Debate Over Israel Escalates at Key Democratic Party Meeting

The split over pro-Israel spending groups and the party’s posture toward the war in Gaza has only grown since 2024.

Ken Martin, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, listens to speakers during a press conference with Texas Democrats at the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades union hall in Aurora, Ill. on Aug. 5, 2025. Scott Olson/Getty Images

Cameron Landin sat at a microphone in a ballroom full of Democratic National Committee (DNC) members and laid out his case.

A vice president of the College Democrats of America representing his members one final time before his term expires, Landin urged the DNC’s resolutions committee to pass a resolution recognizing what he called “the ongoing heinous and illegal acts against the Palestinian people.”