What’s that about a revolution eating its young? The True Believers — deeply pro-Hamas, ardently anti-Israel, and it goes without saying, unshakably antisemitic — who belong to Within Our Lifetime (WOL), will be satisfied with nothing less than the disappearance of Israel and its replacement by a 23rd Arab state. They have now turned on one of the original squadroons, ex-bartender Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, whose savage criticism of Israel hasn’t been nearly savage enough for the likes of WOL. More on the fury they are now directing at her can be found here: “Antisemitic Pro-Palestine Group Set To Protest Alexandria-Ocasio Cortez at Rally,” by Corey Walker, Algemeiner, June 21, 2024:
Within Our Lifetime (WOL), headed by Nerdeen Kiswani and Fatima Mousa, staged a protest on June 22, during the appearance of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY at an open-air rally at St. Mark’s Place, where she was trying to drum up support for Jamaal Bowman, who is 17 points behind his Democratic primary rival, George Latimer. Congressman Bowman is even more anti-Israel than AOC; he has accused the Jewish state of “ethnic cleansing” and “genocide,” and now he wants the Biden administration to cut off all weapons support to Israel while that country is fighting a four-front war.
Despite Ocasio-Cortez’s longtime antagonism towards Israel, WOL said that the congresswoman has not shown sufficient support for the Palestinian cause. In particular, the organization takes umbrage with Ocasio-Cortez over her decision to support President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign amid a so-called “genocide” in Gaza….
The Within Our Lifetime fanatics are prepared to see Biden — in their view “Genocide Joe” — lose the election. Their support goes only to those who, like themselves, want nothing less than the destruction of the Jewish state. The others — AOC, Jamaal Bowman, Bernie Sanders — are “sellouts” according to WOL, for they haven’t yet gone that far, though it could be argued that Bowman’s demand for a cutoff of all American military aid to Israel is equivalent to calling for that country’s destruction.
June 22 has come and gone. AOC and Bernie Sanders held their rally in support of Jamaal Bowman at St. Marks Place; 300 people attended. Outside the rally, and held back from surging into it by the police, 150 WOL protesters screamed their rage against AOC, Sanders, and Bowman. They accused AOC of providing “progressive cover” for Israel’s military operations in Gaza. They called her a Zionist “sellout.” They fixed the same epithet on Bernie Sanders and Jamaal Bowman: both of them “sellouts,” despite accusing Israel of “genocide” and calling for a cut in aid to the Jewish state.
Occasio-Cortez [sic] harshly denounced the antisemitic protest, much to the ire of many anti-Israel activists.
“The callousness, dehumanization, and targeting of Jews on display at last night’s protest outside the Nova Festival exhibit was atrocious,” she said on Twitter/X.
Now the war is well and truly on, between the extreme anti-Israel fanatics of WOL and three well-known politicians who are in the anti-Israel camp, but apparently not sufficiently so for the members of WOL, who now describe all three as “sellouts.” To wit, these are: Jamaal Bowman, only a little less extreme than WOL in his anti-Israel animus; the willing-to-allow-Israel-to-live-on-sufferance Bernie Sanders, and the occasionally reasonable squadroon AOC, who has even, once or twice, condemned antisemitism.
In 1934, Hitler sent his jackbooted killers to murder Ernst Röhm, the head of the Stormabteilung (SA), or Stormtroopers, and his henchmen, in what entered history as the Night of the Long Knives. Mao Zedong in 1930 accused his rivals in the Communist Party of belonging to the Kuomintang intelligence agency, the “Anti-Bolshevik League,” and had many of them executed. And Stalin, of course, had Sergei Kirov, head of the party in Leningrad, and a popular figure who dared on occasion to stand up to Iosif Vissarionovich, assassinated in 1934, and following the purge trials in the 1930s, Stalin had most of the remaining Old Bolsheviks executed.
The internecine warfare in the anti-Israel camp of the saints has now begun. Pull up a metaphorical chair, and watch as the war of words — between WOL and Jamaal Bowman, WOL and AOC, WOL and Bernie Sanders — heats up. Hope, for Israel’s sake, that it does not stop within our lifetime.
Rick Gordon says
It may be my age, but I have less patience with people who ‘hate’ – especially those who exhibit nothing but sheer ignorance and disrespect for others. People and groups such as this prey on others – especially younger folks who may not have the perspective to fight back against hate speech.
Rarely says
To quote 1960’s satirist Tom Lehrer: “There are people who do not love their fellow human beings and I hate people like that”.
somehistory says
When photos of aoc are taken, she has two faces….one is mouth wide open spouting lies and nonsense; the other one is a face showing anger.
Miserable people produce misery for others; and those *elected*…or like aoc, selected (by the young turks) to rule over us, make life miserable and are proud of that fact. Reminds me of a verse
Judges 9:15 ” “The thornbush said to the trees, ‘If you really want to anoint me king over you, come and take refuge in my shade; but if not, then let fire come out of the thornbush and consume the cedars of Lebanon!’”
Palestinian Red Crescent Society says
“Judges 9:15 ” “The thornbush said to the trees, ‘If you really want to anoint me king over you, come and take refuge in my shade; but if not, then let fire come out of the thornbush and consume the cedars of Lebanon!’””
How is that relevant to the article?
Wellington says
The Left eating its own. Rather like Muslims eradicating other Muslims for being improperly Muslim, and which has been occurring since the 7th century.
A la Martha Stewart, all this is a good thing.
If one adheres to a warped ideology, danger can come not only from without but from within. The Night of the Long Knives (June 30th, 1934) in Nazi Germany, among so many other examples that could be cited, validates this contention.
Paul says
As Douglas Murray has often said, “They are not immigrants, they are an invasion!” And, to give us another heads-up, they say that they will be imposing sharia law on us as well. If there was any reason for a war, this is it. The difference is, we can stop them coming in and reduce the threat! They have no right to change our country, only to join it in common cause and what they are proposing is not common cause. It is a take over. The British PM has the right idea – deporting them.
Rufolino says
If the British PM had “the right idea- deporting them”, he has not put this idea into practice & nothing has changed, except for a continual increase in numbers arriving !
That is why he will lose this coming General Election.
James Lincoln says
Rufolino,
Correct.
Words need to be followed by actions.
John Pepple says
I read a few years ago about an Iranian-American who went to Iran and for some reason was arrested. Eventually, he got out, but he said that he had tried to placate the authorities by talking of how much he admired Noam Chomsky, who is very pro-Palestinian. They were not at all impressed; apparently, Chomsky was nowhere near pro-Palestinian enough for them. I think the guy also mentioned Edward Said, and it was the same thing: not pro-Palestinian enough.
gravenimage says
Plus Chomsky is Jewish (no matter how nominally), so that would not impress the Mullahs favorably…
OLD GUY says
No not another Alphabet group. W.O.L. Within Our Life, supported by which hate monger bank account.
Who is supporting and funding this hate group?
Seems like supporting HATE and ISLAM go hand in hand.
Naja says
I did a bit of investigating and apparently Bowman is a Muslim, (his face book) He is in Government, which is already a big problem in the UK. I was glad to see that the locals are starting to get the Muslims out of our Government. Melanie Phillips, in her book, Londonistan, written 2 decades ago, said that she wrote the book for Americans because it was already too late for the UK. I’ve been watching Muslims get into office in many areas in the US, as Meanie Phillips predicted. We need to do more of that. I was surprised when Dr. Oz lost his election, even with Trump endorsement, but again, a bit of investigating showed that he too was a Muslim. It is important that we make sure we’re not voting Muslims into government positions in the US. They hide the fact. Taquiya.
Naja
gravenimage says
A bit of good news:
“Rep. Jamaal Bowman, a vocal Israel critic and ‘squad’ member, loses primary”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/jamaal-bowman-george-latimer-ny-house-primary-results-rcna158487
George Latimer is described as “broadly supportive of Israel since the attack”–certainly *not* true of the unhinged antisemitic Jamaal Bowman.