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In October of 2015, a Florida State Senator from Miami, Dwight Bullard, voted against a measure to blacklist companies that endorse BDS. DNC chairwoman and member of Congress, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, told Senator Bullard that his political future was over and top donors to the Florida Democratic Party called Bullard personally and threatened their support for him and the Democratic Party because of his position on the BDS blacklist measure. Senator Bullard eventually lost his reelection campaign earlier this month, after being labeled a “terrorist sympathizer” by media outlets, pro-Israel groups, and by both his Democratic primary opponent and then his Republican general election opponent.

In light of the Democratic National Committee’s voting down of amendment to end Israeli occupation and building of settlements, Palestinian organizer Laila Abdelaziz reflects on the unrecognized intersectionalities between Native Americans and Palestinians; two indigenous peoples tied with a shared struggle against colonialism.