Endorsement of Stein and Butch Ware comes as Muslims channel anger over US support for Israel into supporting third parties

The Abandon Harris movement that sprouted late last year out of the widespread outrage over the Biden-Harris administration’s support for the ongoing Israeli war on Gaza has officially endorsed the Green Party’s Jill Stein for US president.

The endorsement is the first of its kind for Stein and the Green Party, with the Abandon Harris campaign being the first major Muslim-led political group to endorse her campaign this election cycle. Last month, a smaller group, the Muslim American Public Affairs Council NC, also endorsed Stein.

“We are not choosing between a greater evil and a lesser evil. We are confronting two destructive forces: one currently overseeing a genocide and another equally committed to continuing it. Both are determined to see it through,” the Abandon Harris campaign said in a statement released on Monday.

  • Guy Dudeman@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    1 month ago

    I am against genocide, and I am acting accordingly. I am voting for the candidate that will cause less genocide, not more.

    • TheOubliette
      21·
      1 month ago

      You’re announcing your vote for the people doing genocide. You don’t get to call yourself anti-genocide. You are for hypothetical-lesser-evil genocide. You do actual advocacy for people doing genocide.

      You’d think that literal genocide might make Democratic voters question their electoral illogic around lesser evil cheerleading. You have the option of, for example, saying nothing.

      In 1930s Germany you’d be a Nazi supporter saying, “well at least I’m not a monarchist antisemite”. Everyone imagines themselves as people who would leave or fight. Now you can see, in part, where the reactionaries and their sympathizers found footing, because you’d have been among them.