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Peter Sterne@petersterne.com

The key context to have is that Nithya was really bad on Palestine for a while. She distanced herself from DSA when they called for a ceasefire right after Oct. 7, focused on the hostages while ignoring the genocide, opposed BDS, sought an endorsement from a local pro-Israel group, etc.

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i guess i hope she changed meaningfully? but dsa has built a brand on running principled candidates wrt palestine and usually if im casting a vote with the baggage of "her stance on palestine sucks but i guess i do like her other than that" it's because the candidate is an establishment party dem

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