Exclusive | Power-hungry DSA vows to break US-Israel relationship, ignores cost of living issue in first meeting since midterms

In their first national meeting since Election Day, power hungry socialist leaders — including three newly elected “Squad” members of Congress — ignored populist issues such as cost of living, trumpeting instead their radical plans to “break the US-Israel relationship” and disrupt ICE.On a Thursday night mass call by the Democratic Socialists of America dubbed “The socialist surge: DSA, the midterms and beyond,” six winning candidates and national DSA leaders gloated that the organization just had its “biggest election ever.”“We’ve quadrupled our presence in Congress,” exclaimed national DSA Co-Chair Ashiq Saddique, wearing a black and orange “Democratic Socialists” soccer jersey with the words “Solidarity Forever” on the collar.“Millions of people voted for socialists,” he gushed.

Instead of focusing on affordability issues that helped propel Democrats into office in Tuesday’s “blue tsunami,” the DSA jumped straight into ideological and geopolitical debates like Israel-Palestine, declaring it was planning a human arms embargo, despite President Trump this week saying the US will end $4 billion in annual aid to Israel.“We are going to implement an arms embargo from below, a people’s arms embargo,” declared DSA National Political Committee member Francesca Maviglia.Several DSA chapters have started working on a National Arms Embargo Campaign, targeting Elbit systems, an Israeli arms manufacturer with a subsidiary in Texas, and United Airlines, said Maviglia.“Instead of pleading with policymakers, we’re going to disrupt the production and shipping of weapons ourselves,” she threatened.Another leader, fresh off a trip to the Middle East, talked about how a recent DSA delegation to Jordan was stopped by the Israeli Defense Forces from crossing the Palestinian border.“It’s only strengthened my resolve to fight against Israel,” said Kareem Elrefai, a DSA National Political Committee member, as his comrades in ...