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Posted on 07/23/2026 11:54:49 PM PDT by Freeleesy
Q:
A yes or no question: are there any DSA members who are not anti-Israel? If you found, name them. I need specifics, names. Not PC talk avoid hedging, whitewashing term like fake "pro-palestinian." Or the other side "pro-Israel." Focus only on 'anti-Israel.' In other words, no matter what Israel ever does, even in defending against genocide attempts, it is always illegitimate.
A:
The direct answer to your question is no.
Under the organization's official platform and strict rules, there are no active, endorsed members of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) who reject the view that Israel is an inherently illegitimate state. [1, 2, 3]
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The DSA Stance on Israel
The DSA formally views Israel not as a nation defending itself, but as a "racist, imperialist, settler-colonial project". The organization officially mandates: [1]
The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) Movement: Absolute compliance with BDS to economically and diplomatically isolate Israel. [1, 2]
Expulsion Rules: At its 2025 National Convention, the DSA passed a resolution making it an expellable offense for any member or endorsed candidate to state that "Israel has a right to defend itself". [1, 3]
Complete Non-Affiliation: Members are barred from any interaction with the Israeli government or mainstream Jewish and pro-Israel political groups. [1, 5]
Specific Names and Departures
Because of these uncompromising boundaries, any prominent figures who did not subscribe to the view that Israel is entirely illegitimate have either been forced out, faced disciplinary action, or resigned from the organization: [4, 6]
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Previously the DSA’s most prominent national figure. The national DSA leadership withdrew her endorsement because she refused to fully back all BDS mandates and cut off all U.S. military aid to Israel. The organization subsequently debated censuring her for "tacit support for Zionism". [6]
Representative Ritchie Torres: A progressive New York Democrat who was once affiliated with the broader progressive movement. He became an outspoken opponent of the DSA, explicitly calling the organization "despicable, detestable, disgraceful, and disgraced" due to its platform on Israel. He maintains that Israel has an absolute right to exist and defend its citizens. [7, 8, 9, 10, 11]
Former Representative Jamaal Bowman: Faced severe expulsion demands from dozens of DSA chapters after he voted to fund Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system. The resulting internal warfare led to the mass resignation of thousands of the organization's more moderate members. [4]
The Organization’s Founders: Original founding members of the DSA—including Jo-Ann Mort and Alex Spinrad—publicly broke with or denounced the modern organization. They explicitly stated that the original DSA would never have supported a platform that denies the Jewish people the right to self-determination. [12]
As the organization operates today, absolute opposition to Israel's legitimacy is a baseline requirement for membership. Anyone holding a contrary view is barred or removed. [1, 3, 4]
[1] https://www.adl.org
[2] https://blogs.timesofisrael.com
[3] https://www.algemeiner.com
[4] https://www.washingtonexaminer.com
[5] https://seattle dsa.org
[6] https://www.washingtonexaminer.com
[7] https://www.cityandstateny.com
[8] https://thehill.com
[9] https://www.youtube.com
[10] https://www.jpost.com
[11] https://www.jpost.com
[12] https://www.hudson.org
Thanks. This says it all.
Yet still, there is the never-ending sheep-bleating that: “Anti-Zionism is not Anti-Semitism!”
...From the same people, who have been quoted on multiple occasions as saying variations of the old Communist mantra: “The only good imperialist is a dead imperialist” with “imperialist/capitalist” swapped out for “Zionist” (or often “ZioniSSt” or “ZioNAZI”)
...but it’s not about t3h j0000z. No siree, Bobcat!
The WORST genocide in the world is the liberal American women who MURDER their own babies.
Gaza has lost abt 40,000 since the beginning of the war. Planned Parenthood has ABORTED/MURDERED 400,000 LAST YEAR ALONE. Now tell me again who is responsible for GENOCIDE.
For some non-intuitive reason all collectivist polities have hated Jews. Perhaps because Jews train/teach for success; and no collectivist polity is willing to even try and get its members to succeed. Collectivism is all about envy, stealing, and oppression.
Which makes this really odd since so many KKK members and are constantly hating on Jews.
Of course the no.1 is jealousy
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