(The Center Square) – An immediate embargo on all military aid, weapons shipments and military logistical support to Israel is within a favored package of resolutions under consideration by the North Carolina Democratic Party.
The State Executive Committee meets on Saturday in Asheville, and a platform and resolutions committee report is on the tentative agenda. The resolution declares Israel guilty of apartheid against Palestinians; genocide in Gaza; and using American weapons in “self defense” against hospitals, schools, homes, refugee camps, mosques, churches, journalists and humanitarian aid workers.
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Further, it cites Gallop polling saying Democrats support Palestinian people (59%) and that Israel’s “assault on Gaza” was the primary reason (29%) that people voting for President Joe Biden did not vote in 2024. It says 62% of young Democrats “support an arms embargo.”
The Center Square was unsuccessful prior to publication of getting comments from Anderson Clayton. She is the state party chairwoman.
The language says the embargo would be supported until “Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and B’tselem certify that Israel is no longer engaged in apartheid rule.”
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The United States has long been an ally of Israel in the Middle East, including being the first to recognize it as an independent state in 1948 under President Harry Truman. History, economy, politics and culture are pivotal ties to the Jewish homeland.
The meeting of Democrats on the campus of AB Technical Community College requires credentials. It begins at 9:30 a.m.