Saikat Chakrabarti
@saikatc
Working on solutions as big as the problems we face.
Joined May 2009
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Mainstream media pundits constantly ask progressives if they swear allegiance to Israel, and then try to claim progressives are making everything about Israel. It's maddening.
We just want to fund healthcare, housing and education and not fund genocides and endless wars.
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Abdul El-Sayed is asked on MSNOW if he is worried that his anti-Zionist messaging "echoes an old antisemitic trope"
Abdul: "The idea that somehow we are going to use the spectre of antisemitism to defend what a foreign government is doing, does a deep disservice to the well-being of Jewish Americans in this country."
Jackie Alemany: "You haven't made that same tradeoff argument with regards to other items in the US's 800 billion dollar defense budget"
Abdul: "Oh I have, you just don't cover it. No, No, No. I have. You just don't cover it. I'll say the same thing about the money we send to Egypt, which is where my family comes from. So if you want to go ahead and call me anti-Egyptian, go ahead and do that"
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