[Peace-discuss] If Not Now: Why should all progressives #SkipAIPAC?

[Robert Naiman]

This video is very strong. It's all Jews who went to the AIPAC policy
conference in the past when they believed that it was an automatic Jewish
community thing, who stopped going when they realized that it was a project
to promote racist violence, and who are now calling on all progressives not
to go.

Last year, MoveOn called on all Dem POTUS 2020 candidates to skip the AIPAC
policy conference, and they all did. But Nancy Pelosi went, and she gave a
keynote address in which she said nobody is going to put daylight between
Dems and Israel. Nancy Pelosi is not representative of current Dem opinion
on this at all. This is not where the majority of Dems are.

So we're potentially at a corner of history now, with Bernie the Dem
frontrunner, who again last night in the CNN town hall in Nevada said
clearly: it's not enough to be "pro-Israel." U.S. policy needs to be
balanced, and we need to protect Palestinian lives. And everybody in the
audience thought that was great, including the American from Israel with
relatives in Israel who asked the question. That's where Dems are. That's
not where Nancy Pelosi is.

So maybe we could put real pressure on Nancy Pelosi and House Dems to skip
the AIPAC policy conference this time. That would be world-historical. It
would change outcomes in Congress, if House Dems weren't so terrified of
AIPAC, like frightened children.

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https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=484677035556483

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https://twitter.com/IfNotNowOrg/status/1229495837044224000
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