A mini-brouhaha has erupted over whether or not the Democratic National Committee has buried an “autopsy” report on the party’s loss in the 2024 presidential election. Some fear that the report isn’t being released because it suggests the defeat was the Harris campaign’s failure to break with the Biden administration’s disastrous policy supporting Israel’s genocidal assault on Palestinians in Gaza. They are charging the DNC with a cover-up and demanding that it be released.

I’ve been on the DNC for more than three decades and am no stranger to how the party handles, or avoids handling, issues involving Palestine/Israel. I served 16 years on the party’s Executive Committee and 11 as co-chair of its Resolutions Committee. On eight occasions, I presented testimony arguing that the party needed to acknowledge Palestinian rights, and in 2016, I was appointed to serve on the Convention Platform Drafting Committee. Having argued and lost many times, I am well aware of the party establishment’s fear of addressing Palestinian rights. The tide, however, is turning. This past year, I was........

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