The Democrats' Gaza amnesia could cost them more than an election Opinion

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The Democrats' Gaza amnesia could cost them more than an election | Opinion

The Democratic Party’s long-awaited autopsy of its 2024 election defeat has revealed something more disturbing than strategic incompetence. It has revealed moral cowardice.

In nearly 200 pages dissecting why Kamala Harris lost to Donald Trump, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) somehow failed to mention Gaza even once. Not once. No “Gaza.” No “Palestine.” No “Israel.” No “Arab American.” No “Muslim.” The single most divisive foreign policy issue of the election cycle, the issue that fractured the Democratic coalition, ignited campus protests, alienated young voters and fueled a rebellion within the party base, was erased from the official narrative.

This was not an oversight. It was an act of political denial.

The omission becomes even more glaring because numerous reports, including from outlets across the political spectrum, have already documented what Democratic insiders privately knew: Gaza hurt Harris badly. Axios reported that top Democratic officials working on the still-secret internal report concluded that the Biden administration’s support for Israel’s war in Gaza cost Harris significant support. One policymaker told The Intercept that “the data clearly showed that Gaza had hurt [Joe] Biden and Harris.”

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