Booker: “I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I’ve been inadequate to the moment. I’ve confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say ‘we will do better.’”

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  • jagged_circle@feddit.nlEnglish
    29·
    1 day ago

    Wtf. Cite every claim. This is the internet.

    Why do you think you wouldn’t need to cite facts here? Gtfo if you think you can spread misinformation

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      12·
      21 hours ago

      I don’t owe you shit, but here you go: https://www.booker.senate.gov/news/press/booker-statement-on-israel-hamas-ceasefire-deal

      From Cory Booker’s own website in regards to the recent ceasefire:

      "The work must continue to achieve a two-state solution that affirms and protects Israel’s right to exist as a democratic Jewish state and ensures the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination and a state of their own.”

      Israel’s right to exist as a democratic Jewish state

      He’s a Zionist. He says right there on his own website that Israel has a right to exist as specifically an ethnonationalist state. That’s what a Zionist is. It’s someone who supports the creation/maintenance of a ethnically/religiously Jewish nation-state in the region of Palestine with Palestinian Arabs either disenfranchised, made a minority, or completely removed. A Zionist supports Israel as a sovereign Jewish homeland with a Jewish identity along with a nation-state apparatus to enforce this status as homeland.

      For further information, please consult CodePink’s anti-zionist website boughtbyzionism.org. Here is the page for Cory Booker:

      https://www.boughtbyzionism.org/cory_booker

      As you see, he’s taken $893,998 from AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which is a Zionist lobbying group.

      Do you want any further citations? Here is an opensecrets.org search for Zionist lobbying money to various politicians. If you are skeptical of opensecrets, it’s used as a unbiased source of information for AP, the Washington Post, Politico, NBC News, NPR, and the New York Times. Opensecrets cites Federal Election Comission data, which is public information.

      https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary?cycle=All&ind=Q05&recipdetail=S

      • axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        141·
        21 hours ago

        yeah like why is it so unbelievable that I call a Democratic politician a Zionist? Zionism is the official party line. What the fuck

        “Hey these Democrats sure do give a lot of money to Israel”

        “UHHH SOURCE?”