HeyJaredTalia Giardini
Registered Nurse turned policy nerd. In recovery. Advocating for rational policies. John Fetterman fan.
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More BS from Kanal’s office regarding the BDS ordinance (opens the original)
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9/8/26Talia,Thank you for your follow-up. I want to make one distinction clear at the outset. Councilor Kanal is a DSA member, but he is not DSA and does not automatically share every position taken by the organization or by people associated with it. Separately, he has longstanding personal and academic engagement with Palestine. He earned a master’s degree in human rights and international law at NYU, wrote his thesis on nonviolent protest in Palestine, and spent several months in the West Ban
Email exchange with Councilor Kanal regarding the BDS ordinance (opens the original)
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Email response from Kanal’s staffer 9/4/26Hi Talia,Thank you for reaching out. I want to clarify a few points, because I think some separate issues are being conflated here.Councilor Kanal is a member of DSA, but he is not a spokesperson for DSA, nor does membership mean that every position taken by DSA or by people associated with it is his position. Mr. Piker does not speak for Councilor Kanal. Councilor Kanal has condemned and mourned the October 7 attacks, and I would not attribute someone e
Email to City Council regarding BDS ordinance (opens the original)
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Hello Council,I’m writing about yesterday’s ordinance about diverting investment in countries with human rights violations. I’m appalled at the gaslighting of the DSA that this is not part of the BDS movement. BDS is a known “value” of the DSA. It is only aimed at Israel, as Zimmerman explained, despite how you reword it so you can claim it’s not antisemitic and that you’re being unfairly criticized. The DSA is very good at semantic manipulation. This is BDS, plain and simple. Germany has also c
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