Resolution Text:

DSA members – regardless of endorsement status – who are credibly shown to

1. have consistently and publicly opposed BDS and the Palestinian cause (e.g. by denouncing the BDS movement in public interviews; writing public op-eds denouncing the BDS movement; drafting and voting in favor of legislation that suppresses BDS, such as legislation that suppresses speech rights around the right to freely criticize Zionism/Israel and/or the right to boycott; making statements that “Israel has a right to defend itself”; making or endorsing statements or legislation equating anti-Zionism with antisemitism), even after receiving fair and ample opportunity for education about the Palestinian struggle for liberation,

2. be currently affiliated with the Israeli government or any Zionist lobby group(s) such as, but not limited to, AIPAC, J Street, or Democratic Majority for Israel (DMFI), or

3. have knowingly provided material aid to Israel (e.g., voted to provide Israel with material aid; gave direct financial donations of any kind to Israel and/or settler NGOs who carry out the mission of Israeli settlement and Palestinian dispossession/displacement, such as the Jewish National Fund, the Israel Land Fund, the Hebron Fund, and Regavim)

shall be considered in substantial disagreement with DSA’s principles and policies, thereby committing an expellable offense as outlined in Article 3, Section 4 of the DSA Constitution, which states that a member credibly shown to have engaged in any of the above shall “be expelled [by] a two-thirds (⅔) vote of all members of the National Political Committee.”

I can’t find any articles about this online. The resolution to align with BDS was opposed :

Full list of resolutions here https://dsa-lsc.org/2025/08/06/lsc-official-2025-dsa-convention-recommendations/

    • Schmoo@slrpnk.net
      4·
      2 days ago

      In the case of the DSA, the votes against this are coming from people who want the DSA to endorse “liberal Zionist” candidates who are otherwise progressive. The DSA has many radical members, but it’s a bigger tent than most are aware of. There are a lot of reformist moderate types in the DSA who see this as overzealous purity testing.

        • Schmoo@slrpnk.net
          6·
          2 days ago

          Well, that is what they just voted for lol. They’re purging liberal Zionists from their ranks, which is amazing considering the founder of the DSA Michael Harrington was pro-Israel. Here’s a quote from him:

          The basic fact is that Zionism – which I take to mean the philosophy of support for, and identification with, a Jewish homeland in Israel – is the national liberation movement of a Jewish people asserting their right to self-determination. If one preposterously charges that Zionism is racist, then so are all nationalisms which joined to condemn it at the UN. And that is to drain the concept of racism of any serious meaning.

          As an anarchist my response to that would be that all nationalisms are racist, insofar as they require that the rights of the national ingroup be respected only at the expense of the rights of the outgroup. I’m glad that the DSA is moving past this phase of Zionist apologia and establishing themselves as an explicitly anti-Zionist party.