Organizers offer an inside look at the hard-fought “Uncommitted” campaign to pressure Biden on Gaza.
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators protest in Dearborn, Michigan, as President Joe Biden attends the NAACP Freedom Fund dinner in nearby Detroit on May 19, 2024.rolled out a groundswell campaign across nine states urging participants to vote in protest of President Joe Biden’s role in the Gaza genocide. With November’s Trump-Biden rematch not yet an entirely foregone conclusion, the primaries offered an opportunity to send a message to elected officials.
Michigan, of course, has a high population of Muslim Americans, Arab Americans and Palestinian Americans, among others, and their vote will be critical in deciding who wins the swing state. Perhaps lesser-known is that New Jersey has one of the top percentages of Muslim residents of any state in the U.S.
Uncommitted NJ was able to enlist the help of allied organizations, including the Council on American-Islamic Relations , Action NJ and Jewish Voice for Peace North Jersey, along with the NJ Muslim Civic Coalition. CAIR, Action NJ and JVP lent Uncommitted NJ real material support, “even holding their own phone banking and canvasses” for the effort, Mughal added.
This defies conventional logic about presidential elections. “George Bush got reelected in the middle of the Iraq War. Lyndon Johnson got in the middle of Vietnam. But what we’re seeing right now is quite different. People really do not want the U.S. to be supporting the Israeli government in this genocide — and we also don’t want to be at war anymore!” Harvey said. “It’s not just rhetoric from antiwar activists.
, Biden and the Democrats can exert immense power over the behavior of their client state. It’s merely that they have, until very recently,that Gaza might well cost them the election, Biden is clearly moving to shore up what remains of his support.
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