The Intercept at the DNC: Kamala Harris Mentioned Palestinian Suffering — in the Passive Voice
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🗓️ 23 August 2024
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Summary
At the Democratic National Convention this week in Chicago, Israel’s war on Gaza was the elephant in the room. On this Intercept podcast special, we’re talking about the Democratic Party’s simmering debate about Gaza inside and outside the United Center — culminating in Kamala Harris’s acceptance speech Thursday night. Intercept senior politics reporter Akela Lacy, who is in Chicago reporting on the convention, joins senior editor Ali Gharib to discuss Democrats’ approach to the war and Harris’s speech.
Ahead of the convention, Harris’s ascension raised the possibility of a changed approach to Gaza, and activists organized among delegates in the streets to try to make it happen. Protests raged. The “Uncommitted” movement pushed for Palestinian speaker on the main stage. And Harris’s role in the war got a controversial shoutout from New york Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — sparking some indirect swipes from a fellow member of the progressive Squad.
By Thursday night, the war on Gaza made its way into Harris’s speech. But did her words signal the change in policy that Palestine solidarity advocates were hoping for?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intercept's roundup from the Democratic National Convention. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Ali Khadib and I'm a senior editor at The Intercept. |
| 0:13.2 | And my name is a Kay Lelisi. |
| 0:14.9 | I'm a senior politics reporter at The Intercept. |
| 0:17.4 | So we're recording here on Thursday night and Kamala Harris has just given her |
| 0:21.3 | speech accepting the Democratic nomination to be the party's |
| 0:25.7 | presidential candidate and she did wind up addressing Gaza as sort of the culmination of what had been one of the biggest issues looming over the convention and especially outside where there have been protests to try and change US policy towards Israel's war in Gaza. |
| 0:45.0 | So let's give a listen to what Kamala Harris said about Gaza at tonight's speech. |
| 0:50.6 | Roll clip. |
| 0:51.8 | President Biden and I are working around the clock because now is the time to get a hostage |
| 0:58.8 | deal and a cease-fire deal done and let me be clear and let me be clear I will always stand up for Israel's right to defend itself and I will always |
| 1:19.6 | ensure Israel has the ability to defend itself because the people of Israel |
| 1:25.9 | must never again face the horror that a terrorist organization called |
| 1:31.7 | Hamas calls on October 7. |
| 1:35.0 | Including unspeakable sexual violence and the massacre of young people at a music festival. |
| 1:47.0 | At the same time, what has happened in Gaza over the past 10 months is devastating. So many innocent lives lost. |
| 1:57.0 | Desperate, hungry people fleeing for safety over and over again. |
| 2:07.0 | The scale of suffering is heartbreaking. |
| 2:11.6 | President Biden and I are working to end this war such that Israel is secure, the |
| 2:18.1 | hostages are released, the suffering in Gaza ends, and the Palestinian people can realize their right to dignity, security, freedom, and self-determination. |
| 2:32.0 | Aquila has been in Chicago. self-determination. |
| 2:33.7 | A Kala has been in Chicago all week covering the convention for us and she's been writing a lot |
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