I was a member of DSA’s parent organization, DSOC, from 1975 until 1981, served on its National Board and also worked as a staff member in its national office. \u00a0I joined DSA after a lapse of many years during the Bernie Sanders campaign in which I served as the representative of the campaign to Democrats Abroad.<\/p>\n
I understand that DSA at its national convention yesterday voted by a large majority to endorse the campaign of boycotts, divestments and sanctions (BDS) targeting Israel. \u00a0In a video I saw from the convention, this vote resulted in chants from some delegates of “Palestine will be free, from the river to the sea”. \u00a0I also saw at least one Palestinian flag being waved in celebration.<\/p>\n
I cannot in good conscience be a member of an organization which promotes a boycott of the Jewish state. \u00a0I consider the BDS campaign to be antisemitic and racist. \u00a0I oppose it as a socialist and as a Jew. \u00a0I am appalled that DSA would take such a position.<\/p>\n
For that reason, despite more than 40 years supporting DSA and its predecessor, I now wish to resign my membership.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was a member of DSA’s parent organization, DSOC, from 1975 until 1981, served on its National Board and also worked as a staff member in its national office. \u00a0I joined DSA after a lapse…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1287,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1288,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions\/1288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}