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A former CEO with a history of fraud investigations and votes with Matt Gaetz...
He's not progressive, he just pulled a Sinema to get elected.
And this is just a PR grab, he'd already been talking about starting a far right Hindu caucus in the US a few weeks ago. It just didn't get any press, so now he's trying to make it sound like this is why he's doing it.
He was already expelled from his local DSA chapter.
To be clear, it appears that he was expelled for supporting Narendra Modi, not for anything to do with Israel or Palestine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shri_Thanedar#U.S._House_of_Representatives
Good, fuck Modi
Sounds like The Hill has failed at doing basic journalism.
Imagine what you’d have to do to get expelled from the DSA.
No need to imagine. It was for being Narendra Modi's buddy.
The narrative of “the far left is antisemitic” is getting pushed real hard for some reason.
"Moderate" Dems and Republicans love pretending that disliking Israel's political stances and human rights abuses is antisemitic.
It's taking a while, but the voting public is finally starting to call them on that bullshit.
They're not necessarily antisemitic, though I think the far right sees an opportunity there and is actively infiltrating. Horseshoe theory.
But they are definitely anti-Israel (which is fine) and pro-"anyone who fights against Israel" (which is not at all fine).
Sometimes the enemy of my enemy is just another enemy, and the far left doesn't understand that about the Israel-Palestine conflict. Israel and the IDF are both terrible.
Rallying against Israel - cool
Rallying against Jews - not cool (though I don't think this is happening to any serious degree on the far left)
Rallying for Palestinians - cool
Rallying for Hamas - not cool
Was the rally in NYC pro Palestine or pro Hamas? I've been seeing people catch shit for supporting Palestinians as though they were supporting Hamas.
Yeah, I'm calling bullshit that he ever actually supported the group. It was a gambit to make Leftists seem foolish. Shri Thanedar is a moderate and therefore a conservative. Dude's wikipedia page has details that sound fake af too
In 1990, Thanedar took a job working nights and weekends for $15/hour at Chemir/Polytech Laboratories to learn the business. He took out a loan to buy Chemir in 1991 for $75,000.
Somehow, a guy working $15/hr in 1990 had enough financial caché at the bank to get a 75k loan....to buy an entire pharmaceutical company? Also, since when does Wikipedia post such mundane details about someone's life? They typically don't. Seems like he had some PR men who don't understand the internet edit his wikipedia page for him.
Taking an after hours $15/hour job to learn the business means he was checking the place out without committing to leave his day job. Some companies won’t allow interns to work for free either. They had $150,000 in sales the first year which means it was probably a startup. I won’t comment on the rest of your point but a guy that had a PHD by 1984 buying a business in 1991 doesn’t seem weird to me.
Someone is angling for AIPAC funds, it seems.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-Mich.) is revoking his membership in the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) over its promotion of what he said was an antisemitic rally in New York City.
After the brutal terrorist attacks on Israel, which included the indiscriminate murder, rape, and kidnapping of innocent men, women, and children, I can no longer associate with an organization unwilling to call out terrorism in all its forms,” he wrote in a statement Wednesday.
“Sunday’s hate-filled and antisemitic rally in New York City, promoted by the NYC-DSA, makes it impossible for me to continue my affiliation.
The NYC-DSA had reposted a statement on X, the platform previously known as Twitter, promoting rallies against funding for Israel on Saturday, the same day Hamas first infiltrated the nation.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), another member of the DSA, also denounced the rally held in New York City in a statement earlier this week.
It also did not speak for the thousands of New Yorkers who are capable of rejecting both Hamas’ horrifying attacks against innocent civilians as well as the grave injustices and violence Palestinians face under occupation,” she said.
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