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Rep. Ritchie Torres: Democratic Socialists are indoctrinating young Americans with anti-Israel hate in moral monstrosity

By Ritchie Torres

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Oct 7 is a day that will live in infamy as the most gruesome terrorist attack in the history of the Jewish State.

Thousands of Israelis were murdered, raped, tortured, and abducted as hostages. Ten percent of the members of an Israeli kibbutz, Kfar Asar, were massacred.

About 260 young Israelis partying at a music festival were gunned down. Babies were butchered, burned and beheaded.

The ONLY morally acceptable response to such incomprehensible terror is overwhelming outrage at the boundless barbarism of Hamas.

While most of the civilized world, led by President Biden, rightly recoiled in horror at Hamas and condemned its terrorism immediately and unequivocally, Israels ideological enemies here in the US found cause for celebration at the sight of dead Jews.

Imagine, for a moment, the inconsolable grief of a Jewish mother whose baby has been butchered to death. Could you imagine anything more callous and cruel than telling that grieving mother: You had it coming. You and your people brought the terror upon yourselves.

Those were the shocking sentiments of the New York City-Democratic Socialists of America (NYC-DSA), which wasted no time in holding a hate rally romanticizing the terrorism of Hamas as resistance.

The DSA was hardly alone in blaming the victims of terrorism rather than the terrorists themselves.

Something is rotten in the state of America. When the institutional leaders in our country cannot condemn the cold-blooded murder of Israeli children and civilians with moral clarity, one must ask: what kind of society are we becoming?
What does the silence and indifference and cowardice from these so-called leaders tell us about the depth of anti-Semitism in America and the reckoning required?

The time has come to confront not only the symptoms but the disease: a Democratic Socialist industrial complex that indoctrinates young Americans with an anti-Israel hatred so virulent that it renders them indifferent to the deadliest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.

Anti-Israel extremism, which has been given a veneer of mainstream respectability in law schools and legislatures, is aided and abetted by the sheer spinelessness of so-called leaders from public officials to the presidents of colleges and universities.

Days of silence were often followed by words of cowardice, if there were any words at all.

Northwestern University, for example, said it had no plans to put out a statement officially stating a University position. Imagine that: a university that cannot be bothered to take a position on a pogrom against Jews. Have we learned nothing from the long and ugly history of Anti-Semitism?

There is nothing accidental about the disregard for Israeli life that revealed itself in the wake of Oct. 7. The dehumanization of Israeli victims follows inevitably from the hyperbolic and systematic demonization of Israel itself.

Anti-Israel hate and hysteria have been allowed to fester freely in academia, social media, the political arena, and elsewhere. It has been propagated by Astroturf activists and academics, amplified by their enablers in elected office, and subsidized by government and civil society.

When people are made to believe the most dangerous lies about Israel that Israel is the root of all evil on earth; that it is a 75-year occupation that must be wiped off the map from the river to the sea; that Israelis are not civilians but settlers who can be fairly targeted for resistance; that Israelis are committing genocide and ethnic cleansing against the Palestinians and harvesting their organs and using the blood of their children; that Israel is always the aggressor and Hamas always the resister: when you tell so many lies and incite so much hate, what do you think will happen?

How do you think the believers internalizing these lies will respond to the savage slaughter of Israelis? This is a moral monstrosity made in America, and one that America must unmake.

The anti-Israel hate increasingly possessing the American mind is a demon that must be exorcised from our body politic. For America cannot long remain a decent society if the next generation of Americans are made to be indifferent to the barbaric butchering of Israeli civilians and children.

I, for one, stand with Israel as it seeks to defend itself. Despite the profound pain of the present, Israel will emerge from it all better and stronger than ever before.

It will outlive the pernicious lies and the dangerous demagogues who tell them. It will outlive the extremism of the DSA and BDS. It will outlive the terrorism of Iran and its proxies, Hamas and Hezbollah.

Israel will live on for the next 75 years and beyond. Resilience is the DNA and destiny of the Jewish people and the Jewish State. It always has been and always will be. I am as certain of that as I am of anything. Am Yisrael Chai.

Ritchie Torres is a Democratic congressman representing The Bronx

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"Excuse me, the IDF said it was actually Hamas that blew up their own hospital! Now get out of the way of our approval to bomb more hospitals!"

Your brain on Zionism

Oof

Notice he did the fascist propaganda trick.

He found an outlying Cornell professor, took the bare bones of a quote without context (I don't know if the context makes it better or worse but it's missing), and then saddled the entire left with it.

Garbage corporate Democrat being a garbage corporate Democrat? You don't say.

If we wanted this shit we'd vote Republican.

He can go fuck himself along with the Israeli government

He can go shove a missile up his ass

All they have is identity politics

Cool, now let's see him defend IDF murdering countless members of the press.

Torgo posted...

Notice he did the fascist propaganda trick.

He found an outlying Cornell professor, took the bare bones of a quote without context (I don't know if the context makes it better or worse but it's missing), and then saddled the entire left with it.

You mean like people have done w/ some idiot right-wing professor in Israel that's never served in its government or military (besides I assume the mandatory conscription), to tell me that it's official Israeli policy to nuke everything around it if it gets invaded?

streamofthesky posted...

You mean like people have done w/ some idiot right-wing professor in Israel that's never served in its government or military (besides I assume the mandatory conscription), to tell me that it's official Israeli policy to nuke everything around it if it gets invaded?

LOL if you think it's just some "right wing professor" in Israel that believes that. Plenty of settlers believe that they're entitled to Palestinian land because their holy book said so. Not to mention the NPC politicians repeating "Israel has a right to defend itself" ad nauseum whenever it engages I atrocities.

ClayGuida posted...

Cool, now let's see him defend IDF murdering countless members of the press.

He'll put his head in the sand for that.

Evol posted...

Ritchie Torres is a Democratic congressman representing The Bronx

He's a fucking jerkoff asshole who represents nobody.

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Nobody is hating Israelis. It's the Israeli state Government. Wtf

Took me a second to realize he's a Democrat too. What the.

The ONLY morally acceptable response to such incomprehensible terror is overwhelming outrage at the boundless barbarism of Hamas.

Sure. That doesn't mean genociding the Palestinian people is suddenly okay. That just shows the Israeli government is every bit is barbaric as those terrorists, if not more so, and just as deserving of outrage.

This type of Democrat is the absolute worst. All weaponization of the forms of moral outrage and social justice language with none of the socialism or the justice.

I guess Israel's documented history of human rights abuses is just socialist propaganda too huh?

hockeybub89 posted...

I guess Israel's documented history of human rights abuses is just socialist propaganda too huh?

No you see Hamas also made them forcibly sterilize African refugees somehow.

So did the baby murder happen?

Does he not realize that it's possible for people to think that both the Israeli government and the Hamas are nothing but a bunch of monsters wearing human skin?

Srk700 posted...

Does he not realize that it's possible for people to think that both the Israeli government and the Hamas are nothing but a bunch of monsters wearing human skin?

No, because that would fly in the face of tribalism (the bedrock of US politics).

Dark_Arbron posted...

No, because that would fly in the face of tribalism (the bedrock of politics).

FIFY. It's not a phenomenon unique to the US.

Literally who

Xenogears15 posted...

FIFY. It's not a phenomenon unique to the US.

Like everything else, its significantly magnified in the US, at least among developed countries. We dont make our party an element of our being (registered R or D) in Australia. We dont even place much cult-like emphasis on the leader, but rather vote for the party itself. We also tend not to fly flags bearing our prime ministers name.

Like him and Jeffries never advocate for black ppl this hard. Just saying.

Xenogears15 posted...

FIFY. It's not a phenomenon unique to the US.

a lot of other countries have more then 2 political parties which makes everyone less tribalistic since you have more then 2 choices, the US has a very us vs them mentality

It. Is. Not. Necessarily. Antisemitic. To. Criticize. The. Israeli. Government.

jumi posted...

It. Is. Not. Necessarily. Antisemitic. To. Criticize. The. Israeli. Government.

You don't need the "necessarily", that gives them an inch they don't need. It is not antisemitic to criticize the Israeli government, or Israel.

There's very few out there that seem to hate socialists as much as Democrats. This dude is using rhetoric that's completely indistinguishable from dumb fuck conservative politicians

Torgo posted...

Notice he did the fascist propaganda trick.

He found an outlying Cornell professor, took the bare bones of a quote without context (I don't know if the context makes it better or worse but it's missing), and then saddled the entire left with it.

Or, as I like to call it, he pulled a Tucker Carlson.

On a tangential note, we need to screenshot this for posters that complain about CE never criticizing democrats

It's insane that people keep telling us we should cheer for genocide.

Hopefully this causes others to primary him.

ClayGuida posted...

Hopefully this causes others to primary him.

Not gonna happen.

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Of course he endorses it. He used to cheerlead for him on 261