Kamala Harris mentioned Palestinians in her DNC speech. But what can Uncommitted delegates expect now?

During Vice President Kamala Harris’s Thursday night speech wherein she accepted the nomination for president at the Democratic National Convention, she specifically mentioned Palestinians.

“What has happened in Gaza over the past 10 months is devastating,” she told the crowd at the United Center in Chicago. “So many innocent lives lost. Desperate, hungry people fleeing for safety, over and over again. The scale of suffering is heartbreaking.”

It was a surprisingly human line in a speech that otherwise touted a muscular foreign policy and patriotism; one that could have easily been delivered by George W Bush at the 2004 Republican National Convention or the late John McCain in 2008.

Harris then went a step further by saying that she and President Biden are “working to end this war, such that Israel is secure, the hostages are released, the suffering in Gaza ends and the Palestinian people can realize their right to dignity, security, freedom and self-determination.” That mirrored the words Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made on the first night of the convention.

But Abbas Alawieh, one of the leaders of the Uncommitted movement, told The Independent he wasn’t fully satisfied with what Harris said.

“I was glad that she mentioned Palestinian dignity, and it did not surprise me that there was thunderous applause, and it's part of what we've been saying: that Democrats widely support Palestinian human rights,” he told The Independent.

Alawieh, a former chief of staff to Representative Cori Bush of Missouri, has led the charge among delegates who represent primary participants who chose to vote “uncommitted” as a way to protest the Biden administration’s policy toward Israel since the October 7 attack by Hamas.

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