First Ever DNC Panel on Palestinian Rights: We Need to Restore the Soul of the Democratic Party

Support our work: This year, the Democratic National Convention held its firstever panel on Palestinian human rights. The panel came after persistent grassroots organizing against U. S. support for Israels assault on Gaza. We play excerpts, including from the Arab American Institutes James Zogby, a former executive member of the Democratic National Committee; Dr. Tanya HajHassan, a pediatric intensive care surgeon who recently worked in Gaza; and Layla Elabed, cochair of the Uncommitted National Movement. Later that day, during President Bidens convention speech, protesters standing near the Florida delegation unfolded a banner proclaiming Stop Arming Israel. Democracy Now was at the scene. We speak with one of the protesting delegates, Liano Sharon, an elected DNC delegate from Michigan, as he was escorted off the convention floor. Sharon, who is Jewish, told Democracy Now that he participated in the action because never again me