Gladwyn d’Souza<p></p><p><a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/02/cori-bush-wesley-bell-missouri-ferguson-israel-aipac-2024-democratic-primary/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">motherjones.com/politics/2024/</span><span class="invisible">02/cori-bush-wesley-bell-missouri-ferguson-israel-aipac-2024-democratic-primary/</span></a></p><p>Bush had been making national headlines as a leading voice for a <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ceasefire" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ceasefire</span></a> in <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Gaza</span></a>, where more than 6,000 Palestinians had already been killed in the Israeli bombardment launched after Hamas’ October 7 terrorist attack. (As of this writing, the death toll has risen to over 26,000.) In a tweet a day prior to Bell’s announcement, Bush had decried Israel’s military operations as an “ethnic cleansing campaign.”<br />Bell insisted there was “nothing personal” about his decision, but he called Bush’s statements “offensive” and contrasted himself with her—on the war and more generally—by pledging to “stand with the president.”<br /><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/GenocideJoeIsAIPACsManchurianCandidate" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GenocideJoeIsAIPACsManchurianCandidate</span></a><br /><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/VoteProgressiveNoMatterWho" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>VoteProgressiveNoMatterWho</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/TaxBillionairesOutOfExistence" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TaxBillionairesOutOfExistence</span></a><br /><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/GQPDemocratsCensureTlaib" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GQPDemocratsCensureTlaib</span></a> <br /><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/CitizensUnitedKleptocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CitizensUnitedKleptocracy</span></a> <br /><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/AIPACendorsedJan6ers" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AIPACendorsedJan6ers</span></a> <br /><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/DarkMoneyLeo" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DarkMoneyLeo</span></a></p>