(FamilyConservationPAC.com) – In an attempt to get the DNC to allow a pro-Palestinian speaker to speak on the main stage before the convention ends on Thursday night, about 40 or so undecided delegates and their supporters slept on the pavement outside the United Center in Chicago on Wednesday.
“We didn’t come here to do a sit-in,” claimed Abbas Alawieh, a delegate from Michigan and a leader of the Uncommitted National Movement, which supports a ceasefire in Gaza. “We’re just sitting here waiting for a call.”
NOW: Uncommitted delegates cry and hug as they stage PROTEST sit-in outside of United Center on Night 3 of the DNC asking for a Palestinian-Americans to be allowed to speak from the stage. They refuse to leave until they get a call from vice president Harris to allow them to… pic.twitter.com/ty0Syrnj6a
— Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) August 22, 2024
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Growing number of Democrats say #NotAnotherBomb , as they protest the Democratic National Convention. pic.twitter.com/0ftFTRYv8Y
— Abraham Stein (@AbrahamStein8) August 21, 2024
A pro-Palestinian speaker was the “bare minimum” that Layla Elabed, another leader of the Uncommitted National Movement and the sister of far-left Representative Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), claimed Democrats should provide.
“We heard Hersh’s story,” Alawieh continued. “We were moved by … the humanity in that story. And we are Democrats who have a party platform that says our party values every … life and every Palestinian life equally. And so we think we should also be featuring a Palestinian-American speaker from this stage.”
So far, several well-known elected Democrats, such as Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rep. Summer Lee of Pennsylvania, have visited the sit-in.
Similar-minded UAW members have also volunteered their assistance.
“This has been an embarrassment for those of us who had faith in the Democratic Party that we still had voices here,” Elabed said.
“Our values, our votes, and our rightful place in the Democratic Party cannot be taken for granted,” she stated Monday night.
Uncommitted Rhode Island delegate June Rose likewise called a pro-Palestinian speaker “the least [the DNC] could do.”
“We need meaningful policy change,” Rose continued. “We as Democrats cannot oppose Donald Trump’s fascism at home while supporting Benjamin Netanyahu’s genocide abroad.”
Convention leaders have permitted pro-Palestinian speakers to speak at smaller DNC gatherings and events but not on the main platform.
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— News18 (@CNNnews18) August 22, 2024
As a result, according to reports, members of the Muslim Women for Harris-Walz group have formally dissolved and stopped supporting the Democratic ticket.
According to the Daily Caller, just one day had passed since 44 delegates on Tuesday voted “present” during the DNC roll call when the sit-in got underway.
Most of the 36 delegates, also supporters of the Uncommitted movement, are probably among the 44 delegates representing 13 states:
Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, Ohio, Texas, and Washington.
The DNC held a virtual roll call earlier this month, and Harris garnered more than twice the number of votes from delegates required to win the nomination, so the in-person roll call was mainly symbolic.
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