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   From: falling@from.trees   
      
   Let’s welcome this week’s vote by the Colorado Democratic Party leadership   
   against an anti-Israel resolution that was pushed by the party’s noisy and   
   growing radical fringe.   
      
   At a virtual meeting Monday, the state party’s central committee rejected   
   a declaration whose absurd provisions included one condemning Israel for a   
   "disproportionate military response” to a surprise attack on the country   
   last Oct. 7 by Hamas terrorists. The attack killed about 1,200, mostly   
   Israeli civilians — many of them children and elderly. Hundreds were taken   
   hostage.   
      
   The resolution also regurgitated Hamas’ preposterous claims about civilian   
   casualties in its home base in neighboring Gaza, where the terrorist   
   group’s political arm rules with an iron fist. Hamas, which controls the   
   flow of information there, routinely has churned out unverified and, by   
   some accounts, wildly inflated numbers for the civilian death toll   
   purportedly resulting from Israel’s months-long military campaign to hunt   
   down Hamas combatants.   
      
   It would be easy to wave off the Colorado resolution as just so much hot   
   air, even if it had passed, given how little say a state party has over   
   U.S. foreign policy not to mention over the events transpiring in the   
   Mideast. But Monday’s vote could have practical value in another way — as   
   a bellwether with broader implications for Colorado’s dominant political   
   party.   
      
   Especially following the defeat of hard-left candidates in some key races   
   in last week’s Democratic primary, Monday’s central committee vote could   
   signal that our state’s many mainstream Democrats are fed up, at last,   
   with their party’s extreme wing. Not only with its embrace of the likes of   
   Palestinian terrorists on the international stage — but also with its   
   promotion of reckless policies in our own state.   
      
   The same crowd that has demanded the annihilation of staunch U.S. ally   
   Israel “from the river to the sea” has sought in our Legislature to   
   release dangerous criminals onto Colorado’s streets; to cripple our   
   private sector’s ability to create affordable housing; to enable drug   
   abuse; to eliminate our traditional energy industry — the list goes on.   
   Those policies’ advocates — the self-proclaimed Democratic Socialists; the   
   “justice reform” movement, among others driven by narrow dogma — have   
   abandoned their own party’s rank and file.   
      
   Could the tide be turning? If so, the radical left’s unprecedented   
   denunciation of Israel — its antisemitic tirades against the Mideast’s   
   only functional democracy — may be the tipping point. The many Democrats   
   who never signed up for such nonsense seem to be losing patience.   
      
   And the many Jewish Coloradans who long have called the Democratic Party   
   their political home — and who now are enduring the most insulting and   
   unnerving invective from the left — are at wits’ end.   
      
   Just this week, two politically active Jewish Colorado Democrats drove   
   that point home in a commentary they authored for Colorado Politics.   
   Stefanie Clarke and Dawn Reinfeld recently founded the group Stop   
   Antisemitism Colorado to counter the growing hate speech directed at Jews   
   — a lot of it emanating from within the Democratic Party — since the Hamas   
   attack.   
      
   Clarke and Reinfeld lauded last Tuesday’s primary election results and   
   vowed “to fight tooth and nail” against their party’s anti-Israel left.   
      
   “This election was about more than just winning or losing; it was about   
   sending a clear message: Colorado Democrats do not support the divisive   
   and isolating tactics of the far left,” they wrote. “This is our party   
   too, and we will not let it be taken over by those who seek to marginalize   
   us.”   
      
   It’s a manifesto that can inspire not only the state’s mainstream   
   Democrats but also all Coloradans of every race, creed, ethnicity — and   
   political party.   
      
   https://gazette.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-a-less-radical-path-for-   
   colorado-democrats/article_cf53a51c-3a4f-11ef-af20-776ce2253103.html   
      
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