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A Palestinian American’s Place Under the Democrats’ Big Tent?

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No Palestinian American is scheduled to address the main stage at the Democratic National Convention .

Frida Ghitis: Despite appeals of Palestinian American delegates and activists, no Palestinian American will address the convention.

Ghitis says Palestinian Americans are home to more Palestinian Americans than anywhere else in the country.

Frida Ghitis: Palestinian Americans have been denied the right to speak their names.

She says the DNC has urged its constituencies to highlight their identities and the collective pain that animates them.

Ghitis spent ten days traveling the lands under Israeli rule in Israel , where she says no Palestinian is equal of any Jewish person.

In McCormick Place and the United Center , it was relatively common to see people in keffiyehs emblazoned with the tag “ Democrats for Palestinian Rights” Alawieh was still hopeful that one of the speakers they’d submitted would be approved.

As of Day 3 of the DNC , the Palestinian permission to narrate was still under consideration.

Ta-Nehisi Coates’s new book, The Message , is out October 1 .