How Democrats Ignoring Gaza Brought Down Their Party

'Israel's slaughter and starvation of Palestinians—funded by U.S. taxpayers—has triggered one of the greatest surges in progressive activism in a generation.'

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Anti-war protest for a Gaza ceasefire and an end to U.S. aid to Israel outside the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago in August, 2024. Photo/ Nanzi Muro

New York Times contributing Opinion writer, Peter Beinart, writes an interesting opinion piece published in the New York Times on how Democrats ignoring Gaza brought down their party. Below is an excerpt from Beinart’s New York Times opinion piece. View the full article here. Peter Beinart’s book, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza, is forthcoming.People’s Tribune

Excerpt:
“”Over the past year, Israel’s slaughter and starvation of Palestinians — funded by U.S. taxpayers and live-streamed on social media — has triggered one of the greatest surges in progressive activism in a generation. Many Americans roused to action by their government’s complicity in Gaza’s destruction have no personal connection to Palestine or Israel. Like many Americans who protested South African apartheid or the Vietnam War, their motive is not ethnic or religious. It is moral.” … “Despite overwhelming evidence that the Democratic Party’s most devoted constituents wanted to end sales of weapons to Israel, the Biden administration kept sending them, even after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel expanded the war into Lebanon. And not only did Ms. Harris not break with Mr. Biden’s policy, she went out of her way to make voters who care about Palestinian rights feel unwelcome.” … “There is only one path forward. Although it will require a fierce intraparty brawl, Democrats — who claim to respect human equality and international law — must begin to align their policies on Israel and Palestine with these broader principles. In this new era, in which supporting Palestinian freedom has become central to what it means to be progressive, the Palestinian exception is not just immoral. It’s politically disastrous.”

View full article here.

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