SPLC Won’t Say Whether It Will Designate Left-Wing Groups Supporting Hamas As Hate Groups

[Kamaji]

SPLC Won’t Say Whether It Plans To Designate Left-Wing Groups Supporting Slaughter In Israel As Hate Groups

BY: JORDAN BOYD
OCTOBER 11, 2023

Southern Poverty Law Center refused to tell The Federalist whether it plans to designate as hate groups the left-wing organizations that responded to the murders of more than 1,200 Israelis and 22 Americans at the hands of Hamas by excusing or blatantly ‘standing with’ the terrorists.

The SPLC claims to “monitor hate groups and other extremists throughout the United States,” including many of which it says are “far right” antisemitic organizations. In years past, SPLC largely focused its efforts on tarnishing organizations with Christian missions or conservative ties.

These partisan designations, decried by Republicans and the organizations as smears, were then used by the FBI, Democrats, Big Tech, and woke corporations to investigate and censor the left’s political opponents.

Missing from SPLC’s list of more than 1,200 “hate groups,” however, are the several U.S.-based left-wing organizations invoking language and imagery publicly shrugging off the deadliest assault on Jewish civilians since the Holocaust to stand with the people who perpetrated the attack.

The scenes emanating from Israel over the weekend were brutal. Music festival attendees were either dragged into Gaza as hostages or shot to death at point-blank range. Babies and young children were brutally beheaded, butchered, and burned in their beds. One grandmother’s murder was live-streamed by the terrorists on her Facebook page.

The Democratic Socialists of America, which is affiliated with at least six Democrat U.S. lawmakers, released a statement claiming it was “steadfast in expressing our solidarity with Palestine.” The organization deemed Israel an “apartheid regime” and suggested that Israel should not receive funding for its retaliation.

“We unequivocally condemn the killing of all civilians. It is imperative for international human rights law to be respected,” the DSA continued. “But we cannot forget that the Israeli state has systematically denied Palestinians the right to self-determination for decades. … As socialists, we must act.”

Only one freshman DSA representative condemned the declaration.

Black Lives Matter Chicago did away with the formalities of releasing a statement and instead opted to post a graphic of a Palestine flag affixed to a paraglider, much like the ones Hamas used to enter Israel and begin its massacre.

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Source:  https://thefederalist.com/2023/10/11/splc-wont-say-whether-it-plans-to-designate-left-wing-groups-supporting-slaughter-in-israel-as-hate-groups/

[Kamaji]

Leftist hypocrisy once again.

[PeteS in CA]

My prediction: They won't. Because Prog'ism.

[Maj. Bill Martin]

SPLC is horrible.

[Smokin Joe]

SPLC is horrible.

...and has been for decades.

[goatprairie]

Leftist groups simply refuse to acknowledge that their pets can be evil. If anybody on whoever's side rapes young girls, kills old people, and decapitates babies, they are evil. It's impossible not to say the obvious.
The leftist pigs know that. But saying that what the Palies did was horrific would be giving in to right-wing, pro-Israeli groups. That they simply cannot do. That would take a modicum of integrity.

[Fishrrman]

SPLC...
Most there are communists.
Others there are just hucksters.
Some are both.

[The_Reader_David]

SPLC...
Most there are communists.
Others there are just hucksters.
Some are both.

 

[PeteS in CA]

Being anti-Israel has been Lib/Prog dogma since at least the 1967 War, and Libs & Progs have gradually shown that "anti-Israel" and "anti-Zionist" is simply anti-Semitism. Walking alone on many/most college campuses and certain city neighborhoods while wearing a yarmulke or a beard and wide-brimmed hat has become unsafe, in some places, for a decade or more (e.g. CSU SF).