by Joe Allen, Rebel, April 29, 2024 https://www.rebelnews.ie/2024/04/29/from-protest-to-resistance . . . The widening gap between the Democratic Party’s liberal and pro-Israel leadership and a large minority of population and majority of Democratic Party voters is reaching Vietnam War—era <https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/07/us/07mcnamara.html?_r=1> proportions. ... . . . A hairline fracture has appeared in the traditional “lesser evil” approach taken to U.S. elections by the U.S. left in support of the Democratic Party, that has derailed, corrupted, and repressed a broad spectrum of movements of the working class and oppressed for the past century. ... . . . In fact, it has been the scale of Israeli violence <https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/25/world/middleeast/gaza-mass-grave-nasser-hospital.html> in Gaza and on the West Bank, and police violence here that have propelled the Pro-Palestine movement forward. This has led writer and activist Naomi Klein to call for an exodus from the false idol of Zionism. She wrote <https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/24/zionism-seder-protest-new-york-gaza-israel> recently:
“Meanwhile, in this city (New York), the universities call in the NYPD and barricade themselves against the grave threat posed by their own students daring to ask them basic questions, such as: how can you claim to believe in anything at all, least of all us, while you enable, invest in and collaborate with this genocide? The false idol of Zionism has been allowed to grow unchecked for far too long. So tonight we say: it ends here.” The political and academic establishment appears to be hoping that the clock will run out, the campuses will close at the end of the school year, and students will go home. But, I don’t know anyone who believes that to be true. ... . . . There is a barely concealed panic emanating from the Democratic Party establishment about the potential size and political impact of pro-Palestine protest at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago scheduled for August. For example, Kim Foxx, the State’s Attorney for Cook County (that includes Chicago), recently told <https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/04/26/editorial-kim-foxx-democratic-national-convention-protesters/> the *Chicago Tribune* that her office’s long standing policy of not prosecuting peaceful protestors for criminal violations would be revised in light of the upcoming DNC. The reactionary *Chicago Tribune* was relieved to hear this, but this should be a warning to the rest of us. # # # -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#30322): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/30322 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/106083835/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
