It’s the height of hypocrisy for @AOC to say she'll boycott @edsheeran given her endorsements of genocidal politicians like @RepJeffries, campaigning for @KamalaHarris, and supporting Iron Dome weapons funding for Israel. But AOC empathizing with Ed Sheeran is unsurprising given that both of them have made it clear that their personal careers are much more important to them than using their internationally prominent positions to stand up against the genocidal apartheid state of Israel. In reality, the sellouts by @AOC are even worse, as an elected representative of the Democratic Socialists of America. If AOC had decided to use her elected office to fight the genocidal, anti-worker Democratic Party, she would have antagonized the party leadership but a majority of working people would have agreed with her. She could have combated establishment opposition by building mass movements of working people to support her, as I relentlessly did during my decade on the Seattle City Council. The cowardice and complicity of @NYCMayor Mamdani and AOC is what history will remember, along with the cover given to them by the DSA leadership. They claim to be pro-Palestinian but support genocidal politicians to ensure their own comfortable careers in the capitalist Democratic Party.