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Democrats Attacked a Muslim Woman for Protesting Biden’s Speech. She’s a Harris Delegate.

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21.08.2024

Criticisms of the Biden administration’s policy toward Israel are not only coming from uncommitted delegates. They’re also coming from people trying to get Vice President Kamala Harris elected.

On Monday, during President Joe Biden’s address to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, a Harris delegate was one of several members of the Florida delegation who unfurled a banner that read “Stop Arming Israel.” Other members of the Florida delegation stood up to block the banner, while some in the section and another section behind the protesters started hitting the banner and the people holding it with their own signs.

“They hit us on the head with ‘We Love Joe’ signs.”

“They hit us on the head with ‘We Love Joe’ signs,” said Nadia Ahmad, a Florida delegate who snuck the sign into the convention under her clothing. Illinois Gov. “JB Pritzker was close by and they did nothing. Even the ushers did nothing. They just let other people hit us and grab the sign away from us.”

Ahmad said the box behind her, where people were seen leaning over to hit her and the banner, was designated for the Laborers’ International Union of North America. (Spokespersons for the labor union, Pritzker, and the DNC did not immediately respond to requests for comment.)

Though mainstream Democrats have derided pro-Palestine demonstrators as outsiders who would hurt Democrats’ chances, Ahmad is a Muslim delegate from Florida who is committed to Harris. She is not part of the “Uncommitted” movement.

The Uncommitted movement says it has organized at least 200 total delegates to sign a pledge pushing the administration to secure a permanent ceasefire in Gaza. Only 30 of the pledge signatories, however, are uncommitted. Most of them, like Ahmad, are avowed Harris supporters.

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© The Intercept


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