'The exclusion of a Palestinian American from the stage felt so deeply offensive, so deeply shocking that it left us stunned,' said Abbas Alawieh, an uncommitted delegate from Michigan.
CHICAGO -- As Vice President Kamala Harris prepares to accept her party's nomination for president at the Democratic National Convention , a group of uncommitted delegates has organized a sit-in outside the United Center , demanding that a Palestinian American be allowed to speak on stage Thursday evening.The group said their request to speak at the DNC this week was denied outright, but they were continuing a sit-in in hopes party leadership would change their mind.
'We got a call last night saying the answer is no. When we asked why, they said the answer is no,' Alawieh said. 'We think excluding a Palestinian American from the stage would be a silencing and exclusion that is not in line with who we are as Democrats.'Many supporters of the uncommitted delegate movement continued to push back at the party's decision at back-to-back events Thursday morning at McCormick Place.
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