{"id":244019,"date":"2026-08-10T20:46:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T20:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/244019\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T20:46:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T20:46:23","slug":"dsa-co-chair-megan-romer-says-events-of-october-7-were-in-many-ways-inevitable-blames-israel-for-running-concentration-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/244019\/","title":{"rendered":"DSA co-chair Megan Romer says ‘events of October 7 were, in many ways, inevitable,’ blames Israel for running ‘concentration camp’"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON \u2014 A Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)<\/a> co-chair blamed the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israeli policies in the Gaza Strip, calling the massacre \u201cinevitable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Megan Romer, who is DSA co-chair alongside Ashik Siddique, declared that backing \u201cdefense or economic support for Israel\u201d is a \u201csolid red line\u201d within her ultra-far-left movement that has gained traction in a slew of Democratic primaries this cycle<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think the events of October 7 were, in many ways, inevitable,\u201d Romer told<\/a> the New Yorker\u2019s David Remnick in a recent interview when asked about a DSA-backed Darializa Avila Chevalier rallying against Israel on Oct. 8, 2023.<\/p>\n

Megan Romer pinned blame on Israel for the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attack. YouTube\/The New Yorker Radio Hour<\/p>\n

The attack killed some 1,200 Israelis and sparked a brutal war in the Palestinian enclave.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you put people into an open-air concentration camp and deny them basic rights, dignity, food, and the ability to live with minimal security for so long, you have to expect that eventually they will rebel,\u201d she went on. \u201cAnd that is not defending any harm of civilians.\u201d<\/p>\n

The deadly surprise attack from Hamas killed some 1,200 Israelis and sparked a brutal war in the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n

Romer noted that she likely would\u2019ve attended the Oct. 8, 2023 rally against Israel the day after the bloody Hamas attack if she lived in New York City at the time. <\/p>\n

She also explained that the DSA is advocating for a \u201cfree Palestine with the capital in Jerusalem,\u201d which means a \u201cone-state solution.\u201d<\/p>\n

When pressed about Hamas\u2019 record, Romer conceded that the terror group has some flaws. <\/p>\n

The DSA honcho called for a one state solution.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would not call Hamas queer-friendly,\u201d she said. \u201cI would not say that you can get a lot of social rights when you\u2019re under siege. I think most queer people that have been killed in Palestine have been killed by Israeli bombs.\u201d<\/p>\n

During the interview, Romer was pressed on a variety of pillars of the DSA\u2019s far-left platform, which has rocked Democratic primaries across the country and given fodder to Republicans. <\/p>\n

She doubled down on the position of defunding the police, something from which many DSA-backed candidates in major races across the country have distanced themselves.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat means zero funding,\u201d she explained. \u201cIt means taking money away from police departments and investing it elsewhere\u2014fully funding social services, schools, and after-school programs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked about a country she believes has a great model for the US to follow, Romer pointed to Cuba, hailing it as \u201cthe most LGBTQ-friendly constitution in the world\u201d and downplaying concerns about its government being tyrannical. <\/p>\n

She also defended DSA skepticism of supporting Ukraine in its war of defense against Russian invaders.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t believe in pouring American money and weapons anywhere in the world,\u201d Romer argued. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t make anything better.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 A Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) co-chair blamed the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israeli…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[19410,159,37,5539,81,33766,933],"class_list":["post-244019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-democratic-socialists-of-america","tag-foreign-policy","tag-israel","tag-israel-hamas-war","tag-politics","tag-socialism","tag-us-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117073175054800503","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}