While the choices this cycle may seem so stark, many in my Arab and Muslim community are asking how I can vote for someone who cannot commit to ending the genocide of my people? To a grieving community where so many of them barely survived the first nightmare Donald Trump presidency, but who are also now watching as their families and loved ones are eliminated using our tax dollars and bombs, the choice feels impossible.
I have agonized over this question every single day. Having this conversation right now feels like talking about politics at a funeral. The urgency and complexity is even more intense since early voting started in Georgia, a key swing state. So today, I once again find myself propelled by a grief so overwhelming it has made breathing, let alone making decisions, impossible some days.
Voting this year carries a heavier weight, as it feels like choosing between survival and surrender. Please know this is not fear-mongering. It is a reality. Organizing around Palestine is difficult already with unprecedented efforts to silence and punish advocates. I don’t believe there’s anything worse than genocide. But the reality is a second Trump presidency would ensure continued disaster for our community and far too many other allied communities as well.
For everyone who thinks their vote won’t count.
The anti-vaxxer BC Conservative Party, of whom more than half are functionally Qanon fuckwits, came within 18 votes of preventing an NDP(left wing) majority government in British Columbia.
18 votes, in an election of more than 2 million votes. Go and vote.
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People tripping over themselves to ignore the content of this Palestinian-American’s statement, so they can instead criticize the DNC.
Anyone want to explain to me why she’s wrong for voting for Harris?
I have yet to see anyone advocate that its wrong to vote for harris. Most people are advocating that its fine to vote third party.
Which is then followed by Democrats bitching and moaning that people are helping trump ny not supporting their shitty candidate. A group that apparently is so entitled they think they’re owed that people should vote for their candidate because not trump.
🤷 Harris should be better. Im crossing my fingers she did the math correctly. But who knows
You are privileged or an accelerationist if you don’t vote for Harris. Trump will cause massive damage to Gaza and America.
Wa wa wa. You wont vote for my candidate! Your x your y. Let me know when you learn how to apply contextual information to a situation. For everyone else: deep blue go 3rd, for red make the call based on your environment. For purple you probably want harris to win. Let your critters know what your doing and why.
To be clear, the DNC tried and succeeded in silencing her.
I mean, you are reading a Rolling Stone article written by her.
Not that I agree with the DNC’s point of view here, but it’s not like they cut out her tongue.
Getting an article out there and getting time on stage with the party that you are literally an elected representative of, are quite, quite different things. I watched interviews with Ruwa before and after this happened on Zeteo.
How this campaign has been run; it has show Arab and Muslim voters that they are second, maybe even third or fourth class members of the Democratic party.
Jesus the mental gymnastics you’re pulling to dampen the dissonance of how absolutely horrible the harris campaign has been to our Arab brothers and sisters.
Its on par with Trump’s Puerto Rico nonsense and racism. They’re just not saying the quiet part out loud.
‘we love our Muslim neighbors!’ Proceeds to salt their crops, prevent them from speaking out, handing weapons to their murders.
This truly is the worst timeline. Its a shame the Democrats couldn’t get it together and not support a genocide. Looks like they’ve lost my vote for the foreseeable future in national elections. Probably should have sent Israel that letter with a deadline before the election and then followed through.
When Trump wins due to you not voting for Kamala, and lets Israel and Netanyahu have every weapon they need to “end the war quickly”, by which he actually means finish the genocide of the Palestinians and any other Muslim caught in the crossfire, are you going to celebrate that?
Edit: I agree that the Democratic leadership needs to do more to help the Palestinians. They are at least trying to get aid through and attempting to curb Netanyahu’s worse impulses. Trump has already said he wouldn’t. Israel is a US ally, like it or not, and the government will support them in their defense. If you want that to change, it definitely won’t happen if you let Trump take office.
I am interested to see how downballot elections are impacted. It will be interesting to see how pro-palestinian candidates that survived their primaries compare to the presidenial race.
Will they win where Kamala loses? Or vice versa, etc?
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