As the Democratic National Committee, the governing body of the Democratic Party, prepares to convene its semiannual meeting on April 9 in New Orleans, activists are pushing to bring the party into line with the views of registered Democrats on Israel. The DNC Resolutions Committee will meet to consider 32 proposed resolutions, including seven resolutions on Israel and Palestine.
In a Salon piece headlined “It’s Time for Democrats to Face Political Reality on Israel,” Norman Solomon writes: “The Democratic National Committee has evaded the fact that large majorities of Democrats oppose continuing military aid to Israel… An NBC poll released March 16 underscores the depth of the DNC’s political folly. Registered Democrats were asked, ‘Are your sympathies more with the Israelis or more with the Palestinians?’ The results were lopsided: 67% to 17% in favor of Palestinians.”
Adding that “the DNC leadership has stayed on a collision course with political realities about Israel,” the article contends that “no matter how much the DNC leadership tries to shunt it aside, the burning issue of U.S. policy toward Israel will not go away.” Solomon is IPA’s executive director.
Nadia B. Ahmad; [email protected]
Ahmad is a law professor and Democratic Party activist.
Ahmad told the Institute for Public Accuracy that activists like herself are pushing for “transparency and accountability. The DNC has a post-2024 autopsy that hasn’t been released. One of the things they should be doing is [releasing that autopsy]. Democratic voters deserve to know what the party learned about why it lost in 2024 and they need to make that available.
“The slate of resolutions are about bringing the party into alignment with its humanitarian values. This would allow for the Democratic platform to be taken more seriously. Some states––Arizona, New Mexico, North Carolina, Colorado––have passed resolutions on these issues. These are states with large Democratic blocks. We’re just asking the national party to catch up with its own members across the country.”
Ahmad added that the political landscape has shifted dramatically since the last time the resolutions went up for a vote. “The base has moved. Even the field for 2028 presidential candidates has moved. Because of this dramatic change in opinion, and because of the war in Iran, I am cautiously optimistic that [the resolutions] will be passed. In the past, outside groups like AIPAC and DMFI sent people to DNC meetings to block resolutions like this. These groups are afraid of democratic votes taking place in the Democratic Party. But the political terrain has shifted so much. It’s hard to ignore it when people like Rahm Emanuel and Dick Durbin are criticizing AIPAC and bringing up these issues. Even MoveOn and Justice Democrats have made [Palestine] a litmus test. It’s coming from the mainstream of the party, not the fringe.”
Background:
The DNC Approach to Israel Is Political Malpractice and Moral Failure — Common Dreams, Norman Solomon (March 18, 2026). The Middle East Working Group has become a stalling mechanism. A suppressed 2024 autopsy reportedly found Harris’s rigid pro-Israel stance cost her votes.