Uncommitted Movement Protests Democrats’ Refusal To Platform Palestinian-American Speaker at Convention

‘Muslim Women For Harris-Walz’ announced it would be disbanding in protest.

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Pro-Palestinian demonstrators march during a visit by President Biden to Warren, Michigan. AP/Paul Sancya

“Muslim Women for Harris-Walz” is calling it quits after the Uncommitted Nation Movement was told that the Democratic National Convention would not host a Palestinian-American speaker.

Wednesday night, uncommitted delegates to the DNC began a sit-in outside the United Center in Chicago. The protest began after a leader of the movement, Abbas Alawieh, announced that the DNC had declined to let a Palestinian-American or representative of the uncommitted movement speak.

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