This past week, the global community largely condemned the Israeli government for a strike on a hospital in Gaza that killed 20 people. Israel's strike killed five journalists, including Maryam Abu Daqqa, who worked for The Independent's sister site Independent Arabia.
Ever since the Israeli government began its Gaza-based response to the October 7th terrorist attack in Israel — where Hamas invaders killed more than 1,100 people and took some 200 hostages — the issue has threatened to split the Democratic Party.
This week, the Democratic National Committee's summer meeting became the latest battleground for the party's split on Israel. Progressive activists had wanted to put forward a resolution to withhold military aid to Israel, while DNC Chairman Ken Martin put forward a resolution calling for humanitarian aid to Gaza and an end to the war.
Martin's resolution passed while the one put forth by progressives failed. Then Martin made the most Democratic Party-coded option possible: he retracted his resolution and announced the creation of a task force.
But if Democratic elected leaders and party officials still remain largely supportive of Israel, their voters are moving away from them on the issue.
On Wednesday, a Quinnipiac University poll showed that 50 percent of Americans think Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza.
But while only 20 percent of Republicans think that Israel is committing a genocide, a whopping 77 percent of Democrats say Israel is.
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