Leaders of the city’s Democratic Socialists of America chapter can’t stop revealing what truly vile weasels they are.
After the group caught (well-deserved) flack for promoting a pro-Palestinian rally Sunday on the heels of Hamas’ mass atrocities, it issued a fake apology that amounted to, “We’re sorry we got caught — and it wasn’t really our rally.”
That’s right: DSA’s moral midgets still couldn’t bring themselves to explicitly condemn the Palestinian atrocities.
It’s simply stunning.
The group apologized only for “confusion” its post might have caused and for “not making our values explicit.”
What values?
“Peace, equality, and freedom for Palestinians and Israelis.”
And, oh, opposing “the killing of all civilians.”
How bold.
Yet DSA leaders refuse to utter a single word about Hamas’ intentional targeting of Israeli civilians — its rapes of women, its beheadings of babies, its burning of live victims, its kidnappings, including likely of Americans.
Presumably, that’s all fine with Democratic Socialism.
NYC-DSA steering committee member Nadia Tykulsker also belatedly claimed the group promoted the rally “at the request of a coalition partner” — as if that excuses it.
Please.
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If DSA thought the rally was wrong, why not say so outright?
(And why promote it at all?)
Then again, if it can’t condemn Hamas’ barbarism, why would it bash the rally?
Mayor Eric Adams had no problem bluntly calling it “disgusting”: Protesters displayed a Nazi symbol, burned an Israeli flag, cheered Palestinians in seeming approval of the savagery.
It should’ve been a snap to denounce.
Instead, DSA expressed “concern that some have chosen to focus” on the rally, rather than on the “root causes of violence in the region”: i.e., Israel.
Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-Bronx) had the exact right response: “The DSA is . . . despicable, detestable, disgraceful, and disgraced.” The same goes for “anyone who enables them.”
That would include DSA elected officials The Post called, none of whom would unequivocally condemn the carnage.
What would a real DSA apology have said?
How about, We’re deeply sorry for having had anything to do with this disgraceful event and those who sponsored it. We’re shamed by our shocking lack of judgment.
The Hamas savagery was horrific and totally inexcusable, and the idea of a rally at that time to support Palestinians — rather than express sorrow for, and solidarity with, Israelis — was beyond tone-deaf.
Don’t expect ever to hear anything like that from the DSA, of course.
The group clearly lacks any sense of morality and happily makes common cause with antisemites.
No lame “apology” can ever cover up that fact.