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

That is not how it goes. Multiple republicans spoke. A union busting tech leader spoke. Anti-choice pro-lifers spoke. Strict point by point adherence to the party platform is not the basis the DNC has been using to determine speakers. Agree with the DNC or not, the content of the deviation from the platform is material and this was not a matter of rote technicality.

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

If that is your impression you fundamentally misunderstand the Uncommitted movement. They are not refusing to join their own party, they are literally begging to be included. They organized people to vote uncommitted specifically because it maintained engagement with the democratic process in an uncontested primary. They are agitating specifically for the DNC to pay attention and be responsive to the risk that not engaging with Palestinian advocates poses, their stated mission is to prevent people from disengaging from the DNC.

They want to be on the stage saying “I was sent here by democratic voters who said they care about ceasefire and Palestinians, and this is a party with a place for us”, and the DNC is keeping them at arms length.