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How the DSA Went From Supporting Israel to Boycotting the Jewish ‘Ethnostate’

MOTION CARRIES

“We were the place to go on the left if you were a socialist and you were pro-Israel,” one former leader of the Democratic Socialists of America recalled. No longer.

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More than anything else, it was the chanting that revealed how radically things had changed.

It was August 5, 2017, the second-to-last day of the Democratic Socialists of America’s national convention at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s campus.

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