{ Just outside the DNC we are seeing Palestinian-Americans excluded from a platform they are actively trying to be a part of. The Democratic leadership is making the decision to exclude a part of its own base at a time when Trump's defeat is nowhere near a given. As the Muslim Women for Harris-Walz group pointed out, relatives of Israeli hostages that spoke on stage - because only Israelis are allowed the right to narrate what they're going through - showed more humanity to Palestinians than the Democrats whose current leader is the one funding and arming the genocide. Bend The Arc, "the organization that is home to the largest Jewish effort focused on US democracy", is also demanding that the DNC allow Palestinian-Americans just as they have allowed Jewish-Americans.
The Democrats are refusing to hear a vetted speech - one they already approved - by Abbas Alawieh, a Palestinian-American delegate, ie one that was voted by Democrats to attend the DNC. They are excluding the doctors at the DNC who have worked in Gaza and described it as hell on Earth. They are excluding the dozens of Jewish-American groups urging them to abandon Netanyahu and prioritize a permanent ceasefire instead. As Dan Berger pointed out, this comes sixty years after the Democratic Party refused to seat the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, the party that was co-lead by Fannie Lou Hamer, the same Fannie Lou Hamer that the Democrats at the 2024 DNC keep on bringing up and praising. In her speech, Hamer said “if the Freedom Democratic Party is not seated now, I question America.” The Democrats are making the same mistake today even as they praise the woman they previously excluded. }
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