Prem Thakker's first day on the ground included the DNC’s panel on Palestinian human rights – but did it mean anything? Plus, a quick exchange with Josh Shapiro.

“What was very shocking was that while we were all in the room discussing and listening to people impacted by what’s happening in Gaza, we’re not certain that that message will get across to the people at the top of the party,” Khader added. “You look at the themes of the party’s convention – today, tomorrow, Wednesday, and Thursday – there’s nowhere where Palestinians are included in that narrative.”

While the platform condemned former President Donald Trump for refusing to “endorse the political aspirations of the Palestinian people,” it made no divergence from the status quo policy of vetoing UN Security Council resolutions this year that moved towards Palestinian statehood.

While the platform boasts of being opposed to settler violence, it makes no acknowledgment of the International Court of Justice finding the Israeli government’s occupation and illegal expansions of settlements constitute apartheid.

And to that end, while the platform condemns UN efforts that apparently “single out” Israel, and the Boycott, Divest, and Sanctions movement for the same – apparently ignoring the historical precedent of Americans also boycotting and pushing divestment against fossil fuel companies and apartheid South Africa.

  • AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.mlEnglish
    147·
    3 months ago

    Gutless shill. “The party’s nominee to the office of president (the de facto leader of the party) has zero say in their current policies”

    The excuses are becoming as offensive as the genocide itself.

      • AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.mlEnglish
        84·
        3 months ago

        Only an ever growing disgust at liberals looking for literally any excuse to blame people not in power for the actions of their preferred leaders, who are in power.

        1. I don’t honestly believe nor give a shit about this because

        2. Bibi is never going to willingly agree to an actual end to the genocide in the first place so anyone making this a center of attention is just fucking dumb. Like real fucking dumb. A credulous rube with zero critical thinking skills or long term memory.

        • ChronosTriggerWarning@lemmy.world
          27·
          3 months ago
          1. Bibi is in power.
          2. I’m not “liberal.”
          3. I doubt you give two fucks about genocide or Palestine if you’re not concerned that Trump is possibly

          BLOCKING A CEASEFIRE.

          See? I can do lists too.

          • AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.mlEnglish
            34·
            3 months ago

            No really you have the brain of a fish. You see a shiny object and you bite on it without question. Only an idiot of the highest order could be tricked into thinking there was anything even rhetorically framed as a cease fire on the table. Having any awareness at all of Biden’s ideology and Bibi’s political situation make the idea a joke.

            I doubt you give two fucks about genocide or Palestine if you’re not concerned that Trump is possibly

            Your disgusting cynicism in full bloom. You literally don’t give a shit except now you have an angle to make it about your election.

            • ChronosTriggerWarning@lemmy.world
              24·
              3 months ago

              Ah, so Bibi had no intention of a crease fire, so Donny boy interfering is perfectly acceptable. You really do care about Palestine. It’s so obvious.

    • WldFyre@lemm.ee
      26·
      3 months ago

      “the party” lol

      What dialectical materialism does to a mfer