Läste två gamla texter som Kamala Harris från 2019 och 2020 om hennes relation till AIPAC och Israel överlag (förstår inte hur jag missade dem inför valet) och inser på nåt vis att hoppet att hon skulle vara annorlunda än Biden gällande Palestina var just hopium. Den första artikelns titel är liksom talande i sig "More AIPAC Than J Street’: Kamala Harris Runs to the Right on Foreign Policy" (J Street är en mer sansad pro-israelisk organisation än AIPAC).
https://fpif.org/more-aipac-than-j-street-kamala-harris-runs-to-the-right-on-foreign-policy/
Båda texterna påminner om att bland de första ställningstaganden hon tog som senator var att backa en resolution som kritiserade FNs säkerhetsråd som kallat Israels bosättningar i Västbanken för flagranta brott mot folkrätten (normalt sett ger alltid USA sitt veto mot resolutioner i den stilen i säkerhetsrådet, men Obama avstod från det i just det fallet - en av de bättre sakerna han gjorde). Resolutionen i senaten som Harris backade var framtagen av republikaner och stöttades framförallt av dem, även om några demokrater också joinade. Helt sjukt att inte ens vilja kritisera illegala bosättningar!
2019 så fanns det gräsrotsröster som pressade demokrater att inte vara med på AIPACs årliga konferens, så träffade Harris ändå en delegation privat.... så det känns liksom mest som att allt återupprepade sig i valrörelsen 2024.
Och redan 2020 så skrev det här om Biden/Harris-kampanjen:
"Yet recent polls of Democratic voters paint a more complicated picture. An August
Jewish Insider poll of Massachusetts District 1, where three-decade incumbent Rep. Richard Neal
defeated his younger, progressive challenger Alex Morse, found that a plurality of voters in the district—48%—support conditioning aid to Israel. This is consistent with polls of the Democratic electorate more broadly. A
Data For Progress survey conducted in 2019 found that a net majority of Democratic voters—and a plurality of US voters across partisan lines—support reducing military aid to Israel due to its human rights violations. These polls, combined with the enthusiasm garnered by progressive candidates who stake out more critical positions on Israeli policies, make any return to the bipartisan consensus seem unlikely.
Still, for Palestinian rights advocates, as for many progressives, the Biden-Harris ticket offers a bitter choice. “It saddens me greatly to be put in the position of supporting two people who have not evolved as the Democratic electorate has evolved, who seem frozen in an era that is now part of the past,” said George Bisharat, a Palestinian American legal scholar and professor at UC Hastings in San Francisco. With Harris set to take up the Democratic Party mantle after Biden, who has defined himself as a “transitional figure,” “we could be looking at these very outdated positions on Palestine for the next 12 years,” he continued. “The Democratic leadership has not yet recognized the ground shift underneath them.”
Pundits and activists alike have been quick to eulogize the bipartisan consensus on support for the Israeli government. But if and when a Biden-Harris administration takes office, many of the veterans of past administrations—which have given successive Netanyahu governments a blank check—will almost certainly return to Washington. Obama administration alumni may have spent the last four years
getting rich in political exile, working in private equity and strategic consulting for weapons technology firms, but they are eager to get back to the West Wing. All indications point to a Biden-Harris administration that will exert even less pressure on the Israeli government than the Obama administration did."
https://jewishcurrents.org/restoring-the-bipartisan-consensus
