CHICAGO – “I have held the hand of children who are taking their last gasps because their entire family was killed in the same attack,” said Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan on Monday during a panel at the Democratic National Convention, focused on Palestinian human rights. “For the children who I treated, who were discharged…they face a Russian roulette of 100 ways that they will likely and potentially die when leaving the hospitals due to the circumstances incompatible with life that have been architectured by this military assault, direct bombing, starvation, dehydration, disease, alarming reports of the first cases of polio in Gaza right now.”
Haj-Hassan recounted her experiences working as a surgeon in Gaza. She was joined by several other guests, including Hala Hijazi, a party organizer who has lost some 100 family members in Gaza, and former Michigan Rep. Andy Levin, who has been described as part of “America's only Jewish political dynasty”. (Later this week, Mehdi will host a roundtable discussion here in Chicago with Levin and prominent voices in the Uncommitted movement, so keep an eye out for that.)
“The panel showed that there is actually a collection of voter bases that are committed to the safety, dignity, and life of Palestinians and Palestinian humanity,” Mohammed Khader, policy manager of US Campaign for Palestinian Rights Action, told Zeteo.
The question, though, is whether such words are falling onto deaf ears, or a new political apparatus ready to heed what millions of people in the U.S. and globally have been demanding for nearly a year.
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