A founding member of the Democratic Socialists of America, who spent decades in the organization, has cut ties with it after its response to Hamas terror attacks.
Democratic Socialists of America founding member Maurice Isserman announced Monday he is leaving the organization for its response to Hamas’ terrorist attack on Israeli civilians. Isserman, who is still described on the socialists’ website as a founding member of DSA penned a piece for The Nation headlined, 'Why I Just Quit DSA.
' Isserman, who is a professor at Hamilton College, said the toolkit advocated 'confrontation by any means necessary' including 'armed struggle.' 'As for those killed on October 7,' Isserman wrote, 'the authors explained matter-of-factly, ‘Settlers are not ‘civilians’ in the sense of international law, because they are military assets used to ensure continued control over stolen Palestinian land.
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