Party platforms reveal the balance of forces of political debate within the major parties. So, what does the Democratic Party platform tell us about the party in 2020?
Every poll on conditioning aid to Israel shows that the Democratic establishment is completely out of step with the people who actually vote for them.
Activists in the Apartheid Off Campus student network discuss the state of BDS in the United Kingdom, and organizing in the time of COVID-19.
On Monday, the Democratic National Committee’s platform committee voted down an amendment that would have added the word “occupation” to its platform and conditioned aid to Israel if the country moved forward with its proposed annexation of the West Bank.
On Tuesday the House of Representatives voted down an amendment that would have cut The Pentagon budget by 10%.
Minutes from a 2016 board meeting of the JUF, a leading Jewish philanthropic group in Chicago, detail an anti-BDS presentation in which the increasing number of U.S. Muslims was identified something to “watch and worry about.” The presentation also expressed concern that the message of pro-Palestine organizations was resonating because Arab and Muslim immigrants were becoming “more sophisticated and integrated into America.”
Last month, over 120 Palestinians in the United States published a list of principles aimed at candidates seeking office in 2020. The “Palestinian Americans’ Statement of Principles and Policies for 2020 Elections” include ending the occupation, support for the Palestinian right of return, and opposition to anti-BDS laws.
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According to data released by the Small Business Administration, Friends of the Israel Defense Forces received a Paycheck Protection Program loan between $2 and $5 million in April.
Ahmad Daraldik was elected student senate president of Florida State University last month, but his victory was immediately condemned by pro-Israel groups. They cite two social media posts one that was made was Daraldik was 12 years old.