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🗓️ 20 August 2024
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0:00.0 | Over the last few weeks, as Kamala Harris enjoyed a surge in enthusiasm from voters. |
0:14.0 | There's been this question hanging over her campaign. |
0:17.4 | What about Gaza? |
0:20.0 | With Democrats' unity convention this week, this question hangs in the air, |
0:29.0 | waiting to be answered. |
0:31.0 | Democrats' Unity Convention has one giant exception. The about the radical protesters who plan to shut down the DNC for Gaza. |
0:45.0 | And then there are the people inside the convention hall, including about three dozen |
0:49.9 | uncommitted delegates. |
0:52.2 | Back in the spring, these people felt so strongly that President Biden was on the wrong path that they refused to back him as their candidate. |
1:00.0 | Now, they're here to demand more from the Harris campaign, a commitment to an arms embargo on Israel, a permanent ceasefire. |
1:09.0 | Yas Kader is one of these delegates. He's from Washington State. On Monday he showed up on |
1:17.2 | media row to tell me what he is trying to do here at the convention. He was wearing a |
1:22.1 | Democratic majority for Palestine t-shirt and a big |
1:25.2 | button that said not another bomb. You're wearing a kafia, the black and white scarf that's come to represent Palestinian liberation. |
1:35.0 | How often do you wear a kofia these days? |
1:38.0 | It depends. |
1:40.0 | Did you wear it regularly like a year ago? |
1:43.0 | Probably not. |
1:45.0 | No, I wouldn't say that I wore it regularly, |
1:47.0 | but when you have an opportunity to go to the Democratic National Convention |
1:51.0 | and speak on behalf of Palestinian rights in the Palestinian lives, |
1:57.6 | you will be wearing it non-stop as a Palestinian. |
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