The president’s comment that he has “no confidence” in the civilian death toll in Gaza provided by Palestinians incensed community leaders.
The president’s comment that he has “no confidence” in the civilian death toll in Gaza provided by Palestinians incensed community leaders.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The open disdain toward Biden from many in a reliably Democratic bloc is among the many signs the conflict is quickly remaking U.S. domestic politics, with public fury over a Hamas attack that killed 1,400 Israelis colliding with the horror of entire families in the Gaza Strip being wiped out in Israel’s retaliatory strikes.
Incensed U.S. Arab and Muslim advocacy groups this week called Biden’s remarks about the death count dangerous, and some prominent voices from those communities chimed in on social media, saying that the president had lost them and that they were considering sitting out the 2024 election.
When word got out that the president wanted to meet with community leaders — ones approved by senior staffers — national activists immediately began working the phones to pressure invitees to decline or to accept only on the condition that Biden answer for his remarks about Palestinian deaths.
Two days later, the president made the comments questioning the accuracy of Palestinian casualties at a time when Arabic-language TV channels were showing nonstop footage of lifeless, dust-covered children being pulled from the rubble after Israeli strikes.
Contacted by The Post about the meeting, Ellison said in an email, “Muslim community leaders told President Biden that the suffering of innocent Gazans trying to survive in extremely difficult circumstances has actually increased the likelihood of Islamophobic attacks in the United States.
“It’s really crazy to me that the Democratic party destroyed 20-years … worth of good will with Muslims and Arabs in just 2 weeks, losing an entire generation that was raised in the progressive coalition, possibly forever,” Eman Abdelhadi, a University of Chicago professor of comparative human development who studies Palestinian Americans, wrote Thursday on X, formerly Twitter.
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“Democrats alienate their voters for the umpteenth time”
This is the single most idiotic thing you could do in response.
This may be horrible action from Biden, but throwing away their votes may as well be a vote for Republicans.
And I assure you, they will do much worse
The Democrats have forgotten votes are earned not guaranteed.
I’m not voting for anyone who enables genocide.
Because republicans are so much better at that, yeah?
Use your brain
I’m not voting for Trump. I guess that’s an automatic vote for Biden then?
Oh, it doesn’t work like that? Guess the logic doesn’t work either way then.
Not voting is the most irresponsible thing you can do, and makes you part of the problem
If you throw away your vote, and the worst option wins, it is just as much your fault as the ones that voted for them
Also, you forfeit your right to complain about any of it. You had your choice, you did nothing.
Vote or shut up
“blue no matter who” is how we got into this stupid mess
No. Trump is how we got into this stupid mess.
Trump is the symptom, not the condition
Blue no matter who is only the case because the other option is actual fascists
I agree that it sucks, but I’ll take the people who aren’t actively trying to nazify America over those who are any day.
The Nazis killed innocent women and children which is what Biden is doing in Gaza