The aftermath of the Democratic National Committee’s semiannual meeting that adjourned on Saturday has included extensive criticism for leaving unchallenged the U.S. government’s support for Israel and other policies clearly opposed by most registered Democrats.
The DNC “refused to give any ground to the large majority of the party’s voters with distinctly negative views of Israel,” Norman Solomon writes in The Guardian today. “Last summer, a Quinnipiac Poll found, 77% of Democrats agreed that ‘Israel is committing genocide.’ Last month, an NBC poll found that registered Democrats – by a margin of 67-17% – were more sympathetic toward Palestinians than Israelis. But the DNC continues to operate as if fully sealed off from the party’s voters on such matters.” Solomon is executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy.
DNC member Cameron Landin, the vice president of College Democrats of America, gave a brief speech at the DNC meeting in which he strongly criticized the refusal to take positions in line with the views of sizable majorities of Democratic voters.
Landin told the Institute for Public Accuracy today: “The DNC once again proved its fear to take on the serious issues that matter to voters today, removing mentions of abolishing ICE in a resolution about ICE, refusing to call out the genocide in Palestine, and failing to name who is providing dark money, including AI, crypto, and AIPAC, while just generally saying it is bad. They know what the problem is, and I was encouraged to see many DNC members actually angry and wanting more action from the DNC, but the organization is constrained by its donors and the moderates who refuse to meet the moment.”
CAMERON LANDIN, [email protected]