cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/47417775
[May 14, 2026 [good article that outlines various (dishonest) approaches by centrist Democratic politicians to Democratic voters’ antipathy to Israel.]
Wendy Sherman, who served as deputy secretary of State under the Biden administration, made headlines in late April when she told Bloomberg that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had “led” the United States down the road to “genocide” in Gaza.
In the next sentence, however, Sherman said that she remained a “strong supporter” of Israel. It marked one of the most blatant examples of a rhetorical strategy widely emerging among Democratic politicians since October 7: using language that validates progressive criticism of Israel — including, now, the word “genocide” — while simultaneously insulating themselves from the charge that they have abandoned Israel.
The longer this continues, the more people will believe that they were complicit in this whole disaster from the beginning. Maybe that was the intent.
The longer this goes on the more low information emotionally childish Republicans will decide “The Jews backstabbed us, we had no idea this awful thing was happening to such a degree!” instead of grappling with how this is fundamentally a product of western colonialism and foreign policy.