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I can't tell if this is naivete, or simply blind establishment left MSNBC/CNN bias. The establishment left is trying to stifle descent on the question of Israel and an anti-semitism moral panic is a useful cudgel toward that end. The protests had been almost entirely peaceful and the purported antisemitic nature of the chants both overblown and misrepresented. "From the river to the sea" being a perfect example. Establishment Dems are terrified of being branded as the anti-Israel party by AIPAC and major donors. AIPAC is spending upwards of $100M this election cycle to unseat anyone who's remotely voiced even the slightest opposition to Israel's conduct in Gaza. So it's not about "policing" anyone, it's about signaling to the pro-Israel special interest groups.What's going on on the left is that there is a good mix of antisemitic nuts among the protest movement, and a lot of the mainstream left is trying to police the coalition boundaries by signaling opposition to that. That's a good goal. The mainstream right hasn't done that to the same extent (and is trying to play up the interfactional conflict on the left), and the antisemitic right is comfortably part of the broader coalition as a result. But when even people who voted for the bill are calling it out as bullshit, I think there's no chance at all of it actually passing.
I think really following what is going on here requires a level of attention that most sane people just don't want to pay to politics. But the upshot is that it's nothing that really matters.
And yeah, Evangelicalism is an absolute cancer on the planet.
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