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‘Pathetic’: Israeli Minister Threatens to Revoke Citizenship of NAZA Filmmakers
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With all due respect, Democrats shouldn't be offering safe harbor to exiled dissidents: they should be threatening to sanction Israel if it exiles dissidents.
They should be a doing a lot of other things too, but we need to be much clearer with our demands. These people are Israeli, and deserve protection in their own country. I don't think they want to leave, I think they want their country to change.
But Democrats would win support from those who disapprove of the Israeli treatment of Palestinians. It would also force Republicans to take a side.
Once their citizenship is revoked, Israel might expel them. The Democratic proposal would give them an opportunity to come to the US.
I take issue with this framing on multiple levels.
First: our goals should not be to score political points on Twitter: they should be to provide security, dignity, and political rights to the persecuted.
Second, inviting political activists exiled by a country we materially support to the US is like demanding ICE deport foreign nationals to nicer third countries: it misses the point completely. This shouldn't happen. And US lawmakers have the power to stop it, so that's what they should do.
Finally, the current Democratic leadership is Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jefferies. Despite highly visible outliers, this whole premise assumes Democrats want to support human rights in Israel. This is like believing that Trump is working tirelessly to bring Epstein's coconspiritors to justice.
Democrats are more inclined to stop what is happening in Gaza. Remember Trump at one time was thinking of displacing Palestinians in Gaza and making it into a French Riviera.
The NAZA filmmakers do not support Israel's military activities in Gaza. Democrats proposing entry to the US for the filmmakers if their citizenship is revoked would not only win votes from those opposing Israel's military activities in Gaza but provide publicity for the film.
From https://www.timesofisrael.com/gavin-newsom-says-democrats-overwhelmingly-opposed-to-the-current-regime-in-israel/
California Governor Gavin Newsom, a 2028 presidential hopeful, ventured farther than ever in his criticisms of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a weekend interview that delved into the Democratic Party’s relationship with Israel.
“I think it’s overwhelmingly opposed to the current regime in Israel,” Newsom said of the party, in a PBS News Hour interview with Amna Nawaz.