Notably absent from Walz’s speech was any real substance on foreign policy — including discussion of the genocide happening against Palestinians in Gaza, which uncommitted delegates and their allies have been trying to discuss for days at DNC. Indeed, most of the night, if not the week, has ignored the issue, and where it has been mentioned, Israel’s role in the genocide has been glossed over.
Uncommitted delegates in support of Palestinian liberation and an end to the genocide have requested that the DNC allow a Palestinian speaker take the podium in the United Center, to discuss a permanent ceasefire and an embargo for weapons from the U.S. to Israel, which the U.S. is legally obligated to do.
“We are learning that Israeli hostages’ families will be speaking from the main stage. We strongly support that decision and also strongly hope that we will also be hearing from Palestinians who’ve endured the largest civilian death toll since 1948,” read a statement from the Uncommitted National Movement account on X. “Excluding a Palestinian speaker betrays the party’s commitment in our platform to valuing Israelis and Palestinian lives equally. Vice President Harris must unite this party with a vision that fights for everyone, including Palestinians.”
A group of uncommitted delegates, joined by interfaith leaders and their allies, staged a sit-in just outside the convention hall on Wednesday night, saying they wouldn’t remove themselves from that spot until their demands for a Palestinian speaker were met.
If these people really cared about Palestinians, and wanted to help improve their lives, they would get on a plane to Gaza and protest Hamas.
This is a pretty dumb take. That’s out of reach for essentially everyone.
But if they cared about Palestinians they’d stop attacking progressives that already support them and protest the people and institutions that do not. Helping elect Trump, sending threats to hospitals and synagogues, and attacking pride events won’t stop the genocide
“go get killed by Israel using bombs supplied by your government, instead of protesting your government’s unconditional supply of bombs to Israel’s ongoing genocide”
What?
What a dumb take. I’ve met Palestinians in Palestine, they say it’s better to work to change US policy because that’s what’s supporting their misery.
A candidate needs to earn the votes and applying pressure is what being in a democracy is about. Somehow too many people can’t remember this lesson in school.