PA-1: Wallace is BDS donor

[Sestak]

Oh great.

Has he donated to the directly or is this some sort of loosely connected bulletin board web thing?

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

Oh great.

Has he donated to the directly or is this some sort of loosely connected bulletin board web thing?

The latter, I think.

[136or142]

This is really no different than the Canadian Government preventing government grants from going to organizations that are anti abortion or anti LGBTQ when the grants have nothing to do with their views on those things.

Any conservative who would oppose Wallace over this should agree that the Canadian government has the right to oppose giving grants to these groups.

[Coldstream]

Even just reading the article makes clear this link is tenuous, and Wallace strongly disavowed any link to BDS.

[Lamda]

Wallace's response.

[Blackacre]

Wallace's response.

As a vehemently anti-BDS Democrat, I'm satisfied with that statement

[KingSweden]

Wallace's response.

A good response

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

Wallace's response.

As a vehemently anti-BDS Democrat, I'm satisfied with that statement

Same

[MAINEiac4434]

Apropos of nothing, that’s a nice logo.

[Ohioguy29]

Chiming in as another BDS hater who's satisfied with his response.

[Chief Justice Keef]

He would've been better off not saying anything. Don't play the Republicans' game.

[Landslide Lyndon]

He would've been better off not saying anything. Don't play the Republicans' game.

Worked like a charm for president Kerry.

[Babeuf]

Oh well. Honestly, whatever he says now his donations show his heart is broadly in the right place so I'll give him a pass on this statement.

[Doimper]

He would've been better off not saying anything. Don't play the Republicans' game.

Worked like a charm for president Kerry.

And Dukakis

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

Oh well. Honestly, whatever he says now his donations show his heart is broadly in the right place so I'll give him a pass on this statement.

Actually, what shows his heart is in the right place is that he swiftly and unambiguously condemned BDS and made it clear that he wasn’t the one who made those donations.  It’s good to know Wallace will not support anti-Semetic hate groups like BDS and will likely be more careful going forward.  In any case, while anecdotal, the fact that both of us were completely satisfied despite clearly having extremely different views on this issue leads me to believe Wallace has more or less nipped this line of attack in the bud, barring any new revelations.

[Chief Justice Keef]

Oh well. Honestly, whatever he says now his donations show his heart is broadly in the right place so I'll give him a pass on this statement.

Actually, what shows his heart is in the right place is that he swiftly and unambiguously condemned BDS and made it clear that he wasn’t the one who made those donations.  It’s good to know Wallace will not support anti-Semetic hate groups like BDS and will likely be more careful going forward.  In any case, while anecdotal, the fact that both of us were completely satisfied despite clearly having extremely different views on this issue leads me to believe Wallace has more or less nipped this line of attack in the bud, barring any new revelations.

It's anti-semitism to protest what is essentially an open-air prison in Palestine and the invasion of Israeli settlements into the West Bank?

[Ohioguy29]

Oh well. Honestly, whatever he says now his donations show his heart is broadly in the right place so I'll give him a pass on this statement.

Actually, what shows his heart is in the right place is that he swiftly and unambiguously condemned BDS and made it clear that he wasn’t the one who made those donations.  It’s good to know Wallace will not support anti-Semetic hate groups like BDS and will likely be more careful going forward.  In any case, while anecdotal, the fact that both of us were completely satisfied despite clearly having extremely different views on this issue leads me to believe Wallace has more or less nipped this line of attack in the bud, barring any new revelations.

[Lord Admirale]

Well, at least he apologized for it. But $300K is A LOT of money.

[America Needs a 13-6 Progressive SCOTUS]

#Unendorsed

[Lord Admirale]

#Unendorsed

Your dogwhistle antisemitism keeps getting more and more prevalent (and disgusting).

[The Mikado]

Apparently, he is also a descendant of the former vice president, Henry A. Wallace.

Not only a descendant, he's Wallace's grandson.

Wallace getting dropped from the ticket in 1944 is one of those great turning points that doesn't get addressed enough. He could very well have been president if FDR had died a few months earlier or if he managed to stay on the 1944 ticket.

[America Needs a 13-6 Progressive SCOTUS]

#Unendorsed

Your dogwhistle antisemitism keeps getting more and more prevalent (and disgusting).

If BDS is antisemitic, then there are a lot of Jewish antisemites in the world.

https://jewishvoiceforpeace.org/boycott-divestment-and-sanctions/jvp-supports-the-bds-movement/

[Ohioguy29]

#Unendorsed

Your dogwhistle antisemitism keeps getting more and more prevalent (and disgusting).

If BDS is antisemitic, then there are a lot of Jewish antisemites in the world.

https://jewishvoiceforpeace.org/boycott-divestment-and-sanctions/jvp-supports-the-bds-movement/

"I have black friends, I can't be racist."

[Citizen (The) Doctor]

#Unendorsed

Your dogwhistle antisemitism keeps getting more and more prevalent (and disgusting).

If BDS is antisemitic, then there are a lot of Jewish antisemites in the world.

https://jewishvoiceforpeace.org/boycott-divestment-and-sanctions/jvp-supports-the-bds-movement/

"I have black friends, I can't be racist."

This is wholly dependent on how integral you view the state of Israel as it currently exists to Jewish identity. I don't think its nearly the same phenomenon as what you're describing.

[Ohioguy29]

I don't think criticism of Israel is inherently anti-semitic. But "some Jews support this too" is a bad argument. And to be clear, I don't oppose BDS just because they're critical of Israel, it's because anti-semitism seems to follow them wherever they go. There's a reason even Noam Chomsky is against them.