{"id":2330718,"date":"2024-08-25T16:23:02","date_gmt":"2024-08-25T20:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/summer-lee-believes-dnc-missed-an-opportunity-not-including-palestinian-speaker-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-08-25T16:24:16","modified_gmt":"2024-08-25T20:24:16","slug":"summer-lee-believes-dnc-missed-an-opportunity-not-including-palestinian-speaker-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/summer-lee-believes-dnc-missed-an-opportunity-not-including-palestinian-speaker-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Lee believes DNC \u2018missed an opportunity\u2019 not including Palestinian speaker &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsummer-lee-believes-dnc-missed-an-opportunity-not-including-palestinian-speaker-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2330718&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Rep. Summer Lee\u2063 (D-PA) criticized\u200b the\u200c Democratic \u200bNational \u200bConvention (DNC) for \u200cnot including\u200c a Palestinian speaker\u2064 to address the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-reduces-support-for-s-arabia-in-another-boon-to-iran\/\" title=\"Biden reduces support for S. Arabia in another boon to Iran\">ongoing conflict<\/a> in Gaza between Israel and Hamas. Lee noted that \u2062while the parents of an Israeli-American <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chicago-public-schools-reaches-tentative-reopening-deal-with-teachers-union-students-may-return-this-week\/\" title=\"Chicago Public Schools Reaches \u2018Tentative\u2019 Reopening Deal With Teachers Union, Students May Return This Week\">held hostage<\/a> by\u200d Hamas were given \u2063a\u2062 platform, the absence of a Palestinian voice was \u200ba missed opportunity \u2064for dialogue and representation. She echoed the sentiments of Rep. Ro Khanna\u2062 (D-CA), who described \u2064the exclusion of\u2062 a Palestinian speaker \u200das a\u2062 &#8220;tragic mistake.&#8221; During her appearance on CBS News&#8217; Face the Nation, Lee \u200bemphasized that both the Black Lives Matter\u2063 movement and the Palestinian rights movement often face dismissive attitudes towards their methods of \u2063protest, highlighting a broader pattern of undermining marginalized voices in political discourse.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Summer Lee believes DNC &lsquo;missed an opportunity&rsquo; not including Palestinian speaker<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1736971\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/house-democrats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Democratic National Convention\">Summer Lee<\/a> (D-PA) echoed sentiments that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/democratic-national-convention\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Democratic National Convention\">Democratic National Convention<\/a> &ldquo;missed an opportunity&rdquo; by not having a Palestinian speaker discuss the war in <a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/gaza\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Gaza\">Gaza<\/a> between Israel and Hamas.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>During the four nights of the DNC, the parents of an Israeli American being held hostage by Hamas spoke, but &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/anti-israel-activists-who-sought-to-oust-biden-put-pressure-on-harris-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Anti-Israel activists who sought to oust Biden put pressure on Harris - Washington Examiner\">uncommitted&#038;rdquo<\/a>; delegates were not given a speaking slot to allow anti-Israel activists to speak. Lee, who has been a fierce critic of Israel, agreed with Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), who had <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RoKhanna\/status\/1826674536462647384\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"posted\">posted<\/a> that not including a Palestinian speaker was a &ldquo;tragic mistake,&rdquo; when she spoke on CBS News&rsquo;s <em>Face the Nation<\/em> on Sunday.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 640px; max-height: 360px; min-width: 320px; min-height: 180px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; padding-top: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/share.grabien.com\/share.php?id=2566002&amp;userid=11311&amp;loginid=10455&amp;playercolor=%23000000&amp;playersize=auto&amp;code=9ae8551e828549dafea442b43e3847ec\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0px;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&ldquo;I think that, whether it&rsquo;s the Black lives movement or the movement for Palestinian rights, there&rsquo;s always this rush to say that their movement, the ways that they protest, the tactics, the strategies are inconvenient,&rdquo; Lee said. &ldquo;And I think that that&rsquo;s just the way that we&rsquo;ve done it, especially when we&rsquo;re nervous about a presidential election that we all know is incredibly important.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>She also emphasized that while Democrats&rsquo; top concern is beating former President Donald Trump in November, there was still an opportunity to have someone speak from the other side of the Israel-Hamas conflict.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We missed an opportunity to do that here. And in doing so, what we are essentially saying is that every Palestinian thinks the exact same way, that all folks who are protesting who are voicing their concerns are one group, and not individuals, not all folks who are coming with different perspectives,&rdquo; she added.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Protests against Vice President Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party&rsquo;s stance on the war in Gaza were held during the DNC, but they were fairly minor in their impact on the convention and the proceedings in Chicago. <\/p>\n<p>During Harris&rsquo;s nomination acceptance speech, she reiterated a call for the release of the hostages along with a ceasefire and a two-state solution between Israel and Gaza.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1736971\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1736971\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Summer Lee (D-PA) expressed her belief that the Democratic National Convention (DNC) &#8220;missed an opportunity&#8221; by not featuring a Palestinian speaker to address the ongoing conflict in Gaza between Israel and Hamas. Throughout the four nights of the DNC, while parents of an Israeli American hostage spoke, delegates who were &#8220;uncommitted&#8221; were not given a platform to allow anti-Israel voices to be heard. Lee, a vocal critic of Israel, aligned with Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), who described the absence of a Palestinian speaker as a &#8220;tragic mistake&#8221; during her appearance on CBS News&#8217;s Face the Nation on Sunday. She remarked that movements like Black Lives Matter and those advocating for Palestinian rights often face criticism for their methods and strategies, especially when there is anxiety surrounding an important presidential election. While acknowledging that defeating former President Donald Trump is a primary concern for Democrats, she noted there was still room to include diverse perspectives from both sides of the Israel-Hamas conflict at the convention. Lee emphasized that failing to do so implies that all Palestinians share identical views and overlooks individual differences among those expressing their concerns. Although protests against Vice President Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party&#8217;s position on Gaza occurred during the DNC, they had minimal impact on the overall proceedings in Chicago. In her acceptance speech for nomination, Harris reiterated calls for hostage release alongside advocating for a ceasefire and a two-state solution between Israel and Gaza<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2638,"featured_media":2330719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/summer-lee-dnc-gaza.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[7705,32467,38977,39240,32076],"class_list":["post-2330718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dnc","tag-missed-opportunity","tag-palestinian-speaker","tag-summer-lee","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/summer-lee-dnc-gaza.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2638"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2330718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2330719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2330718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2330718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2330718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}