily antisemitic, though I think the far right sees an opportunity there and is actively infiltrating. Horseshoe theory.
But they are definitely anti-Israel (which is fine) and pro-“anyone who fights against Israel” (which is not at all fine).
Sometimes the enemy of my enemy is just another enemy, and the far left doesn’t understand that about the Israel-Palestine conflict. Israel and the IDF are both terrible.
Rallying against Israel - cool
Rallying against Jews - not cool (though I don’t think this is happening to any serious degree on the far left)
Rallying for Palestinians - cool
Rallying for Hamas - not cool
When a not-small chunk of far left activists are saying “I see no real problem with the indiscriminate murder, rape, and kidnapping of Jews, so long as it’s done in the name of decolonization”, is it that surprising?
I really don’t think it’s a particularly large ask to be able to denounce Israel’s actions against Palestinians, and be able to say that this does not justify murdering 200 civilians at a music festival.
Bibi has done more to support Hamas than anyone on the left ever could, but why aren’t you calling that war criminal out?
Bold of you to think I like him, when I’d say he’s probably one of the single individuals that’s done the most to contribute to the environment that caused this.
Still doesn’t excuse what happened last weekend. Nothing can. There is a difference between acknowledging how some of Israel’s actions have brewed a large amount of legitimate anger and resentment and thinking that that anger and resentment can ever justify indiscriminate murder of civilians.
And before you ask, yes, I think cutting off water, power, and aid is an excessive response.
Good, we agree Israelis and Palestinians deserve better.
But I am so over complaining about random no names w/ bad takes when they have no power.
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Yeah, I’m calling bullshit that he ever actually supported the group. It was a gambit to make Leftists seem foolish. Shri Thanedar is a moderate and therefore a conservative. Dude’s wikipedia page has details that sound fake af too
In 1990, Thanedar took a job working nights and weekends for $15/hour at Chemir/Polytech Laboratories to learn the business. He took out a loan to buy Chemir in 1991 for $75,000.
Somehow, a guy working $15/hr in 1990 had enough financial caché at the bank to get a 75k loan…to buy an entire pharmaceutical company? Also, since when does Wikipedia post such mundane details about someone’s life? They typically don’t. Seems like he had some PR men who don’t understand the internet edit his wikipedia page for him.
Taking an after hours $15/hour job to learn the business means he was checking the place out without committing to leave his day job. Some companies won’t allow interns to work for free either. They had $150,000 in sales the first year which means it was probably a startup. I won’t comment on the rest of your point but a guy that had a PHD by 1984 buying a business in 1991 doesn’t seem weird to me.
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Someone is angling for AIPAC funds, it seems.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-Mich.) is revoking his membership in the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) over its promotion of what he said was an antisemitic rally in New York City.
After the brutal terrorist attacks on Israel, which included the indiscriminate murder, rape, and kidnapping of innocent men, women, and children, I can no longer associate with an organization unwilling to call out terrorism in all its forms,” he wrote in a statement Wednesday.
“Sunday’s hate-filled and antisemitic rally in New York City, promoted by the NYC-DSA, makes it impossible for me to continue my affiliation.
The NYC-DSA had reposted a statement on X, the platform previously known as Twitter, promoting rallies against funding for Israel on Saturday, the same day Hamas first infiltrated the nation.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), another member of the DSA, also denounced the rally held in New York City in a statement earlier this week.
It also did not speak for the thousands of New Yorkers who are capable of rejecting both Hamas’ horrifying attacks against innocent civilians as well as the grave injustices and violence Palestinians face under occupation,” she said.
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