Abdul El-Sayed offers a template for Democrats to defeat Trumpism

 

 

"In a recent interview, the New Yorker editor, David Remnick, asked El-Sayed whether he supports one or two states in Israel-Palestine. El-Sayed did not take the bait. He replied that his focus was less on “what’s happening there rather than what’s happening here”. His primary concern, he explained, was that the US was allocating money for Israeli weapons that it could be spending on schools in Michigan. While acknowledging: “I believe in equal rights to peace, dignity, and self-determination, for Palestinians and Jewish Israelis alike,” he said: “It is not my job as an American policymaker to decide what the ultimate peace should be. But it is my job to make sure that our resources are stewarded correctly for the people I’m responsible for: those kids going to those broken schools.”

In relentlessly linking US military aid to Israel to unmet needs in the United States, El-Sayed is crafting a progressive version of America First"

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Abdul El-Sayed offers a template for Democrats to defeat Trumpism | Peter Beinart | The Guardian