The Safe Movement The pro-Palestinian Democratic Party is withholding its endorsement from Vice President Kamala Harris after rejecting her latest request, the group announced Thursday, while making clear its opposition to former President Donald Trump and the United States. third party candidates who may unwittingly help choose it.
“Vice President Harris’s unwillingness to move on an unconditional gun policy or issue a public campaign statement in support of existing US and international human rights laws has made it impossible for us to support him,” the group said in a statement. NBC News ahead of the release.
The group said Harris treated her coldly and was “trying” to refuse even her “small gesture”. A Palestinian American is allowed to speak at the Democratic National Convention last month.
“Now the campaign of the vice president is of interest Dick Cheney Disenchanted anti-war voices are pushed aside, prompting them to consider third-party options or sit out this important election.”
Harris’ campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The group said the most important issue for pro-Palestinian voters is stopping Trump, whose “agenda includes plans to accelerate the massacre in Gaza while intensifying the suppression of anti-war organizations.”
“We must block Donald Trump, so we urge undecided voters to vote against him and avoid third-party candidates who may inadvertently boost his chances, as Trump openly boasts that third parties will help his candidacy,” the group said.
There’s Green Party candidate Jill Stein and leftist third party candidate Cornel West both are very focused About recruiting voters sympathetic to the cause of Palestine, each chose a Muslim American candidate and addressed a gathering of disaffected Arab Americans in Dearborn, Michigan last week.
Apparently, their work is paying off interest group surveys This suggests that Stein and West do better among Muslim and Arab Americans than among Americans overall.
The Safe Movement emerged As a result of Democratic voters expressing their dissatisfaction with this year’s Democratic Party presidential primaries. President Joe Biden was essentially unopposed, so voters who wanted to register their displeasure with his support for Israel’s bombing of Gaza after the Oct. 7 terror attacks instead chose the “not threatened” option on their ballots.
More than 700,000 voters chose “unrestricted,” sending 30 non-loyal delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
The undecided bloc, smothered among some 4,000 delegates at the convention, was too small to push for any changes in the party’s platform or rules, but large enough to force organizers to take their presence seriously — as well as their potential to disrupt the convention. proceedings.
Still, the delegates preferred Harris over Biden, believing him to be more sympathetic and credible to the Palestinian cause, so they didn’t break convention even though organizers told them there would be no room on the schedule for a Palestinian-American speaker.
Instead, non-committal representatives held a sit-in outside the congressional floor and set a new date of September 15 for Harris to meet in Michigan with the families of Palestinian Americans who lost loved ones in Gaza.
According to the group, that request was also denied, leading to Harris’ disapproval.
All along, the delegates insisted they were loyal Democrats who despised Trump. They said they needed something to take home to their community to show that Harris had an ear. But that loyalty also meant Harris’ campaign understood its advantage in any negotiations with delegates reluctant to do anything to help Trump.
Now, while not endorsing Harris, the movement is also directing supporters to him, saying Trump and third-party candidates are off the table, encouraging them to “register to vote anti-Trump.”
“Pro-war forces like AIPAC may want to get us out of the Democratic Party,” the group said, referring to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a pro-Israel lobbying group. “But we’re here to stay.”