{"id":43334,"date":"2025-08-19T13:26:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T20:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=43334"},"modified":"2025-08-19T13:26:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T20:26:19","slug":"dnc-leadership-pressured-gen-z-member-to-kill-resolution-on-banning-arms-to-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/08\/19\/dnc-leadership-pressured-gen-z-member-to-kill-resolution-on-banning-arms-to-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"DNC LEADERSHIP PRESSURED GEN Z MEMBER TO KILL RESOLUTION ON BANNING ARMS TO ISRAEL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Democrats say they need enthusiasm among young voters. They aren\u2019t listening to what Gen Z wants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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August 15 2025 (TheIntercept.com)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin speaks with Angelenos in Los Angeles on July 30, 2025. Photo: Sarah Reingewirtz\/MediaNews Group\/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WHEN IT COMES<\/strong> to Israel\u2019s handling of the war on Gaza, Democrats are nearly united. Only 8 percent of party members support Israel\u2019s military actions, according to a Gallup poll<\/a> from last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A vote at the Democratic National Committee meeting later this month could once again expose the yawning rift between the party\u2019s base and its leaders, who are lining up to oppose a resolution against arms for Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Allison Minnerly, the 26-year-old committee member sponsoring the measure, told The Intercept Thursday that Democratic leaders risk further alienating party members \u2014 especially young voters \u2014 if they kill the symbolic resolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur voters, our base, they are saying that they do not want U.S. dollars to enable further death and starvation anywhere across the world, particularly in Gaza,\u201d said Minnerly, a first-term DNC member from Florida. \u201cI don\u2019t think it should be a hard decision for us to say that clearly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Minnerly\u2019s resolution has reopened a simmering debate in the party\u2019s top ranks over the war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In August 2024, Democratic National Convention delegates approved on a carefully worded platform <\/a>that backed giving Israel a \u201cqualitative military edge\u201d while pursuing a two-state solution and a \u201cdurable end to the war in Gaza.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The party platform outraged <\/a>the delegates with the Uncommitted movement who had hoped to pressure <\/a>Vice President Kamala Harris into breaking with President Joe Biden and supporting an arms embargo<\/a> on Israel<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The pressure from rank-and-file party members has only grown in response<\/a> to the unfolding famine<\/a> in Gaza. In a first, most Senate Democrats voted last month in favor of a resolution<\/a> to block offensive arms sales to Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those Democrats, many of them senior citizens, were catching up with the sentiment of younger voters regardless of party. In February 2024, only 16 percent of adults under 30 supported giving military aid to Israel versus 56 percent of people 65 and older, according to a Pew Research Center poll.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Minnerly\u2019s proposed resolution cites the Senate vote and public polls in calling on Democratic elected officials to support an immediate ceasefire, enact an arms embargo, suspend military aid, and recognize Palestine as a state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After Minnerly put forward her resolution on August 4, she said, representatives of DNC Chair Ken Martin reached out to propose a compromise. But the proposal they offered did not go far enough in calling for pressure on Israel, she said. \u201cUltimately it was clear to me the conversation they\u2019re having is different from the reality today,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In response to Minnerly\u2019s resolution, Martin and other party leaders have offered one of their own that largely mirrors the 2024 party platform and does not call for the suspension of military aid to Israel, according to a copy obtained by The Intercept and reports from multiple<\/a> outlets<\/a>. (The DNC did not respond to a request for comment.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pro-Israel Democratic groups have come out swinging against Minnerly\u2019s resolution, focusing on its lack of language condemning Hamas and calling for the language to include the release of Israeli hostages<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cShould it advance, it will further divide our Party, provide a gift to Republicans, and send a signal that will embolden Israel\u2019s adversaries. As we get closer to the midterms, Democrats need to be united, not continuing intra-party fights that don\u2019t get us closer to taking back Congress,\u201d said<\/a> Brian Romick, the head of Democratic Majority for Israel, a pro-Israel group <\/a>aligned with right-wing groups that get Republican funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Minnerly said the resolution focuses on Israel because that is where the U.S. has leverage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe U.S. government directly interacts with the Israeli government,\u201d she said. \u201cWe do not have a direct line of communication with Hamas, or the ability to necessarily influence their decisions.\u201dRead Our Complete CoverageIsrael\u2019s War on Gaza<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Minnerly\u2019s resolution is co-sponsored by DNC members from Maine, California, and Florida, according to a copy she shared with The Intercept. Still, that support pales in comparison to the influential party members who lined up behind the Martin-backed resolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Minnerly acknowledged that winning the vote would be a \u201cchallenge.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI am optimistic that people are willing and open to have this conversation. It\u2019s just going to take political courage,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A DNC committee is set to vote August 26 on the competing resolutions, Minnerly said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regardless of which symbolic resolution the DNC supports, individual elected officials will be free to vote how they choose in Congress or elsewhere. Still, Matt Duss, a former foreign policy adviser to Sen. Bernie Sanders, said \u201cthe position of the DNC does matter. It sets the tone for the entire party.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI look at these two resolutions, and the first one is simply just regurgitating the same old language used by the Biden administration. It\u2019s basically meaningless,\u201d Duss said. \u201cWhat has been missing all along in the Democratic Party\u2019s approach is consequences for human rights abuses when Israel commits them.\u201dShare<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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