DNC to overwhelming Democratic base: ‘Not prudent to call out Israel’s genocide and cut off all US genocide weapons.’

DNC to overwhelming Democratic base: ‘Not prudent to call out Israel’s genocide and cut off all US genocide weapons.’

The progressive Democratic base is fed up with America’s enabling of Israeli genocide in Gaza. Over three quarters of the base (77%) are calling Israel’s destruction of Gaza and the Palestinians there what is surely is…genocide. Only 8% of Democrats support Israel’s war on Gaza. Calling the genocide a war on Gaza is akin to calling the Nazi death camps a war on European Jewry.

Astonishingly, at the DNC summer meeting, DNC Chair Ken Martin and his resolutions panel rejected a resolution calling for a US arms embargo to Israel and urging support for a Palestinian state. Martin’s reasoning essentially supports America’s enabling of Israeli genocide.

“I know that there are some who are interested in making changes today, but as we’ve seen, there’s divide in our party on this issue. This is a moment that calls for shared dialogue. It calls for shared advocacy, and that’s why I’ve decided today, at this moment, listening to the testimony and listening to people in our party, to withdraw the resolution.”

Martin and the DNC are not “listening to people in our party.” They're listening to the Joe Biden wing of the Democratic elite totally committed to creation of Greater Israel to maintain US dominance over the Middle East. That dominance is being erected over the bodies of the entire Palestinian population in their own homeland.

Martin and his minions appear oblivious that support of genocide cost Democratic nominee Kamala Harris millions of votes last year, helping propel Trump back into the White House. These voters, disgusted with Democratic support and enabling of Israeli genocide, will never come back till the Party pivots away from genocide to peace and a Palestinian state.

Tragically for Democratic hopes in ’26 and ’28, Ken Martin and the DNC squandered a chance to begin that pivot.

Walt Zlotow, West Suburban Peace Coalition, Glen Ellyn IL