Resolution Text:
DSA members – regardless of endorsement status – who are credibly shown to
1. have consistently and publicly opposed BDS and the Palestinian cause (e.g. by denouncing the BDS movement in public interviews; writing public op-eds denouncing the BDS movement; drafting and voting in favor of legislation that suppresses BDS, such as legislation that suppresses speech rights around the right to freely criticize Zionism/Israel and/or the right to boycott; making statements that “Israel has a right to defend itself”; making or endorsing statements or legislation equating anti-Zionism with antisemitism), even after receiving fair and ample opportunity for education about the Palestinian struggle for liberation,
2. be currently affiliated with the Israeli government or any Zionist lobby group(s) such as, but not limited to, AIPAC, J Street, or Democratic Majority for Israel (DMFI), or
3. have knowingly provided material aid to Israel (e.g., voted to provide Israel with material aid; gave direct financial donations of any kind to Israel and/or settler NGOs who carry out the mission of Israeli settlement and Palestinian dispossession/displacement, such as the Jewish National Fund, the Israel Land Fund, the Hebron Fund, and Regavim)
shall be considered in substantial disagreement with DSA’s principles and policies, thereby committing an expellable offense as outlined in Article 3, Section 4 of the DSA Constitution, which states that a member credibly shown to have engaged in any of the above shall “be expelled [by] a two-thirds (⅔) vote of all members of the National Political Committee.”
I can’t find any articles about this online. The resolution to align with BDS was opposed :
Full list of resolutions here https://dsa-lsc.org/2025/08/06/lsc-official-2025-dsa-convention-recommendations/
Kind of scary that it was so close; there’s that many zionists in the dsa?
No, the minority vote aren’t all Zionists. The opposition largely took issue with how the resolution would allegedly handle discipline in the org. I feel like those concerns were largely unfounded/overblown. And the resolution passed anyway.
A lot of people not in DSA seem to just be looking at the title of the resolution and making judgements about its content, without investigating the underlying politics at play.
I’m pretty sure there were 2 resolutions on the subject that differed in ways and means of censure/expulsion/discipline. I’d assume the vast majority of the 40% are not endorsing no action but for the other proposal. I think this is generally the more hard-line resolution.
Unless what I read was wrong then idk
That would make more sense, I wasn’t aware of the second resolution
Yea, I keep seeing this one vote on twitter and couldn’t believe the simple conclusion. Like dsa has faults but I haven’t really met a member that is openly pro Israel. I’ve met people who haven’t formed a complete view, vague pacifism or w/e, bc they are still near the start of the political education but that is different.
Idk the amount of people I’ve seen on twitter it feels like there is a bit of wrecker behavior going on more generally, I’m not accusing you of that to be clear.
Kneejerk reaction from me while being ignorant of the rest of the ballot, I’ll admit to that.
No worries, I wasn’t passing judgement or anything
Theoretically they don’t necessarily have to be zionists, they could just be terminally lib-brained and think that adopting anti-zionism will hurt their electoral strategy or something.
Though sadly it is the case that there exists many liberal zionists who mistakenly believe that there could exist a progressive Israel which isn’t based on ethnic cleansing and genocide, and they don’t want to go full anti-Israel because they support this imaginary unattainable state.
We have to vote Hitler away by forming an alliance with progressive voices in the Nazi Party
Yeah apparently. Or at least Liberals who are willing to do genocide compromise so they can pretend to be socialists.