Progressives acknowledging the fact of genocide is a good first step, and it’s useful that Ocasio-Cortez and others have done so — “I think [unconditional aid to Israel] enabled a genocide in Gaza,” she said in Munich — but it is not in and of itself sufficient. Before anyone in the party can move on to selling a post-Biden vision of human-rights-first foreign policy, they must address what accountability for the war criminals in the Biden administration — those who aided, armed, and funded genocide — should look like.

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    So you’re saying if the Democrat party doesn’t achieve the level of purity you desire, then you’re fine allowing a party demonstrably worse (in every conceivable way) to maintain control of our lives and our futures?

    Pardon me, but that sounds unbelievably stupid.

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      What other populations are you willing to sacrifice? Why stop at “just” Palestinians? Should I also make allowances for transphobia and homophobia? What if they promise to just keep helping me as a white man, but decide we can sacrifice other minority communities on the altar of liberalism? No. Either equality for all, or for none.