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Israel/Zionism See other Israel/Zionism Articles Title: Democrat youth wing fires members who criticized Israel’s child killings The College Democrats of America (CDA), the youth wing of the Democratic National Committee, forced two of its members to resign from leadership positions following a right-wing smear campaign this week. They were branded anti-Semites after expressing anger at Israel’s assault on Gaza in a heated social media exchange. Christopher Woodside, a twenty-year-old student at Catholic University of America, says he was fired 6 August from his position as Communications Director with the DC Federation for College Democrats, CDA’s Washington DC branch. Woodside told The Electronic Intifada he was “told we would never receive donations because I made the organization seem radical.” He added, “while I was officially asked to resign by the state level at DC College Dems, it was highly suggested their request for me to leave was from being pressured at the national college Dems level.” Woodside noted that CDA has a pattern of firing its members for dissenting on foreign policy issues. He says he was fired from a national level CDA position in January for criticizing President Obama’s deadly drone policy. The same same day as Woodside, Boston College student Evan Goldstein was forced to resign from his role as CDA’s social media coordinator. Right-wing smear Both Woodside and Goldstein had responded angrily to inflammatory pro-Israel Facebook comments by one Giovanni Hashimoto. Hashimoto, a self-described progressive Democrat who held a leadership role with CDA before taking a position with the California Young Democrats, wrote on his Facebook page on 31 July that Israel is a “peace-loving nation” fighting Palestinian terrorists. At the time of his post, the death toll in Gaza was well over 1,400 with another 8,300 injured, the vast majority civilians. In response to comments by Goldstein, Woodside and several others challenging him, Hashimoto blamed Palestinians for the their own deaths, prompting a heated back-and-forth. Woodside, Goldstein and several others responded angrily to Hashimoto’s increasingly incendiary claims. In response to a comment about the 16 July killing of the Baker boys, the four children massacred by Israel while playing on the beach in Gaza, Hashimoto posted an Israeli army propaganda graphic and said Hamas forced Israel to kill the children. Poster Comment: the Donkey party has always been a Jewish owned party at least since the 1930s. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
#1. To: Horse (#0)
"But Bluto, we're a-scared of these right wing meanies." This is bullshit, it's always politics with these people. The issue here is they are afraid Jewish funding will dry up, but they do not have the fortitude to say so, and are counting on their voters to remain ignorant partisan automatons. corruptissima re publica plurimae leges - Tacitus
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