Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. (Photo: William B. Plowman/NBC/NBC NewsWire/Getty Images)
In recent days the left has expressed keen disappointment that star progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, an author of the Green New Deal and member of the DSA, went soggy on Palestine, offering an empty speech about people’s rights and refusing to criticize Israel in an interview with a leader of the Israel lobby.
When just three years ago, AOC called Israel’s killings of nonviolent Palestinian protesters in Gaza a “massacre.”
We’ve seen this movie before. Last December then-Georgia Senate candidate Raphael Warnock did a video with an Israel lobby group in order to walk back criticisms of Israel he’d made at the pulpit– notably his description of that 2018 massacre –– “We saw the government of Israel shoot down unarmed Palestinian sisters and brothers like birds of prey.” Now Warnock condemned the BDS campaign targeting Israel and pledged to keep the military aid fl
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Rep. Nikema Williams of Georgia and RWDSU President Stuart Appelbaum visit the Amazon Fulfillment Center in Birmingham, Alabama, after meeting with workers and organizers involved in the facility s unionization effort, March 5, 2021. (Megan Varner/Getty Images/JTA)
JTA A historic union battle in Bessemer, Alabama, could result in the country’s first organized Amazon warehouse – and it has thrust a longtime Jewish union leader back into the spotlight.
Stuart Appelbaum is president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, which represents more than 60,000 workers in retail, food and warehouse jobs nationwide. The union, known as RWDSU, is vying to represent the nearly 6,000 warehouse workers in Amazon’s Bessemer fulfillment center, and Appelbaum, who has led the union for more than two decades, has been a constant presence in the town and in the media during the months-long union vote.
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The next major Jewish action is on behalf of Uighurs April 6, 2021 10:39 am Protesters against China s policies toward the Uighurs demonstrate outside United Nations headquarters in New York City, March 22, 2021. The protester in the foreground is wearing a kippah. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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(JTA) When Rayhan Asat attended a Passover seder last month, its contours seemed familiar and different at once especially the tradition of leaving a seat empty at the table.
It reminded Asat, a lawyer, of leaving a seat empty for her brother, Ekpar, at her graduation from Harvard Law School in 2016. Ekpar, a member of China’s Uighur minority, had been disappeared by the Chinese government.
Meet the longtime Jewish labor activist going up against Amazon in Alabama April 6, 2021 11:04 am Rep. Nikema Williams of Georgia and Stuart Appelbaum, president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, visit the Amazon Fulfillment Center in Birmingham, Ala., after meeting with workers and organizers involved in the facility s unionization effort, March 5, 2021. (Megan Varner/Getty Images)
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(JTA) A historic union battle in Bessemer, Alabama, could result in the country’s first organized Amazon warehouse – and it’s thrust a longtime Jewish union leader back into the spotlight.
Stuart Appelbaum is president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, which represents more than 60,000 workers in retail, food and warehouse jobs nationwide. The union, known as RWDSU, is vying to represent the nearly 6,000 warehouse workers in Amazon’s Bessemer fulfillment center, and Appelbaum, who has led the union for more than