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![Pro-Palestinian demonstrators protest at Union Park as the Democratic National Convention takes place on August 21, 2024, in Chicago, Illinois.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/08/2024_0822-pro-palestine-400x300.jpg)
Spurned by the DNC, the Uncommitted Movement Is Staging a Sit-In for Palestine
If Democrats won't let a Palestinian speak at the convention, it's futile to expect a policy shift, said a spokesperson.
![Police stage near Pro-Palestine protesters demonstrating near the Consulate General of Israel during the second day of the Democratic National Convention on August 20, 2024, in Chicago, Illinois.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/08/2024_0822-dnc-police-400x300.jpg)
Hundreds of Police Smother Palestine Solidarity Protests Outside DNC
Police have managed to make dozens of arrests despite protests remaining largely peaceful.
![A banner reading Boycott, Disinvestment, Sanctions and Against apartheid, boycott Israel is is displayed during a protest in Toulouse, France, on May 18, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/08/2024_0822-bds-400x300.jpg)
Insurance Company AXA Divests From Israel’s Banks and Largest Arms Manufacturer
Organizers for the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement celebrated but urged the campaign to keep pressure up.
![Doctor Recounts Treating Patients in Gaza Injured in US-Enabled Massacres](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/08/seg5-tanya-hospital-mom-baby-polio-400x300.jpg)
Doctor Recounts Treating Patients in Gaza Injured in US-Enabled Massacres
Tanya Haj-Hassan joins demands for Palestinian voices to be allowed to address the DNC onstage.
![A Palestinian girl carries water at a makeshift displacement camp along the roadside in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on August 13, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/08/2024_0822-gaza-water-400x300.jpg)
Israel Is Evacuating Palestinians From Safe Zones With Critical Water Wells
Israel’s ground assault is now so widespread that Palestinians have no escape from the front line.
![People hold a pro-Palestine protest outside the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, on August 21, 2024, the third day of the Democratic National Convention.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/08/2024_0822-dnc-pro-palestine-400x300.jpg)
DNC Tells Uncommitted Delegates There Won’t Be Any Pro-Palestinian Speaker
Uncommitted called it a betrayal of the party platform that claims it values “Israelis and Palestinian lives equally.”
![Palestinian children play near building rubble in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis, August 20, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/08/2024_0821-gaza-k-400x300.jpg)
Israel “Systematically” Uses Gaza Children as Human Shields, Rights Group Finds
Israeli troops have forced children to strip and walk in front of Israeli tanks to avoid getting targeted.
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Doubts Grow Over Blinken’s Claims on Ceasefire Talks as Gaza Overlooked at DNC
Human rights lawyer Zaha Hassan says US policy essentially incentivizes Israel to refuse compromise in the talks.
![Israeli soldiers sit on a tank near the border with the Gaza Strip as seen from a position on the Israeli side of the border on June 28, 2024, in Southern Israel, Israel.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/08/2024_0821-gaza-t-400x300.jpg)
New Israeli Road in Gaza Suggests Plan for Permanent Occupation, Analysis Finds
Israeli forces have spent the last nine months building and clearing the land around a road giving access to Gaza City.
![Protesters wearing keffiyehs march through the streets of downtown Chicago, Illinois](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/08/2024_0821-palestine-dnc-protest-400x300.jpg)
Don’t Fall for Talking Points That Smear Palestine Solidarity Protesters at DNC
Efforts to smear, co-opt and deflate protesters who demand the US end support for the Gaza genocide are well underway.