/r/SquadDemocrats
The r/SquadDemocrats is a grassroots group of progressives in the left wing of the Democratic Party that support Representatives: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, NY-14, Ilhan Omar, MN-5, Ayanna Pressley, MA-7, Rashida Tlaib, MI-13, Jamaal Bowman, NY-16, Cori Bush MO-1, Summer Lee PA-12, Greg Casar TX-35, and Delia Ramirez IL-3 and advocate for progressive policies such as A Green New Deal, Medicare-For-All, abolish ICE, Fed jobs guarantee, housing & healthcare as a human right & many others.
The r/SquadDemocrats is a grassroots group of progressives in the left wing of the Democratic Party that support Representatives: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, NY-14, Ilhan Omar, MN-5, Ayanna Pressley, MA-7, Rashida Tlaib, MI-13, Jamaal Bowman, NY-16, Cori Bush MO-1, Summer Lee PA-12, Greg Casar TX-35, and Delia Ramirez IL-3 and advocate for progressive policies such as A Green New Deal, Medicare-For-All, abolish ICE, Fed jobs guarantee, housing & healthcare as a human right & many others.
/r/SquadDemocrats
All of these groups provide Dems with tax-deductible ways to support voter engagement work in swing districts.
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/voter-turnout-key-districts
I keep hearing examples of the Palestinian people and Hamas being used interchangeably. I understand that the people of Gaza do not want Hamas in power and the majority of its citizens never voted for them. What are the best references to AOC, Tlaib etc pushing for support to oust Hamas? Best tweets or speeches of them criticizing Hamas?
Democrats have a Israel-Palestine problem, and this post attempts to provided evidence-based numbers to help think clearly about that. I'm trying not to insert my opinions here. My goal is that we have reliable info so we can all think about our own opinions with data, not just emotion.
Earlier today (Oct 18) before President Biden departed Israel, he and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu held a press conference.
The Whitehouse provided a transcript, which is here [https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2023/10/18/remarks-by-president-biden-and-prime-minister-netanyahu-of-israel-before-bilateral-meeting-tel-aviv-israel/](https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2023/10/18/remarks-by-president-biden-and-prime-minister-netanyahu-of-israel-before-bilateral-meeting-tel-aviv-israel/)
In his remarks, Netanyahu cited the 1400 Israeli dead on the awful day of October 7, at the hands of the Hamas who staged the "incursion" into Israel.I was struck by Netanyahu's rhetorical construct, in which he compared the number of Israeli dead to Israel's population, and then applied that metric to the US to tell the cameras it would be like someone had suddenly killed 50,000 Americans.
OMG... that's about 2x the city I live in!!
But then I wondered how many Americans would be dead if we were being killed at the same rate as Palestinians in Gaza..... YIKES it comes out to about 12 dead in Gaza for 1 dead in Israel... not counting the soon-to-be dead or the missing. (The source for Gaza dead in the accompanying graphic was the Associated Press, found here [https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-gaza-hamas-war-biden-hospital-d9606e0ead1f8c4e9fd00b602ed14a38](https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-gaza-hamas-war-biden-hospital-d9606e0ead1f8c4e9fd00b602ed14a38)