{"id":126731,"date":"2024-11-17T02:49:56","date_gmt":"2024-11-16T19:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=126731"},"modified":"2024-11-17T02:49:56","modified_gmt":"2024-11-16T19:49:56","slug":"pro-palestinian-activists-anger-at-democrats-hasnt-been-dampened-by-trumps-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=126731","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Palestinian activists\u2019 anger at Democrats hasn\u2019t been dampened by Trump\u2019s election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-editable=\"content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-reorderable=\"content\">\n<p>\n    <cite class=\"source__cite\"><br \/>\n      <span class=\"source__location\" data-editable=\"location\"\/><br \/>\n      <span class=\"source__text\" data-editable=\"source\">CNN<\/span><br \/>\n        \u00a0\u2014\u00a0<br \/>\n    <\/cite>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3je5pk5001q26nr73it9xlt@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            For Democratic pro-Palestinian activists, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/politics\/president-donald-trump-45\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s reelection delivered a bitter vindication.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3je8dtc00093b6m0lbwhxnh@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Led by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/09\/19\/politics\/uncommitted-movement-kamala-harris-trump\/index.html\">Uncommitted National Movement<\/a>, they spent months pushing and pleading with the Biden administration to scale back its support for Israel\u2019s war in Gaza. Their warning had been consistent and direct: Not only did Democrats risk collapsing support among Arab American and Muslim voters in Michigan, but the conflict \u2013 and the continuous flow of military aid to the Israeli government \u2013 could depress enthusiasm among the coalition of young, mostly progressive-minded voters who proved key to Joe Biden\u2019s victory in 2020.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3je8dtc000a3b6m84i1yw2i@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cWe told them that the impact of Gaza was going be bigger than just the Arab community. It\u2019s why the turnout was lower in college areas and among young Black voters,\u201d said James Zogby, co-founder of the Arab American Institute and a Democratic National Committee member for more than 30 years. \u201cFrom the polling we\u2019ve been doing over the last year, we saw it had an impact. And it certainly had an impact on my community.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3je8dtc000b3b6mda2s4tt2@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Early post-election analysis of the race suggests that those concerns were well-founded \u2013 and emblematic of a broader disconnect between party leaders and the Democratic grassroots. Arab Americans, like Latino and Black men, all moved toward Trump in the final accounting. The president-elect\u2019s vote-share improved nearly everywhere, from the red states he\u2019s dominated for nearly a decade to traditionally liberal electorates, where Democrats either stayed home or, to a lesser degree, backed third-party candidates.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3je8dtc000c3b6mozlrkmue@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cWhile Kamala Harris was ignoring communities, especially of Muslim Arab communities here in Dearborn,\u201d Uncommitted co-founder Lexis Zeidan told CNN, Trump \u201cwas coming to these communities and pandering to these communities, and he was capitalizing off of these vulnerable emotions and telling them what they wanted to hear.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<div data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/image\/instances\/cm3ject6c001j3b6m30k59flu@published\" class=\"image image__hide-placeholder\" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-name=\"zedan.jpg\" data-component-name=\"image\" data-observe-resizes=\"\" data-breakpoints=\"{\" image--eq-extra-small=\"\" data-original-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-original-height=\"1080\" data-original-width=\"1920\" data-url=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/zedan.jpg?c=original\" data-editable=\"settings\">\n<div class=\"image__container \" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-breakpoints=\"{\" image--eq-extra-small=\"\">\n       <picture class=\"image__picture\"><source height=\"1080\" width=\"1920\" media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/zedan.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"1080\" width=\"1920\" media=\"(min-width: 960px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/zedan.jpg?q=w_1015,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"1080\" width=\"1920\" media=\"(min-width: 480px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/zedan.jpg?q=w_1160,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"1080\" width=\"1920\" media=\"(max-width: 479px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/zedan.jpg?q=w_680,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/zedan.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill\" alt=\"Lexi Zeidan is interviewed by CNN.\" class=\"image__dam-img image__dam-img--loading\" onload=\"this.classList.remove('image__dam-img--loading')\" onerror=\"imageLoadError(this)\" height=\"1080\" width=\"1920\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3je8dtc000d3b6mfdce6zrg@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Dearborn, Michigan, is home to the country\u2019s largest Arab American population. As the results came the night of the election, its shift away from the top of the Democratic ticket startled even some of the most passionate activists.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3je8dtc000e3b6my5ff47he@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Four years after Biden dominated there, Trump got 42% of the vote, a plurality. Green Party nominee Jill Stein nearly cracked 20%. Harris landed in the middle, with 36%. According to national exit polls, more than 6 in 10 Muslims voted for the Democrat \u2013 a clear majority, but a stark decline from past cycles.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3je8dtc000f3b6mpr0h2ic7@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Zeidan and other allies in the movement also pointed to Harris\u2019 letdowns with other minority voters that had traditional broken strongly for Democrats.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3je8dtc000g3b6muytd5diz@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cThis (election) wasn\u2019t a referendum on Gaza policy,\u201d Zeidan said. \u201cWhat (the national results) showed you is that she not only was sidelining \u2018uncommitted\u2019 and Arab and Muslim voters, but she was sidelining other communities of color as well \u2013 working class, climate justice, the Latina and Latino community.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3je8dtc000h3b6mb6ws18v4@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Wa\u2019el Alzayat, CEO of the Muslim American advocacy organization Emgage, guessed that Harris\u2019 Muslim support might have come in as high as 90% if she had clearly signaled plans to break from Biden\u2019s policy in the region. Emgage ultimately endorsed Harris, despite some of its members\u2019 misgivings, arguing that \u201cpursuing an anti-war agenda had a better shot under (the Democrat\u2019s) administration.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3je8dtc000i3b6mfw3erj3c@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Trump\u2019s initial planned appointments, Alzayat said, confirmed his anxieties.\n    <\/p>\n<div data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/image\/instances\/cm3jebd19001h3b6moeyc9gxu@published\" class=\"image image__hide-placeholder\" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-name=\"AP24269011590419.jpg\" data-component-name=\"image\" data-observe-resizes=\"\" data-breakpoints=\"{\" image--eq-extra-small=\"\" data-original-ratio=\"0.6666666666666666\" data-original-height=\"4000\" data-original-width=\"6000\" data-url=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/ap24269011590419.jpg?c=original\" data-editable=\"settings\">\n<div class=\"image__container \" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-breakpoints=\"{\" image--eq-extra-small=\"\">\n       <picture class=\"image__picture\"><source height=\"4000\" width=\"6000\" media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/ap24269011590419.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"4000\" width=\"6000\" media=\"(min-width: 960px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/ap24269011590419.jpg?q=w_1015,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"4000\" width=\"6000\" media=\"(min-width: 480px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/ap24269011590419.jpg?q=w_1160,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"4000\" width=\"6000\" media=\"(max-width: 479px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/ap24269011590419.jpg?q=w_680,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/ap24269011590419.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill\" alt=\"Wa'el Alzayat, CEO of Emgage Action, poses for a photograph in Chevy Chase, Maryland, on April 9, 2024.\" class=\"image__dam-img image__dam-img--loading\" onload=\"this.classList.remove('image__dam-img--loading')\" onerror=\"imageLoadError(this)\" height=\"4000\" width=\"6000\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3je8dtc000j3b6m1lu2kz2y@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cWhat kind of peace and freedom for the Palestinians are we going have under Mike Huckabee and Tulsi Gabbard? My God. And Matt Gaetz. What kind of rights are pro-Palestinian students going to have?\u201d he said, naming Trump\u2019s controversial picks for ambassador to Israel, national intelligence director and attorney general, respectively.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3je8dtc000k3b6mkjijogak@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            That fear and frustration, though, has not translated to guilt. Activists and voters who spoke to CNN over the past three days unanimously rejected any suggestion that their work was to blame for Harris\u2019 unraveling.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3je8dtc000l3b6mimhkh6wu@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cI don\u2019t have any regrets,\u201d Uncommitted spokesman and strategist Waleed Shahid told CNN. \u201cWe tried our best to bridge the campaign and the party with the community. Tried to help the campaign help themselves by changing their policy position and doing something that was in the mutual self-interest of the community and the party.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3je8dtc000m3b6mk8wbchqc@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cAnd they rejected those offers pretty plainly.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3je8dtc000n3b6mhn4c16br@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Uncommitted most memorably led a push at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago this summer to allow a Palestinian-American speaker to address the party. After weeks of back-and-forth, on the final night of the confab, party officials inside the United Center told Uncommitted leaders it was a no-go.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3je8dtc000o3b6mkfbyxut2@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Michigan Democrats, led by the state party chair Lavora Barnes, objected immediately \u2013 first in a brief interview with CNN, then in a statement to reporters.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3je8dtc000p3b6m9dwp0x5l@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cThe thing I\u2019ve been saying and I will always say is that these uncommitted voters are our voters, they\u2019re our family,\u201d Barnes told CNN at the time. \u201cThey are good Democrats who have an issue that they want to voice, and they have every right to voice it.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3je8dtc000q3b6mp96rn1eq@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain, another prominent Michigan-based leader, also condemned the decision, accusing the party of putting \u201cour heads in the sand\u201d and ignoring the festering anger.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3je8dtc000r3b6m9ndozcpg@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Georgia state Rep. Ruwa Romman would have been the one to speak that night, had convention organizers allowed it. Romman said she had even watered down her remarks in a bid to ease the transaction. She did, in the end, deliver her speech \u2013 to a group of Uncommitted leaders and allies who began a sit-in outside the convention.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3je8dtc000s3b6mufgypghu@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Months later, Romman, who was reelected to her statehouse seat last week, told CNN she has only become more troubled by the Harris campaign\u2019s refusal, as she saw it, to acknowledge the depth of suffering among Palestinian- and Lebanese-American emigrees, long stalwarts of the Democratic coalition.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3je8dtc000t3b6mkigibfe9@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cIf you needed our votes to save you, you should have acted like it,\u201d Romman said of Democrats now wagging their fingers at the Arab American community. \u201cYes, Trump is way worse. Am I happy that he\u2019s an office? No, I\u2019m terrified and I did all that I could to prevent that.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3je8dtc000u3b6mk8385iyz@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            In Dearborn, Arab American voters speaking to CNN expressed frustration with Trump\u2019s early moves, but insisted they were not anguishing over their votes.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3je8dtc000v3b6mzduazqyq@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cI feel good that I don\u2019t have blood on my hands,\u201d said Dalal Baydoun, who voted for Stein. \u201cBecause like I said, they\u2019re all with genocide, so having to not be a part of all that makes me feel good.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<div data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/image\/instances\/cm3jeding001l3b6mv0uepug1@published\" class=\"image image__hide-placeholder\" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-name=\"Dalal Baydoun,.jpg\" data-component-name=\"image\" data-observe-resizes=\"\" data-breakpoints=\"{\" image--eq-extra-small=\"\" data-original-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-original-height=\"1080\" data-original-width=\"1920\" data-url=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/dalal-baydoun.jpg?c=original\" data-editable=\"settings\">\n<div class=\"image__container \" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-breakpoints=\"{\" image--eq-extra-small=\"\">\n       <picture class=\"image__picture\"><source height=\"1080\" width=\"1920\" media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/dalal-baydoun.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"1080\" width=\"1920\" media=\"(min-width: 960px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/dalal-baydoun.jpg?q=w_1015,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"1080\" width=\"1920\" media=\"(min-width: 480px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/dalal-baydoun.jpg?q=w_1160,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"1080\" width=\"1920\" media=\"(max-width: 479px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/dalal-baydoun.jpg?q=w_680,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/dalal-baydoun.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill\" alt=\"Dalal Baydoun voted for Jill Stein.\" class=\"image__dam-img image__dam-img--loading\" onload=\"this.classList.remove('image__dam-img--loading')\" onerror=\"imageLoadError(this)\" height=\"1080\" width=\"1920\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3je8dtc000w3b6mdnvk4l57@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The global debate over how to describe or define Israel\u2019s actions in Gaza, the occupied West Bank and, increasingly, in Lebanon, has often overshadowed the less complicated reality on the ground here, where the opposition is diverse, organized and angry.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3je8dtc000x3b6m3947798x@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            A United Nations report out Friday said Israel\u2019s offensive in Gaza \u201cis consistent with the characteristics of genocide,\u201d citing mass civilian casualties and using starvation as a weapon. An onslaught that began as a reprisal against Hamas following the terror group\u2019s October 7, 2023, rampage in southern Israel, has, from the perspective of international observers, become a global scandal.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3je8dtc000y3b6my82o8fzq@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Last week, the UN Human Rights Office said it \u201cfound close to 70 per cent to be children and women, indicating a systematic violation of the fundamental principles of international humanitarian law\u201d on the part of the Israeli military.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3je8dtc000z3b6mqw2eln4s@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            That report landed at about the same time Biden\u2019s Departments of State and Defense said \u2013 after a weeks-long review \u2013 that they could not \u201cverify\u201d whether Israel used American-made weapons in violation of international humanitarian law.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3je8dtc00103b6m0a1lcih0@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Close watchers of Harris\u2019 rhetoric during the campaign sniffed out a subtle shift during her final days on the stump in Michigan. Her talk about ending the war in Gaza had become more robust.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3je8dtc00113b6miwnqxnrp@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cThis year has been difficult, given the scale of death and destruction in Gaza and given the civilian casualties and displacement in Lebanon, it is devastating,\u201d Harris said during an late rally in East Lansing, home to Michigan State University. \u201cAnd as president, I will do everything in my power to end the war in Gaza, to bring home the hostages, end the suffering in Gaza, ensure Israel is secure, and ensure the Palestinian people can realize their right to dignity, freedom, security and self-determination.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3je8dtc00123b6m3xrmm8s4@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Activists were hopeful, they said, but worried that it was still too little \u2013 and coming way too late in the campaign. Former President Bill Clinton had already deepened the wounds, calling Gaza the \u201chardest issue here,\u201d before effectively arguing Israel\u2019s actions in Gaza were, if not justified, then understandable.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3je8dtc00133b6myxdzsgaw@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cI understand why young Palestinian and Arab Americans in Michigan think too many people have died, I get that,\u201d Clinton said. \u201cBut if you lived in one of those kibbutzim in Israel, right next to Gaza, where the people there were the most pro-friendship with Palestine, most pro-two state solution of any of the Israeli communities, were the ones right next to Gaza. And Hamas butchered them.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3je8dtc00143b6m6qj94dm6@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Clinton\u2019s remarks were the capper, multiple operatives told CNN, on a campaign that seemed unable \u2013 or unwilling \u2013 to see how its broader strategy of trying to lure moderate Republicans by embracing former Rep. Liz Cheney and her father, Iraq War architect and former Vice President Dick Cheney, was further undermining its case with Arab Americans.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3je8dtc00153b6mjv2ejdw7@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cIf there\u2019s one person Muslims and Arabs hate more, or about the same as Donald Trump,\u201d Shahid said, \u201cit\u2019s probably Dick Cheney.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3je8dtc00163b6mdeh5plof@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Zogby, who said he is now planning to run for a vice chair slot on the Democratic National Committee, also questioned the campaign\u2019s decision to lean on Liz Cheney, describing it as a slap in the face to Arab Americans.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3je8dtd00173b6mjtvjqh6g@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Still, Zogby added, for all the missteps and slights, he is \u201cnot happy with my community\u201d \u2013 and said Trump\u2019s early round of policy and personnel moves predicted darker days to come.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3je8dtd00183b6mlk7ovt2b@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cThere\u2019s going to be a reckoning for this,\u201d he said of Arab American support for Trump. \u201cThose who said, we\u2019re going teach Democrats a lesson, or maybe Trump\u2019s better in a second term, well, they\u2019re already getting their reckoning, and he\u2019s not even started this term.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph paragraph_contributors inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_contributors\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3je5siu00003b6me3s4dei3@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            CNN\u2019s Danny Freeman and Yon Pomeranz contributed to this report.\n    <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/11\/16\/politics\/pro-palestine-activists-trump-democrats\/index.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN \u00a0\u2014\u00a0 For Democratic pro-Palestinian activists, Donald Trump\u2019s reelection delivered a bitter vindication. 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