“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.
You can lie and censor the truth with your mod powers on .World. You seem to have forgotten you can’t do that on .ml
And of course the new DNC platform matches this
Show me where they support the use of weapons for genocide. It’s cool, I can wait.
Oh, you can’t because they don’t.
The weapons are unconditional. Therefore they are okay for them being used in any way Israeli regime deems fit.
That doesn’t mean they have stated they support genocidal action.
My kid was going through a bad patch and asked me to hold on to his gun for him. If I had used that to rob a bank, he would not be complicit in bank robbery.
No, but if you had already robbed a dozen banks and then your kid gave you another gun he would definitely be complicit.