Washington-The leaders of the pro-palestinian movement that raised the opposition to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in the 2024 elections are stopped by their strategy in the midst of new criticisms that the Democratic ticket weakened after President Donald Trump said he wants “take charge” of the Gaza. Band.
Trump’s comments, which were a shock for prominent officials in Washington, caused a new round of recriminations among the Democrats for the pressure campaign of the defense groups against Biden and Harris in the presidential contest on the Israel-Ahamas War, Although Trump the record on Trump’s record in the Middle East had been more hostile to the Palestinian cause.
Layla elaborated, a co -chair of the “not committed” movement, who refused to support Harris, Trump or any candidate in the 2024 elections, said he felt “sad, angry and scared by our communities” after Tuesday’s comments of the president, in which he also said that the Palestinians do not have “alternative” to live elsewhere.
But she argued that both parties were the culprit.
“Harris left a vacuum by not visiting Michigan’s families affected by the bombs supplied by the United States to help create a permission structure for their trust, while Trump visited Dearborn and filled a community desperately with lies,” he said Elabed in a statement. “Trump’s illegal calls for ethnic cleaning are horrible, but as in so many other issues, the Democrats had the opportunity to persuade voters that they were the best alternative and exploited it.”
His comment did not sit well with some Democrats.
“People who want to avoid their responsibility. Clowns, ”said a former Harris assistant, granted anonymity to speak frankly.
Other Democrats said that pro-Palestinian activists have the consequences of helping Trump, even if they did not support him, mobilizing voters to reject the only viable alternative.
“The leaders of the unwritten movement want to blame themselves except for their disastrous strategy that helped choose Donald Trump,” said Adam Jentleson, former Democratic Leadership Assistant and recent chief of Cabinet of Senator John Fetterman, D-PA . “They told people not to vote for the Democrats, and now Trump threatens to Annexar Gaza. It was obvious all the time that this would be what happened if Trump won but not committed chose to ignore this crystalline and advanced reality with a deeply irresponsible strategy. They must be responsible to the people who cheated. “
While it is impossible to specify exactly how much the movement affected the result of the 2024 elections, there are signs that it managed to remove voters with Harris democratic tendency. The city with the largest Arab population in County, Dearborn, Michigan, voted for Trump in around 2,600 votes in November after supporting Biden in more than 17,500 votes four years before.
Some Biden sponsors sounded the alarm in March 2024, when around 100,000 Michiganders voted “not compromised” in the Democratic primaries, delivering a reprimand to the then president, since they demanded that their administration ended American assistance to Israel while bombing the strip of Gaza. But Biden and Harris, while recognizing concerns about the high number of deaths in Gaza, were not willing to overturn decades of American politics.
The unwritten movement declined to support Biden or Harris when he assumed the position of Democratic presidential nominee. Nor did he support Trump or another candidate, but involved in his lasting criticisms was that voters could send a message voting for a third party option or even stay at home.
A constellation of related groups of ideas opposed in a similar way to Harris in the 2024 elections, seeing its position in Gaza as a red line.
Hudhayfah Ahmad, an activist and Pro-Palestine spokesman based in Arizona’s headquarters of the group “Abandoned Harris,” he said after Trump’s comment that the Palestinians will protect against him as they did against Biden and Harris.
“In the last 16 months, the full support and without obstacles to the Biden-Harris administration without obstacles to the genocide and ethnic cleaning campaign of Israel has failed to eliminate the Palestinians from Gaza from their lands,” said Ahmad. “It is not Trump, just as it was not Biden or Harris, who decides what the Palestinians can or cannot do; That decision belongs only to the people of Palestine. “
Maamoun Slayhi from Minnesota, who is part of another group called “non -compromised base,” he called Trump’s proposal for the United States to take control of Gaza “irritating” because the United States government has “zero right to be close of that situation. “
But when asked if he regretted not to support Harris about Trump, Slayhi said he didn’t do it because he believed Trump and Harris were “two sides of the same coin.” He said that the American political system is “broken” and that neither Republicans nor the Democrats sought the Palestinians.
“The reality is that we don’t know what would have happened, but it would not have been better under the Harris administration,” Slayhi said. “Harris was not a friend of the Palestinians. She was part of an administration that for 15 months did nothing to avoid greater diffusion. They cannot come to us and say: ‘Oh, we did it.’ When did you do that? 15 months later? 15 months later? After more than 67,000 were killed by Israel. Those are all civilians. That is a ridiculous amount of people who have been killed. “
This position remains agonizing for Biden and Harris assistants, who sought to persuade “not compromised” groups and similar shortly after Israel’s aggressive response to Hamas attack on October 7, 2023 that Trump would be much worse for his cause . Unlike Biden, for example, Trump has not promised to support a solution of two states.
“Even if Trump were hostile with the Palestinians, they needed to ‘punish’ Biden and Harris,” said a former Biden official who spoke with pro-palestinian movement figures. “I warned them that the only people who would punish in helping to choose someone who wants to turn Gaza into a parking lot are the people who claim they are helping.”
The warnings did not work. “It was surprising that there was no recognition of real life and death bets,” said the official, who was granted anonymity to speak frankly. “Everyone respected that there was pain and pain. But how do you ignore that they tell him innumerable times: “Here is a direct Trump appointment that says he wants Gaza to level”? “
Even within the Harris campaign, there was a dissent about whether I needed to adopt a more aggressive position for Gaza.
An organizer of Harris who worked in youth participation said that the senior campaign officials gave an order: when they sent emails of volunteer or collection of mass funds, and the people responded by asking about Gaza, they were told to mark it as “unanswered”. The result? They rarely ended up involved with voters on that subject.
“Nor do we create a new category for Gaza’s responses for fear that the category will be filtered, instead, we were told that we mark them as’ unanswered,” said the organizer, failing in the best leaders of the campaign of the campaign of Harris for not addressing the matter. “The only ‘clowns’ are the ones who were in senior leadership and decided to abdicate on this issue, which silenced a Palestinian speaker in the DNC, and that they told us that we ignore him every time a voter asked us about Gaza.”
Salima Suswell, CEO of the Muslim Leadership Council Black, who was on the sidelines when Biden was the nominated, but finally backed Harris, said that Trump’s comments were “sadly unfolding for many of us who campaigned against Trump, who saw him Like the international threat that he had been the international threat. “
“Trump should have been honest with Muslim and Arab leaders, namely, in Michigan, when he promised to be against war and that would end genocide,” Suswell said. “We see through what he is saying. He has no interest in protecting Palestinian life and has never done so. “
