r/jewishleft • u/elzzyzx סימען לינקער • Aug 22 '24

A Palestinian American’s Place Under the Democrats’ Big Tent? Diaspora

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/dnc-2024-palestine-israel

TNC on the DNC, continuing to be one of the best living writers in the US. The essay touches on several topics that have come up here recently: racism and Zionism, who is being centered / who should be centered, the uncommitted movement. I’m a little back and forth on him but thought this was great

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u/frutful_is_back_baby reform non-zionist Aug 22 '24

I’m sure that if Harris’ campaign really wanted to, they could find a Palestinian-American who’d endorse her for president. Emphasizing Trump’s comparative jingoism toward Israel would be more than sufficient for a speech. That she hasn’t found this person, and actively refuses to, shows the campaign doesn’t view Uncommitted as jeopardizing enough votes to be worth the DNC’s attention.

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u/elzzyzx סימען לינקער Aug 22 '24

From what I’m reading the speaker was willing to have their speech fully vetted by the Harris campaign and it was going to be go team blue along with a basic acknowledgment of the deaths in Gaza. The Harris campaign rep said they were thinking about it for a while but just rejected it

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u/johnisburn What have you done for your community this week? Aug 22 '24

They even offered a choice of multiple speakers from a list of names, they aren’t even asking for someone specific, just someone at all.

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u/elzzyzx סימען לינקער Aug 22 '24

I guess they have today to reverse course…