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Rachel Leingang in Chicago

‘This is my political home’: how 30 Gaza ceasefire delegates changed the Democratic convention

Closeup of chest of man in suit, with keffiyeh that says Democrats for Palestinian Rights.
Abbas Alawieh, a Michigan uncommitted delegate, outside the United Center in Chicago on Thursday. Photograph: Matt Rourke/AP

Asma Mohammed organized the uncommitted movement in Minnesota because she “was seeing children who look like my son be massacred”.

June Rose, an uncommitted delegate from Rhode Island, joined the cause because they were raised as an orthodox Jew, kept away from Palestinians and taught that the occupation of Palestine was for their safety. Then Rose went to Palestine. “And I realized that not one single child needs to die in order to keep me safe,” they said.

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