“We were at a village that Israeli settlers had destroyed, they had destroyed the school, they had destroyed that village, and we were just looking at it,” said Khanna, a progressive lawmaker from California in the U.S. House of Representatives.
“And these hoodlums come in with machine guns – M4, an American-made machine gun – and they detain us. They block off the road. And then they call the IDF and the IDF is on their side, not on the side of the Americans,” Khanna said, referring to the Israeli military.
An aide to Khanna who was in the group, Cameron Kasky, said they were held for more than an hour and made appeals to the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem for help. A group of officers who appeared to be police eventually intervened, leading to their release, Kasky said.
Ah yes, classic Zionist rhetoric
He stopped taking naked aipac money and is now taking it from a superpac that hides it.
Specific names and amounts?
All you’re going to get is links that mean nothing and a promise to provide evidence later.
OP is a liar and IDK why you’re bothering to engage.
Unless someone has really caught my attention I usually don’t pay attention to or remember usernames tbh
Op has a life with other things to do than argue with infantile minds who can’t* do an iota of critical thinking or reading. Ftfy
Still waiting on all that sweet evidence you promised and have yet to deliver.
https://forward.com/fast-forward/777256/ro-khanna-democratic-critic-of-israel-says-he-supports-zionism-and-the-right-for-israel-to-exist/
https://theintercept.com/2025/12/30/aipac-campaigns-elections-israel-congress/
None of that has a damn thing to do with Ro Khanna. It’s more bullshit from you because you literally cannot back up the point you made.
It is exactly the point I made. God DAMN the dumbing down of schools, globally.
Can’t* ftfy
Thank you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_Street
https://jstreetpac.org/candidate/ro-khanna/
This is one. superpac that hides… I’ll look later, if .world mods haven’t removed it.
You’ve shown they have a page for other people to donate money to him, not the PAC itself, and not how much he’s received. I’ll wait for actual evidence.
You’re describing every PAC. Khanna can still deny the money.
I’m still waiting for anyone to show me how much money he’s received. Or explain why I should be upset about what amounts to a gofundme page.
You are disingenuous. A Zionist org support Khanna. Why?
Go ask them. Maybe they can also give you those numbers you swore you were looking up.
He’s a Zionist. His own words. Now it’s election time. It’s not just that you want to support your abusers. It’s that you want everyone who would leave them to stay.
This conversation is done if you’re done pretending you’re going to engage with facts or substantiate anything you say 👋
For anyone who doesn’t know about the TrackAIPAC website, it’s keeps track of which congressmen and candidates take aipac money. Khanna has signed the peace pledge and does not support Israel
It only tracks AIPAC money though. Bernie is taking J-street money and is somehow still green. TrackAIPAC is very corrupt.
Bernie remembers the old Washington politics. You can take the lobbyist money and still do whatever you want.
No Bernie is a hardcore Zionist.
https://youtu.be/nC6xiDKnMzA?t=23s
Maybe, but I dont know about hardcore. I have literally watched him vote against Zionist legislation before on the most boring TV channel. I suppose it could have been strategic voting that he had foreknowledge that would make his vote irrelevant, but I also have heard at at least some calls against occupation from him, as well.
I dont particularly love or hate the man, though he does seem to have some sort of principles that he’s stuck to longer than I’ve lived. That makes him way above average for a politician in this country. We have to grade on the curve over here, since our national politics is a clown show in a media circus.
No i mean actual hardcore. He only opposes some offensive weapons to stop Israel from committing genocide but he fully supports defending the genocidal Apartheid against retaliation.
He also opposes BDS and other measures to oppose Israel.
Yes, classic liberal Zionist rhetoric.
He’s towing the party line, and the Democratic Party is very much a Zionist organisation. He doesn’t like the optics of the genocide, blames the current regime and complains about the lost support of the younger generation and that a foreign prime minister sits in the holy US-American situation room, as only US-American presidents decide which war crimes (in the name of the USA) are to be made. He what’s to reduce open pro Israel spending, as he’s advocating America First ideology.
He’s supporting the Zionist project. Stop coping.
Let them praise him. He doesn’t have to be an antizionist. He’s a symbol of antizionism here. That’s whats being praised.
Like, I have my criticisms of the “two state - right to exist” Liberals. But, what did you expect progress to look like comrade? The same Liberals that spent years talking about October 7th in every sentence and “right to defend itself”. Those liberals are being forced to acknowledge the crimes of Israel. This is a win. You’re making those that advocate for Palestinians look unreasonable and irrational.
I understand being upset at these libs. I understand why you still call him a Zionist. But, my friend, please, we have a long way to go still; criticizing a Congressman felt a fraction of a fraction of the oppression Palestinians feel every day in the West Bank. It’s not productive in this context. There are plenty of context to criticize him. The libs see this and dislike Israel. Just let that be the discussion.
Apartheid South Africa ended when the liberals of the West were finally forced by activist and leftist into performative things just like this. This is a good sign. Let it happen.
The liberals praising anything against Israel is good. We’re gonna have to cringe and bite our tongue when they treat Congressman as heroic for this. They are treating action against Israel as a positive. They are treating West Bank settlers as enemies. That’s amazing. Remember where we came from just three years ago; and where we are today. They’ll understand your current criticism one day. But this is not the context in which to educate them.
Weird plea, sorry. This post has more than enough praise for the guy. I’m merely stating facts to rebuke naive or false narratives and to stop Zionist normalization. It’s not my job to appease Liberals or refrain from stating inconvenient truths.
Some Libs might see this and break through. Let it happen.
I don’t give a shit about congressmen in the imperialist core and I’m certainly not going to support controlled opposition of a system I reject outright. This system has to end. Fuck off.
We could use more ‘Zionists’ that denounce genocide, apartheid, and go to Palestine to draw attention to the issue 🤷♂️ I’m not impressed by you trotting out the party position and blaming it on him personally, especially when he’s specifically calling out his own party in the article I guess you didn’t read. What has he said and done that’s Zionist?
Yes, it’s a good thing he calls the things that are the things that are, after almost 3 years of relentless barbarism, I’d say that’s approaching the bare minimum threshold. clap clap. I don’t give a shit, what position he takes in his Zionist party in order to shape the brand of said party to soften the outrage of their voter base and position himself as the reasonable presidential candidate.
He expresses support for a political ideology based on racism, aiming for an ethno-nationalist state.
He repeatedly supports the notion of a “right to exist”, which is not a real thing; it’s only an argument in the context of defending the Zionist project. He’s proclaiming a right to exist for a settler colonial project based on ethnic cleansing and occupation of Palestinian land.
He expresses support for an etno-nationalist idea and also conflated anti-semitism with anti-zionism, which itself is anti-semitic.
Previously, I quoted him expressing support for a two-state solution under Israeli term. A two-state solution that requires Palestinians to recognize Israel as a Jewish state enshrines its ethno-nationalist character. A “demilitarized” Palestinian state would lack genuine sovereignty while Israel retains full military capacity—making it a subordinate entity, not a state of equals. The very premise accepts the legitimacy of a Jewish state on Palestinian land.
As I already quoted several things he said that are Zionist by definition in my previous comment, I suspect you don’t really have an understanding of what it even means. I’m not willing to descent into some back-and-forth with a person that’s primarily looking for excuses. Either learn, or stop pretending.
On Zionism:
Interview:
This is why people don’t leave their abusers. They keep listening to what they say, instead of watching what they do.
Ro Khanna literally went to the West Bank to experience things first hand where he was effectively kidnapped by Israeli terrorists and the IDF. Is that not doing?
Theatre.