It’s not just “Uncommitted” activists who are pressuring Kamala Harris on Gaza policy. Her own delegates are speaking out.

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  • aleph@lemm.eeEnglish
    643·
    2 months ago

    Smacking a muslim woman protesting a genocide on the head with a WE LOVE JOE sign is a very specific type of irony.

    • Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      121·
      2 months ago

      Yes. For anyone who can’t access the article:

      “They hit us on the head with ‘We Love Joe’ signs,” said Nadia Ahmad, a Florida delegate who snuck the sign into the convention under her clothing. Illinois Gov. “JB Pritzker was close by and they did nothing. Even the ushers did nothing. They just let other people hit us and grab the sign away from us.”

      The sign they had is explained here:

      On Monday, during President Joe Biden’s address to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, a Harris delegate was one of several members of the Florida delegation who unfurled a banner that read “Stop Arming Israel.” Other members of the Florida delegation stood up to block the banner, while some in the section and another section behind the protesters started hitting the banner and the people holding it with their own signs.