Democrats are looking to unite the party during their National Convention in Chicago and polls show one way for Kamala Harris to do this is to pledge to stop arming Israel.
As Democrats prepare for their National Convention in Chicago next week, anti-genocide protesters and advocates are gearing up to meet them there. While Democratic leaders hope to demonstrate unusual party unity at the Convention, the yawning gap between those leaders and most Democratic voters—especially the key sectors of young voters, progressives, Muslim- and Arab-Americans—stands in the way of that unity.
Democratic policy toward Palestine is not the only problematic issue in the Democrats’ policy book, but it’s a prominent one. Neither Vice President Kamala Harris nor her running mate, Governor Tim Walz, has demonstrated any commitment to changing that policy despite its manifest failure and its unpopularity among Democratic voters.
Harris hoped that a change in tone to one that is more empathetic to the suffering in Gaza and one that makes anti-genocide protesters and members of the Uncommitted movement “feel heard” would give her breathing room on this issue. That is both misguided and insulting, to the American advocates for an end to U.S. support and enabling of Israel’s genocide, but even more, to the victims of the genocide itself in Palestine.
While polls have long shown that an overwhelming majority of Democrats want a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and that a clear majority believe that Israel is committing genocide, Harris seems to be banking on the crowds at her rallies who, while they may fall into those groups, don’t find their enthusiasm for her dampened by Harris’ role in that genocide.
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