Saikat Chakrabarti

I'm calling for sanctions on the leaders of Israel.

We need to be doing everything we can to stop this genocide.

but the thing that we're seeing right now from a lot of politicians and uh this is what state senator scott wiener's been doing as well is they've realized that this has become such a politically toxic issue you know try to say that we should continue sending funds to israel has become so politically toxic that people are starting to change their position uh there's a debate clip that kind of went viral uh from early in our race where you know myself and our my opponents we got asked whether israel is committing genocide in gaza

And myself and Sue Rather Chan said, yes.

And Sandra Wiener, it was like a little paddle that you put up and he just he just didn't answer the question.

Right.

And so he got so much blowback from that that a couple of days later he put out the statement saying, ah, yes, I've come around.

I've decided now that it is, in fact, a genocide.

But then there was reporting just yesterday from Ryan Grim at DropSite that apparently State Senator Scott Weaver is still going out and talking to AIPAC donors, telling them that, yeah, yeah, I'm saying it's a genocide publicly, but I don't actually believe that.

I'm just saying that because I have to say it.

Like, please still give me your money.

So this is like the kind of ridiculous, just hypocritical politics that people are so sick of.

And people say one thing, you know, they just say whatever is politically convenient.

Like, why don't you just look at what's going on in Gaza and have a moral opinion about it?

Right.

And people are tired of it.

Yeah.

And this is what they do on so many issues.

I mean, the things that we actually want to do as progressives, like universal health care, you know, getting rid of corruption and politics, universal child care, taxing the rich.

These are all hugely popular issues.