The Harris campaign doesn’t “seem to care enough about the Arab American vote to do something to get it,” says longtime Dem Party leader James Zogby.
Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a rally at the Dort Financial Center on October 04, 2024 in Flint, Michigan.While Arab Americans voted nearly 60 percent for Joe Biden in 2020, with Donald Trump garnering just 35 percent of their support, the new poll finds Trump winning the Arab American vote 42 to 41 percent over Harris. The picture among likely voters is even worse, with Trump leading 46-42, pointing to a politically perilous enthusiasm gap.
We’ve all seen the protests on campuses and in the streets. What have you seen in the public opinion data?In the Democratic camp, this was the first time more Democrats favored Palestinians than favored Israel, Israelis. That had never happened before either. And the numbers in some cases were 2-to-1.
There is a good-size Palestinian population there. There is, but the main population is Lebanese. And then there’s also Iraqi and Yemeni. But it was never a center for Palestinians, for example, in the way Chicago became one.The Lebanese in Dearborn are mostly Shia from South Lebanon, because when Israel invaded in ‘78 and then in ‘82 intensified and expanded the area that they were occupying, two villages in south Lebanon emptied out to Dearborn.
Of course. The people Jesse Jackson used to call the ‘smart-ass white boys’ are back. As opposed to the ‘80s, they’re not all white, and they’re not all boys. But they’re the class who are smarter-than-God. They have it all figured out. I don’t get it. They hate Netanyahu. They want him out, but whatever he does, they’ll support. And this administration has made judgments along the way that have been perfectly baffling. The president went on television to announce a three-point peace plan. Netanyahu, within an hour and a half, did a tweet saying,What did the White House do? It went to the U.N.
I do find it ironic that Democrats are — rightly — calling out the dehumanization of immigrants by Donald Trump and J.D. Vance in Springfield, Ohio. But they are giving a pass to the dehumanization of people in Gaza and now southern Lebanon. It would be a nightmare. When I go around and speak, and people say, ‘It won’t make a difference,’ I say, ‘Talk to fathers in Springfield, Ohio, who are afraid to send their kids to school. The same thing that is now happening with other immigrants will just as likely happen to you.’
No. A ‘pacifist’? Bullshit. He loves Bibi because Bibi is “winning,” and he would continue to support him winning. The groundwork for the nightmare we’re having now was laid during his term, and I have every reason to believe it would continue. This is not a good guy, and his policy will not be any better. It’ll be worse. But again, trying to make that case to people is a tough one, when on Joe Biden’s watch, who was supposed to be better, they’re seeing a genocide unfold.
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