Look at this:


This happened during the roll call yesterday by the Washington State delegation, as the state's Democratic Party chair, Jaxon Ravens, was speaking. Majid Al-Bahadli, an Iraqi-American whose family members were executed by Saddam Hussein and who fled his home country, is a Bernie Sanders delegate who was standing behind Ravens.

Al-Bahadli was holding up the sign, which said, "I support Palestinian human rights," until someone yanked it out of his hand.

"I feel really terrible," he told me by phone from Philadelphia today. "This is almost like racism... There is no words to describe it." He said it felt like an effort to censor the Palestinian cause from the convention.

"Why? They're human like us. They should live like everybody else."

Al-Bahadli described how Hillary Clinton's delegates refused to add the word "occupation" to the party platform.

Everyone recognizes Palestinians live under Israeli occupation, he said, "except the Democratic Party."

Varisha Khan, a 20-year-old Muslim-American student at the University of Washington, is another member of the Washington delegation. "If the sign says that I stand for Palestinian human rights, and someone is snatching that sign, I think that says a lot in terms of where people stand on basic human rights at the DNC," she said. "It was really disappointing. That action goes against what the DNC says it stands for."

Khan said she went to the convention hoping to hear the Democrats take a stronger stand against Islamophobia and hate crimes against Muslim-Americans. She was particularly offended by Bill Clinton's remark on Tuesday.

She said she's still wearing an "I support Palestinian human rights" sticker on her convention badge.