New York – The Democratic Socialists of America voted to endorse a BDS motion against Israel at their biannual convention in Chicago.
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The vote, which took place on Saturday, passed with 90 percent approval of the 697 delegates from 49 states.
The motion read, in part, “Democratic Socialists of America declares itself in solidarity with Palestinian civil society’s nonviolent struggle against apartheid, colonialism, military occupation and for equality, human rights, and self-determination; Democratic Socialists of America responds to Civil Society’s call by fully supporting BDS… .”
The statement from the resolution was tweeted by an attendee, the Legal Insurrection website reported.
According to its website, The Democratic Socialists of America, or DSA, “is the largest socialist organization in the United States, and the principal U.S. affiliate of the Socialist International. DSA’s members are building progressive movements for social change while establishing an openly democratic socialist presence in American communities and politics.”
The organization also says: “We are socialists because we reject an international economic order sustained by private profit, alienated labor, race and gender discrimination, environmental destruction, and brutality and violence in defense of the status quo.”
“We are socialists because we share a vision of a humane international social order based both on democratic planning and market mechanisms to achieve equitable distribution of resources, meaningful work, a healthy environment, sustainable growth, gender and racial equality, and non-oppressive relationships.”
The organization reports that it has about 25,000 dues-paying members nationwide, up from 8,000 in recent years.
While the movement is not officially associated with Palestinian-American activist Linda Sarsour, DSA is aligned with her, according to the Jerusalem Post. DSA was an official participant in the Women’s March in January 2017, of which Sarsour was a co-organizer, the Post reported.
Typical leftists, supporting a Fascist and terrorist regime (the Palestinian Authority) against a democratic country. The real “crime” that they see Israel having committed is that it is Jewish. I am sure there are Jews in the DSA. Stalin once told a confidant that Western leftists who support the Soviet Union are our “useful idiots.” The Jews among the DSA are the Arab Fascists’ useful idiots.
Look carefully at the photograph, actually examine it, and you’ll see that about half the seats are empty. Photographs are funny that way.
Whats this about the nonviolent Palestinian struggle? I support it too. Is that the struggle Israel opposes??
Since they had already aligned themselves with so-sour I’m not surprised they’d vote against us, but their comment on why they support bds is contradictory to who they are since we are not apartheid & democratic unlike the rest of the middle East nations. But I’m preaching to the choir do I’m going to stop, I just wish I can meet these imbeciles 1 day
Not to worry. Sort of by definition, Socialists do not have any money to invest.