Co-founder of pro-Palestinian Uncommitted movement says he will vote for Harris [View all]
Source: CNN
Co-founder of pro-Palestinian Uncommitted movement says he will vote for Harris
From CNN's Kaanita Iyer
The co-founder of Uncommitted National Movement shared Tuesday that he will be voting for Vice President Kamala Harris as the group — which ultimately decided to not endorse the Democratic nominee — has warned against former President Donald Trump.
❝“This is a moment where we have to look very clearly at what Donald Trump has planned for our communities and for Arab and Muslim Americans in particular,” Abbas Alawieh told MSNBC, adding that as a former congressional staffer who was at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, he is “no stranger the kind of violence and policy violence that Donald Trump intends to champion in our country.”❞
Alawieh added in the clip shared to the group’s X page that though he will vote for Harris, he hopes a “coalition” of voters, including those who voted for Harris, will put pressure on “the next administration to break from the policy of sending — of sending unconditional weapons and funding to the Israeli military.”
❝He continued: “The Arab American, Muslim American community for months have been oscillating between dealing with our grief, dealing with the fact that so many of our family members are there living under the bombs that our US government is sending Benjamin Netanhyahu, while also trying to do the politically savvy thing.”❞
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Thanks… Couldn’t you have come to this conclusion last week? Or last month?
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