Pro-Palestine movement and Israelis share common goal for Gaza ceasefire at Kamala Harris’s nomination
t was late in the evening when Ruby Chen, whose son Itay was kidnapped by Hamas on 7 October and later killed, approached and kneeled down next to Abbas Alawieh, a delegate from the “Uncommitted” pro-Palestinian movement who was planning to bed down for the night on the cement outside the venue where
Abbas and Chen share a common cause in their calls for a ceasefire and they exchanged numbers during their brief introduction. But the inclusion by the Democratic National Committee of a hostage family but not a representative of the Palestinian community provoked exasperation over the inequities surrounding the programme at the Democratic party’s biggest show.
On Wednesday evening, Alawieh had Ocasio-Cortez on a video call as he urgently held the sit-in designed to secure a speaking slot for a Palestinian-American at the convention. “I want to send a very strong message that we are mobilising on the outside, but that’s coupled with a very strong inside push,” she said over speakerphone.
“I will always stand up for Israel’s right to defend itself,” she said, in remarks that indicated she would resist calls for an arms embargo. “I will always ensure Israel has the ability to defend itself. “The feeling is that each time we have this buildup, it’s like a rollercoaster, like, you know, you build your hope, your hope’s up, and then suddenly you have that, you know, fall, that you go down, you know, and then you need to try to collect yourself and start this process all over again,” Chen said.
In the US, too, there remains an intentional vagueness in what Harris’s plans for the future are and how she may secure a ceasefire that has eluded the Biden administration.
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