trans people on tumblr celebrating an absolutely rabid zionist being elected to congress simply because she is a trans woman and then utterly shouting down anyone who mentions it is incredibly fucking embarassing.
genuinely losing my faith at an exponential rate in a lot of the people on this website which sucks because i thought it was the last bastion of online progressive principles. and now i’m realizing it’s kind of just woke reddit.
Delaware Congressional candidate Sarah McBride casts herself as a staunch supporter of Israel
providing a source before i get mobbed
Blunt Rochester has previously been supportive of legislation by Rep. Betty McCollum (D-MN) in favor of placing restrictions on U.S. aid to Israel, one of a series of policy positions that have sometimes placed Blunt Rochester at odds with members of the state’s pro-Israel community, even as they’ve maintained a relationship. McBride, however, told JI she wouldn’t be supportive of legislation like the McCollum bill.
McBride emphasized that federal law already contains protections to ensure that U.S. aid “shouldn’t be used in ways that contradict our values,” and voiced “serious concerns about any policy that would single out Israel and treat it differently than other countries that we support through foreign aid” or hold it “to a different standard.”
Disputes between allies, she continued, “are best handled within our existing relationship.” She expressed support for the continued fulfillment of the 2016 Memorandum of Understanding for U.S. military aid to Israel.
McBride described the “special relationship” between the U.S. and Israel as “a bedrock of America’s national security and our global values” and as rooted in the U.S. and Israel’s “shared values” and “common goals of global security.”
“I believe it’s a critical relationship. It’s one that I will certainly work in Congress to continue to protect,” she continued. “And I believe that it sits right at the heart of our values as a democratic nation.”
[…]
McBride also expressed her support for the Abraham Accords, highlighting the bipartisan support for the agreements across multiple administrations. She said the Accords could “underpin a future two-state solution” and support regional security for Israel and other nations. Expanding the Accords to include an agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia, she continued, would be a “significant step forward.”
She said she broadly supports Biden’s foreign policy agenda, which “strikes the right balance of promoting America’s values, advancing America’s interests, and expanding peace and security around the world” — a characterization that she extended to Biden’s handling of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
To address Iran’s nuclear program, which McBride described as an “existential risk” to Israel and security throughout the region, McBride supports a new nuclear deal, ideally one without sunsets, with strong inspection requirements “and other components to ensure that it’s robust as possible.”so yes, she is a Joe Biden-level zionist who has received money from Pro-Israel PACs. more of the same on the Israel front. if anything, more aggressive than the average House member.
She’s a horrible person, yes. Anyone who says otherwise either doesn’t understand what Israel is doing or actively supports the genocide. The fact that we’ve elected a trans person into Congress is FANTASTIC and has HUGE implications for the future of the trans community, that cannot be downplayed.
The fact that she supports genocide also shouldn’t be downplayed and it’s utter bullshit that people are refusing to acknowledge it.