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We Don’t Need an Autopsy to Tell Us the Democrats Failed on Gaza
The DNC is allegedly hiding a report showing that Kamala Harris’s Gaza policy helped cost her the 2024 election. But that report won’t tell us anything we don’t already know.
James Zogby
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Kamala Harris, campaigning in Washington, DC, faces protests from hundreds of people expressing disapproval of her administration’s Gaza policy, on October 29, 2024.
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Amini-brouhaha has erupted over whether the Democratic National Committee has buried a so-called “autopsy” report into Kamala Harris’s loss in the 2024 presidential election. There’s a fear that the report isn’t being released because it suggests that Harris’s defeat was due to her refusal to break with Joe Biden’s disastrous support for Israel’s sustained genocidal assault on Palestinians in Gaza. As a result, some groups are charging the DNC with a cover-up and demanding that the autopsy report be released.
I’ve been on the DNC for more than three decades. I served 16 years on the party’s executive committee and 11 as co-chair of its resolutions committee, and in 2016 I was appointed to serve on that year’s convention platform drafting committee. Finally, this past year, I was appointed by DNC chair Ken Martin to serve on a Middle East Working Group he created to help us sort out how our party deals with America’s policies in the Middle East.
I am no stranger to how the party handles—or, more accurately, avoids handling—issues involving Palestine/Israel. In 1988, I spoke from the Democratic National Convention podium in Atlanta to introduce Jesse Jackson’s platform plank calling for “mutual recognition, territorial compromise, and self-determination for both Israelis and Palestinians. For my efforts, I was asked to withdraw from the DNC, because “party leaders” were concerned that Republicans would use my membership and support for Palestine as an issue in the campaign. (I was reinstated in 1993). On eight occasions over the years, I testified that the party needed to acknowledge Palestinian rights. Having argued and lost this many times, I am well aware of the party establishment’s fear of addressing Palestine.
But I believe that the fight over this autopsy report is not where those of us who support Palestine, and who know that leading Democrats have been on the wrong side of this issue for far too long, should be focusing our energy.
I say this because any report on the Democrats and Gaza would only tell us what we already know: that voters, especially Democrats and independents, are fed …
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We Don’t Need an Autopsy to Tell Us the Democrats Failed on Gaza
The DNC is allegedly hiding a report showing that Kamala Harris’s Gaza policy helped cost her the 2024 election. But that report won’t tell us anything we don’t already know.
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Kamala Harris, campaigning in Washington, DC, faces protests from hundreds of people expressing disapproval of her administration’s Gaza policy, on October 29, 2024.
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Amini-brouhaha has erupted over whether the Democratic National Committee has buried a so-called “autopsy” report into Kamala Harris’s loss in the 2024 presidential election. There’s a fear that the report isn’t being released because it suggests that Harris’s defeat was due to her refusal to break with Joe Biden’s disastrous support for Israel’s sustained genocidal assault on Palestinians in Gaza. As a result, some groups are charging the DNC with a cover-up and demanding that the autopsy report be released.
I’ve been on the DNC for more than three decades. I served 16 years on the party’s executive committee and 11 as co-chair of its resolutions committee, and in 2016 I was appointed to serve on that year’s convention platform drafting committee. Finally, this past year, I was appointed by DNC chair Ken Martin to serve on a Middle East Working Group he created to help us sort out how our party deals with America’s policies in the Middle East.
I am no stranger to how the party handles—or, more accurately, avoids handling—issues involving Palestine/Israel. In 1988, I spoke from the Democratic National Convention podium in Atlanta to introduce Jesse Jackson’s platform plank calling for “mutual recognition, territorial compromise, and self-determination for both Israelis and Palestinians. For my efforts, I was asked to withdraw from the DNC, because “party leaders” were concerned that Republicans would use my membership and support for Palestine as an issue in the campaign. (I was reinstated in 1993). On eight occasions over the years, I testified that the party needed to acknowledge Palestinian rights. Having argued and lost this many times, I am well aware of the party establishment’s fear of addressing Palestine.
But I believe that the fight over this autopsy report is not where those of us who support Palestine, and who know that leading Democrats have been on the wrong side of this issue for far too long, should be focusing our energy.
I say this because any report on the Democrats and Gaza would only tell us what we already know: that voters, especially Democrats and independents, are fed …
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The DNC is allegedly hiding a report showing that Kamala Harris’s Gaza policy helped cost her the 2024 election. But that report won’t tell us anything we don’t already know.
James Zogby
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Kamala Harris, campaigning in Washington, DC, faces protests from hundreds of people expressing disapproval of her administration’s Gaza policy, on October 29, 2024.
(Celal Gunes / Anadolu via Getty Images)
Amini-brouhaha has erupted over whether the Democratic National Committee has buried a so-called “autopsy” report into Kamala Harris’s loss in the 2024 presidential election. There’s a fear that the report isn’t being released because it suggests that Harris’s defeat was due to her refusal to break with Joe Biden’s disastrous support for Israel’s sustained genocidal assault on Palestinians in Gaza. As a result, some groups are charging the DNC with a cover-up and demanding that the autopsy report be released.
I’ve been on the DNC for more than three decades. I served 16 years on the party’s executive committee and 11 as co-chair of its resolutions committee, and in 2016 I was appointed to serve on that year’s convention platform drafting committee. Finally, this past year, I was appointed by DNC chair Ken Martin to serve on a Middle East Working Group he created to help us sort out how our party deals with America’s policies in the Middle East.
I am no stranger to how the party handles—or, more accurately, avoids handling—issues involving Palestine/Israel. In 1988, I spoke from the Democratic National Convention podium in Atlanta to introduce Jesse Jackson’s platform plank calling for “mutual recognition, territorial compromise, and self-determination for both Israelis and Palestinians. For my efforts, I was asked to withdraw from the DNC, because “party leaders” were concerned that Republicans would use my membership and support for Palestine as an issue in the campaign. (I was reinstated in 1993). On eight occasions over the years, I testified that the party needed to acknowledge Palestinian rights. Having argued and lost this many times, I am well aware of the party establishment’s fear of addressing Palestine.
But I believe that the fight over this autopsy report is not where those of us who support Palestine, and who know that leading Democrats have been on the wrong side of this issue for far too long, should be focusing our energy.
I say this because any report on the Democrats and Gaza would only tell us what we already know: that voters, especially Democrats and independents, are fed …
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