dramatically and publicly quit DSA <\/a>last month, retailing the right-wing narrative on the organization and predictably winding up covered by Fox News. It would not have surprised most outside observers, right or left, if DSA had backed down after the torrent of slander \u2014 especially given the McCarthyite-like environment in the United States right now when it comes to Palestine, with some supporters of Palestine losing their jobs, Palestinian and other Arabic cultural events being canceled, and the label \u201cantisemitic\u201d being thrown at nearly anyone who objects to Israel\u2019s brutality.<\/p>\nThat would have been a huge mistake. To back down, says Siddique, would have allowed \u201cthe ruling class to use Palestine as a wedge to cow electoral organizing, threaten legislative organizing, and suppress labor organizing \u2014 to even pit them against each other. Instead, we\u2019ve learned from years of struggle how to use them to become stronger.\u201d<\/p>\n
This time, DSA and Palestine have a majority on their side. Since the 9\/11 forever wars, Siddique says, the political situation has dramatically shifted. After 9\/11, there was one single vote in Congress against war: Barbara Lee. Today, Siddique points out, there are many more, \u201cled by DSA and DSA-friendly congress members organizing for a cease-fire\u201d \u2014 something \u201cessentially unimaginable less than ten years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a bleak time for this country and for the world, socialists are suggesting the possibility of a better future, wrought not only of domestic redistribution, but by an end to war and empire. They are taking action in a political landscape that encourages depressed passivity.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am proud to say DSA members are the most united I have ever seen us,\u201d says Siddique. \u201cOur tens of thousands of members coming together from across the country to do anything and everything we can to fight back against the US-funded genocide campaign in Palestine.\u201d<\/p>\n\n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n
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