My Role With the Democratic Platform Drafting Committee
8 years, 9 months ago

My Role With the Democratic Platform Drafting Committee

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I wasn't going to write about this subject, but something happened yesterday over lunch that prompted me to reconsider. In some ways I fault The Washington Post and other mainstream news outlets for having unleashed the mini-firestorm that followed my recent appointment to the Democratic Party's platform drafting committee. What, however, I found most troubling was the first headline that appeared in The Washington Post announcing "Sanders picks pro-Palestinian activist for Democratic platform committee". But the crude effort to reduce Sanders' entire campaign and my entire life's work to an effort to "get Israel" betrays an unsettling anti-Arab bias and a bizarre obsession to which I must respond. Following that year's convention, Michael Dukakis rejected the endorsement of our Arab American Democratic Federation saying "it was too controversial".

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Left-Wing Protesters Disrupt DNC Candidate Forum, Exposing Ideological Fault Lines
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