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Popcorn Time: Tensions Flare Between Hakeem Jeffries’ Office, NYC DSA Over Watermelon Flyer Controversy

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As RedState previously reported, the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America landed themselves in hot water this week with wokesters in their own party after the antisemitic group promoted a protest in front of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ (D-N.Y.) NY office by way of using a drawing of a watermelon.

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For those who missed it, here’s what the flyer looked like:

Some on Twitter including the NYC DSA themselves and some media outlets pointed out that the watermelon is a symbol of the Palestinian flag among the people of Gaza, who reportedly have used it as a substitute for when Israel allegedly banned the flag. 

But others were quick to note that the flag was not banned here in the U.S., and that the NYC DSA “knew exactly what they were doing” when they used it in the promotional flyer to stir up anger toward a powerful black Democratic leader:

“Watermelon has been used in racist imagery against Black people for hundreds of years. There’s no excuse for using it in flyers against a Black New York politician. The Palestinian Flag is not banned in America. These gaslighting f*cks know exactly what they’re doing.”

In an update to this story, it appears the situation has escalated quickly, with a spokesman for Jeffries firing back against the NYC DSA by trotting out a tactic the left is notorious for using on Republicans – the race card:

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“The watermelon has long been used as a dehumanizing racist trope by white supremacists in America.  In connection with the planned rally targeting our district office, the use of racially inflammatory imagery should come as no surprise given the role NYC-DSA and other gentrifiers have played in aggressively attacking Black elected officials. They have zero credibility in the communities Leader Hakeem Jeffries proudly represents…”

The use of the phrase “other gentrifiers” in this case is code for “rich, white coddled liberals,” who are more interested in virtue signaling than actually doing something meaningful that would have a long-lasting positive impact for the poor and middle-class communities they claim to want to help.

While that term fits woke white Democrats to a “t,” I should note that the claim from Jeffries’ office about the NYC-DSA having “zero credibility” in the communities Jeffries represents is at odds with the reality that the most prominent members of the DSA both in the city’s chapter and nationally are people of color, including Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.), as well as Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.).

Not only that but there were a lot of black and brown people at the antisemitic pro-Hamas rally heavily promoted by the NYC DSA, which was held the day after Hamas terrorists slaughtered 1,400 Israeli civilians.

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As to the percentages of how many support the NYC DSA, that is unclear, but what is clear is that the demonstrations regularly put on display in the Big Apple by these groups indicate that it’s not as insignificant a number as Jeffries and other pro-Israel Democrats in NYC would like you to think.

In any event, it is popcorn-worthy on some level to see Democrats continue to eat their own in NYC. And while I’m not a fan of Jeffries, on this battle at least we find common ground: The exposure of the absolute rot at the core of the NYC DSA, which at some point hopefully AOC and Bowman will have to answer for at the primary ballot box.

Flashback: Media Pounces on GOP After Inconvenient Truths About Hakeem Jeffries Are Pointed Out

Related: Hakeem Jeffries vs. The Squad: Democrats Are Having a ‘Come to Allah’ Moment

NYC Chapter of Democrat Socialists of America May Have Finally Done Themselves in With Latest Stunt

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Hamas terrorists were still slaughtering Israeli civilians on the weekend of October 7th and 8th when the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America promoted a disturbing march in the Big Apple in a “show of solidarity” for Hamas and the so-called “Palestinian cause,” with many in the crowd on the day of the event chanting pro-terrorism slogans like “from the river to the sea,” “resistance is justified when people are occupied,” and “long live the intifada.”

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Before the antisemitic demonstration was even held, some New York Democrat “leaders” who for years otherwise coddled the NYC DSA condemned it, with Gov. Kathy Hochul proclaiming that, “The planned rally is abhorrent and morally repugnant.”

Over 24 hours after the hate-filled protest, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), who is perhaps the NYC DSA’s most famous/infamous member, issued a statement claiming that the “bigotry and callousness” on display that day “did not speak for the thousands of New Yorkers who are capable of rejecting both Hamas’ horrifying attacks against innocent civilians as well as the grave injustices and violence Palestinians face under occupation.”

As of this writing, however, AOC is still a card-carrying member of the NYC DSA.

Though the NYC DSA has taken considerably more heat from actual pro-Israel Democrats in New York like Rep. Ritchie Torres, the rest have seemed content in ignoring the socialist group since the rally took place, perhaps hoping they will fade from the spotlight and that people will stop asking Democrats who either played footsie with them or who otherwise looked away as they rose in stature in the state where they stand on the group’s antisemitic tendencies.

One recent development coming out of the NYC DSA, however, might finally do them in, except this time around it doesn’t revolve around antisemitism but instead a poster they created to promote a “Brooklyn Families for Palestine” gathering where they’re calling on House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) to be questioned in front of his Central office location in NYC over his attendance at the pro-Israel rally Tuesday.

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Note the use of a watermelon in the promotional flyer:

The watermelon drawing led to accusations of racism against the NYC DSA considering the watermelon’s use in racist imagery starting around the early 1900s. 

Far leftists who will do just about anything to defend people who don’t deserve it (like the NYC DSA) were quick to point out that the watermelon is connected to symbolism among the people of Gaza, as this article suggested:

Others, though, understandably were not so forgiving, including one who said the NYC DSA knew exactly what they were doing with that flyer:

“Watermelon has been used in racist imagery against Black people for hundreds of years. There’s no excuse for using it in flyers against a Black New York politician. The Palestinian Flag is not banned in America. These gaslighting f*cks know exactly what they’re doing.”

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Another wrote, “Folks got Palestinian flags [all] over their Twitter handle but somehow had to use a watermelon in their anti Hakeem Jeffries flyer.”

Yup. They shouldn’t be let off the hook for this. Not for a second.

That said, it’ll be interesting to see how – and if – NY Dems come down hard on them for the watermelon imagery in comparison to how they reacted to their antisemitism because while racism is undoubtedly evil and unacceptable, cheering for genocidal terrorist groups to succeed is much worse.

Related: AOC’s Whingey Twitter Hot Take on Rashida Tlaib’s Censure Gets Interrupted by Some Inconvenient Truths