{"id":1068679,"date":"2021-11-30T13:28:41","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T18:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1068679"},"modified":"2021-11-30T13:28:47","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T18:28:47","slug":"left-wing-organization-threatens-squad-member-over-iron-dome-vote-trip-to-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/left-wing-organization-threatens-squad-member-over-iron-dome-vote-trip-to-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Left-Wing Organization Threatens \u2018Squad\u2019 Member Over Iron Dome Vote, Trip To Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fleft-wing-organization-threatens-squad-member-over-iron-dome-vote-trip-to-israel%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1068679&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A working group within the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is calling for the expulsion of Democratic New York Rep. Jamaal Bowman over a series of moves that it views as too supportive of Israel.<\/p>\n<p>In recent months, Bowman has <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/23\/one-republican-voted-against-funding-israel-iron-dome-thomas-massie\/\">voted<\/a> in favor of a $1 billion aid package to fund Israel\u2019s Iron Dome missile defense system, declared his opposition to the Boycott, Divest, and Sanction (BDS) movement, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jta.org\/2021\/11\/09\/politics\/jamaal-bowman-squad-member-joins-j-street-tour-of-israel-and-meets-yair-lapid\">visited<\/a> Israel on a tour led by the left-wing group J Street.<\/p>\n<p>These actions \u201cshow that he simply is not in solidarity with Palestinians,\u201d the DSA BDS and Palestine Solidarity Working Group claimed in a Medium <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@dsapalestinesolidarity\/dsa-bds-working-group-formally-calls-for-the-expulsion-of-rep-jamaal-bowman-fa92eba6854a\">post<\/a>. The working group is one of more than 20 organizations within DSA that have called for Bowman\u2019s censure or expulsion, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/tempestmag\/photos\/a.144058903928771\/411153303885995\">according<\/a> to the socialist Tempest Magazine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do not align myself\u201d with groups supporting BDS, Bowman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eC87V89uTeA&amp;t=1525s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> in a May interview with Jewish Community Relations Council-New York Chief Executive Officer Michael Miller. \u201cI do not support the eradication of Israel. It has the right to exist, it has the right to its homeland, it has the right to self-determination, and I\u2019m here to support that right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Bowman declined the Daily Caller\u2019s request for comment on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Bowman is one of four DSA members currently in Congress, and one of six members in the far-left \u201cSquad.\u201d Two other DSA members, Democratic Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib and Democratic Missouri Rep. Cori Bush, voted against the Iron Dome supplemental appropriation, and a third, Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, voted present. Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar and Democratic Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley, both of whom are members of the \u201cSquad,\u201d but not DSA, voted against the package.<\/p>\n<p>Following Bowman\u2019s initial comments condemning BDS, local DSA groups met with staffers as part of an \u201caccountability process\u201d for the representative, according to the Medium post. The group ultimately told Bowman and his chief of staff that \u201cZionist propaganda events are carefully constructed to validate Zionism by advancing certain narratives that normalize Israeli apartheid and the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from historic Palestine.\u201d Many experts have called comments like these anti-Semitic, because they play on ancient <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/Documents\/AboutUs\/CivilSociety\/ReportHC\/75_The%20Louis%20D.%20Brandeis%20Center%20_Fact%20Sheet%20Anti-Semitism.pdf\">tropes<\/a> of Jews as liars and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.org\/sites\/default\/files\/pdf\/2021-02\/AJC_Translate-Hate-Glossary-2021.pdf\">manipulators<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/31\/jewish-institute-liberal-values-report-on-anti-semitism-in-critical-social-justice\/\"><strong>(RELATED: Think Tank Report Takes Aim At Anti-Semitism Sprouting Up In \u2018Critical Social Justice\u2019)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7328973\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"37\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7328973\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators with the Democratic Socialists of America take part in a rally on International Women\u2019s Day in Manhattan in New York City, New York, U.S., March 8, 2018. REUTERS\/Lucas Jackson<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Iron Dome funding vote, as well as the J Street tour and opposition to BDS, \u201cwere not matters of lacking education, but matters of political calculus,\u201d according to the working group. \u201cAlthough Bowman desires to be good on Palestine, he is not ready to take on the Zionist lobby yet and principally stand by his stated values.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The DSA BDS and Palestine Solidarity Working Group also did not immediately respond to multiple requests for comment from the Daily Caller on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Bowman <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/07\/17\/engel-loses-new-york-primary-jamaal-bowman\/\">defeated<\/a> long-time representative Eliot Engel in a brutal primary fight. Many Jewish and pro-Israel groups <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jns.org\/pro-israel-community-reacts-to-projected-engel-loss-in-new-york-democratic-primary\/\">expressed<\/a> dismay at the loss of Engel, a long-time supporter of Israel, in part due to Bowman\u2019s DSA connections. During the primary, Bowman <a href=\"https:\/\/jacobinmag.com\/2019\/10\/jamaal-bowman-eliot-engel-democratic-party\">claimed<\/a> that Palestine was in the midst of a \u201chumanitarian crisis,\u201d and compared then-Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to \u201cfar-right authoritarian leaders\u201d in \u201cSaudi Arabia, Europe, [and] India.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after winning the general election to his Bronx and Westchester-based seat, Bowman <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/12\/21\/new-york-congressman-jamaal-bowman-slavery-capitalism\/\">claimed<\/a> that American capitalism is \u201cslavery by another name.\u201d He also <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/27\/ocasio-cortez-jamaal-bowman-hysteria-rising-violence-defund-police\/\">supports<\/a> defunding the police.<\/p>\n<p>Due to these other positions, as well as the composition of his district, the call to censure or expel Bowman from DSA has faced push-back from within the organization and among others on the left. Following a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dsausa.org\/statements\/statement-on-jamaal-bowman-and-israel\/\">statement<\/a> from the DSA national organization calling investigating Bowman\u2019s Israel trip its \u201chighest priority,\u201d one DSA official reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/11\/27\/rift-emerges-between-jamaal-bowman-and-democratic-socialists\/\">told<\/a> the New York Post that the group does not have \u201cthe infrastructure or mechanism\u201d to punish the freshman representative.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA knee-jerk response to write off or expel political allies who don\u2019t completely line up with us will confine us to the continued marginality of purity politics,\u201d Hadas Thier, a staff writer at the socialist Jacobin Magazine, <a href=\"https:\/\/jacobinmag.com\/2021\/11\/democratic-socialists-j-street-bds-israel-palestine-iron-dome-aoc\">claimed<\/a>. \u201cIt earns the Left a reputation as those who would rather engage in endless Twitter wars than practical political work.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A working group within the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is calling for the expulsion of Democratic New York Rep. 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