DNC to Host Historic Panel on Palestinian Rights

[onandup]

The Democratic National Convention will hold its first ever panel discussion on Palestinian human rights on Monday, the result of months of effort from activists advocating for an end to U.S. support for Israel’s deadly military onslaught in Gaza, which has killed more than 40,000 people.

Panelists will include Layla Elabed, one of the founders of the Uncommitted Movement, which organized massive “uncommitted” votes during the Democratic primaries, as well as Hala Hajazi, a Democratic donor and fundraiser who has lost several family members to Israel’s ongoing military campaign. Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan, a Palestinian-American pediatric physician who has been working in Gaza throughout Israel’s assault, will speak, as well.

The panel will also include Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, former U.S. Representative Andy Levin of Michigan, and Jim Zogby, the founder of the Arab American Institute.

Elabed and her Uncommitted Movement co-chair Abbas Alawieh, who is also a DNC delegate, released an official statement from the group, thanking the DNC for working with them on the panel.

https://newrepublic.com/post/185012/kamala-harris-dnc-historic-panel-palestine

[JohnSJ]

1. Hopefully it won't be like the group in 2016 which included Cornell West who

was given a seat at the table in 2016, and then when the 32016 convention was over, because he wasn’t happy with the DNC platform promptly endorsed Jill Sten and encouraged others to do likewise

[nycbos]

3. +1

[David__77]

2. Good step.

[LauraInLA]

4. Has anyone seen reports of how this went?