5-26-2020Joe Biden's campaign removes'racist' anti-Palestinian language from platform – Ali Harb Middle East Eye

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/joe-bidens-campaign-removes-racist-anti-palestinian-language-plat

 

Passage saying BDS lets Palestinians 'off the hook for their choices' has disappeared from Biden's plan for Jewish-American communities…Joe Biden's campaign has watered down an anti-BDS line from his platform for Jewish-American communities, removing "racist" language that angered Palestine solidarity activists.The Biden campaign said in a statement earlier this month that his administration will "firmly reject the BDS movement, which singles out Israel - home to millions of Jews - and too often veers into antisemitism, while letting Palestinians off the hook for their choices." But on Tuesday, that line disappeared from the platform. It was replaced with a pledge to "firmly reject the BDS movement - which singles out Israel and too often veers into anti-Semitism - and fight other efforts to delegitimise Israel on the global stage."  Over the past few weeks, the former vice president's campaign has made a string of pro-Israel statements, but the line about letting "Palestinians off the hook for their choices" particularly incensed Palestinian human rights advocates.  It is not clear why the line was removed, but it followed a wave of anger and ridicule by activists on social media…

 

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