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Democrats still have a Gaza problem four months after Kamala Harris’ loss.<\/p>\n

A quartet of progressive advocacy groups are asking the Demcocratic National Committee in a new letter to better engage with pro-Palestinian voters, according to a copy shared with POLITICO \u2014 a sign that the party\u2019s rift over the Israel-Hamas war could stretch into the midterms.<\/p>\n

In the letter<\/a> addressed to DNC Chair Ken Martin and Executive Director Roger Lau, IMEU Policy Project, IfNotNow, Gen-Z for Change and Justice Democrats accuse the Harris campaign of taking policy stances and issuing voter-outreach directives that served to \u201cvillainize\u201d and \u201cignore\u201d Democratic voters who were opposed to Israel\u2019s actions in Gaza and wanted the Biden administration to withhold military aid to the country.<\/p>\n

That includes limiting follow-up to people who responded to campaign text messages by asking about Gaza, according to a Harris campaign organizer granted anonymity to discuss the internal instruction that was previously reported by NBC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The groups are asking the DNC to improve data collection on that front \u2014 and to probe the Harris campaign\u2019s actions on the issue as part of Martin’s promised post-election review. They are asking for a meeting with the newly installed chair ahead of the report\u2019s release to discuss their own voter-engagement experiences over Gaza.<\/p>\n

They also want Martin to assess whether Harris and President Joe Biden\u2019s stances on Israel and Palestine turned away voters, citing post-election polling from IMEU and YouGov that showed \u201cending Israel\u2019s violence in Gaza\u201d was the top issue for nearly 30 percent of voters who cast ballots for Biden in 2020 and someone other than Harris in 2024. The economy was a close second.<\/p>\n

And they’re angling to limit the influence of a powerful pro-Israel advocacy group, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, by calling for a ban on super PAC spending in Democratic primaries \u2014 a signal of potential intra-party clashes over Israel policy to come.<\/p>\n

The DNC did not immediately respond to questions about the letter.<\/p>\n

Pro-Palestinian protests last year over the Biden administration\u2019s handling of the war gave rise to a movement of \u201cuncommitted\u201d voters that opened a schism among traditionally Democratic constituencies<\/a> and damaged Harris in some traditionally Democratic Arab American areas<\/a>. Leaders in those communities have argued in the weeks and months since Harris\u2019 loss that the then-vice president made strategic errors<\/a> by refusing to give a Palestinian American a speaking slot at the Democratic National Convention and shutting down protesters at campaign rallies who criticized her solidarity with Biden in supporting Israel.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe chasm between the Democratic base and the Harris campaign could have been narrowed and course-corrected months prior to the election,\u201d the advocacy groups argued in their letter to Martin. \u201cThe pattern of disregarding and ignoring the issues Democratic voters care about, may it be rising costs of living or ending U.S. complicity in war crimes abroad, will not lead to winning elections.\u201d<\/p>\n

The letter comes days after the arrest of a Palestinian graduate student involved in anti-Israel protests at Columbia University<\/a> re-ignited a debate about immigration, free speech and anti-war protests on college campuses. Since President Donald Trump\u2019s victory in November, pro-Palestinian groups in the U.S. have been confronting the challenge of an administration that has been sharply critical pro-Palestinian movement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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