The cause of Kamala Harris’s disastrous failure in the 2024 presidential election will forever be debated, but there are good reasons to believe the Israeli genocide in Gaza played a significant role.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/22390256

By Mitchell Plitnick
November 9, 2024

Mitchell Plitnick is the president of ReThinking Foreign Policy. He is the co-author, with Marc Lamont Hill, of Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics. Mitchell’s previous positions include vice president at the Foundation for Middle East Peace, Director of the US Office of B’Tselem, and Co-Director of Jewish Voice for Peace.

  • eldavi@lemmy.ml
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    10 days ago

    When people protested the continuing support for Israel’s genocide, Harris’ response was “I’m speaking.” It’s hard to imagine a better example of Democrats showing themselves as self-important, uncaring, and entitled than that response. In effect, Harris told everyone who cares about Palestine to just shut up about genocide and defer to her.

    that was the exact moment when i could no longer convince myself to vote for her after wrestling over it due to project 2025 & ukraine and i think if she had not gone diet-republican on immigration, i wouldn't have been wrestling about it at the time.

    • stink@lemmygrad.ml
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      10 days ago

      Agreed. When Biden was still the candidate, I was telling my friends that I would vote for her, I just couldn't on good conscience lie to myself and vote for Biden while he was killing my family overseas.

      When she pulled the "I'm speaking" stunt, she lost all credibility with me, and those libs covering their ears / mocking dead Gazans was also a factor.

      The Democratic Party is a party I will never stand behind. I used to "vote blue no matter who!", phone banked, voted in every single local election, when I was in college I donated money I quite literally didn't have to ActBlue.

      I got genocide against my people as a thank you. Dems can cry all they want about how trump would be worse. It already is the worst it can be for my people, where were they at the protests? 90% of the dems I had added on social media posted nothing about Palestine, but the second Trump is in office they decide to post pictures of themselves crying?

      They can fuck off in my opinion. The same grief they felt when they woke up to the results on November 6th is the same grief the entire Arab community and I have been feeling every day when we wake up to the news on how many of our people were evaporated from bombs.

      • eldavi@lemmy.ml
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        10 days ago

        i think i benefit from not knowing who my ancestors were and that they were genocided out of existence in this country until i was well into adulthood; because i don't have to experience the visceral reaction you're sharing.

        studying this identity and my experiences that came as a results of my other identities have taught me that democrats are being mislead in service to maintaining our systems and; even when they know they're being manipulated; they still go along with the program because it benefits them to do so.

        it's cliche and you're justified in hating me for parroting it: "don't hate the player, hate the game"