Outrage As Democrats Block Palestinian Speakers - w/. Tariq Habash
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🗓️ 27 August 2024
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Amidst genocide, Palestinians have been barred from speaking from the stage of the Democratic National Convention.
Tariq Habash is a Palestinian-American and the first Biden political appointee to resign over Israel's genocidal war - and he's live from Chicago, and tells me about the Democrats' behaviour, whether Kamala Harris has shifted, and what happens next.
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| 0:00.0 | So the Democratic National Convention is of course taking place in Chicago months before the presidential election |
| 0:07.3 | the nominee of course Kamala Harris at the Democrats at the moment are refusing at the time we're broadcasting all doing this |
| 0:14.2 | interview to put a Palestinian speaker on the stage. |
| 0:18.4 | Now this is something which are under growing pressure over, now there's no better person to speak to about this and just generally |
| 0:24.9 | what's happening at the Convention on the Democrats on this issue with the |
| 0:28.0 | Antaric Habash who's the first political appointee of the Biden |
| 0:31.8 | administration to resign over Israel's |
| 0:34.8 | genocidal onslaught and I should also mention he is Palestinian American and |
| 0:39.1 | which is more than relevant given what we're talking about hey Tyke how you doing? |
| 0:42.1 | Hey Owen great to great to be here. |
| 0:44.6 | Could just explain, I mean, refusing to have a Palestinian speaker. We had two parents of an Israeli hostage and their pain was on stage their suffering and |
| 0:58.8 | they mentioned in that the you know the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza, but no Palestinian on a station to talk about that. |
| 1:07.6 | What, just tell us about that and what that actually represents. |
| 1:11.1 | Yeah, I mean it represents the Democratic Party and its continuation of erasing the Palestinian |
| 1:18.4 | identity from the moment, from the party from American society. |
| 1:25.8 | There are so many Palestinian Americans |
| 1:28.6 | who have felt so much pain, indescribable pain every single day for the last 10 months and I think |
| 1:38.7 | likewise there are many Israelis and American Jews and really just Americans across the country who have felt pain for the Israeli families who have suffered as well. |
| 1:48.0 | And I don't think that anyone is upset that Israeli families who had an opportunity to express that pain yesterday, I think it's just the reality that Palestinians continue to be the ones that have to sacrifice who continue to be dehumanized, who continue to be erased |
| 2:05.6 | by this political party, by this political infrastructure in the United States, whether |
| 2:11.4 | Democrat or Republican. |
| 2:12.6 | On one hand, you have a Republican nominee |
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