Salon
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Maryland -based immigrants' rights group CASA issued a statement earlier this month calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza .
The group condemned “the utilization of US tax dollars to promote the ongoing violence” Nine Democratic state senators in Maryland threatened to withdraw state funding for CASA .
Dozens of organizations signed a letter demanding that the senators retract their public letter which “explicitly threatens” the immigration rights non-profit.
Jewish organizations and elected officials are punishing CASA for their statement criticizing Israel .
Jewish organizers and activists who have worked closely with CASA have called out elected officials.
CASA has since apologized and pulled its original social media postings.
But one of their private donors, the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation , pulled $ 150,000 in promised donations.
If these attacks on young people and progressives persist, exemplified by cases like CASA 's where governance power was wielded to threaten funding cuts and similar efforts to defeat progressive members for expressing mild support for justice for Palestinians continue, “the rupture, it's going to cause within the Democratic coalition will be irreparable,” Zogby said. Read more about the U.S. response to Israel -Hamas war.
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