How the Israel lobby is fighting to turn back grassroots support for Palestine in the Democratic Party — and why it won’t win – Mondoweiss

The Democratic National Committee’s summer meeting in Minneapolis last month ended not in dysfunction, but in deliberate avoidance. At the very moment when grassroots Democrats demanded a clear stand on Gaza, party leaders chose to bury the debate entirely rather than let members vote their conscience. 

DNC Resolution 18, which called for a ceasefire and suspension of military aid to Israel, was first defeated, then a watered-down substitute was quietly withdrawn, and finally…