Despite the DNCβs best efforts to ignore Gaza, the Uncommitted Movement isnβt going anywhere
In a Dearborn cafe, weeks before the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Abbas Alawieh tells Metro Times, βWe never want to go back to the version of progressive politics where weβre allowed to be progressive on everything except for Palestine.β Alawieh, whoβs the co-founder of the antiwar Uncommitted National Movement, is reflecting an increasingly mainstream position, one that the movement hoped would soon build to a crescendo loud enough to force party leaders to listen. There were reasons to be hopeful.