The co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) group is receiving sharp backlash for saying on Friday that the Hamas-led Oct.7 massacre in Israel was mostly "inevitable."During an interview with The New Yorker’s David Remnick, DSA co-chair Megan Romer was questioned about democratic socialist Darializa Avila Chevalier, who attended an anti-Israel, pro-Hamas rally the day after the Oct.
7 terrorist attack in 2023, and was pressed on whether she would have attended if she were in her position."You would have gone to that rally, had you been able?" Remnick asked."That’s a good question.I probably would have," Romer replied.
"Yeah, yeah.I don’t live in New York City, so I wouldn’t have —"BERNIE SANDERS, DSA REVEAL DEMANDS FOR DEM PARTY AFTER SOCIALISTS SWEEP NEW YORK ELECTIONSMegan Romer told "The New Yorker" she would have attended the pro-Hamas rally and called the October 7 attacks "largely inevitable" in a viral interview.
(Getty Images)Remnick pressed further, asking, "One day after the slaughter of 1,200 people and taking of over 200 hostages, you would have come and rallied behind Hamas?""I think that Oct.7 was largely inevitable," she replied.
"If you put people in an open-air concentration camp and you deprive them of rights, of dignity, of food, of the ability to live in safety, you have to expect that they are going to not take that for that long.And that is not defending any harm of civilians or of non-combatants —"When Remnick accused her remark of being an expression of support for the violence, she pushed back and said "I’m saying that I think it was inevitable."Pro-Israel groups condemned her comments."I agree with DSA Co-chair Megan Romer that the October 7 attacks were in many ways inevitable — but not for the libelous reasons she cited," Zionist Organization of America National President Morton A.
Klein told Fox News Digital."When Gazans elected Hamas - a terror organization whose charter calls for murdering every Jew...