U.S. Palestine Advocacy Org on Trump Win: Reject Scapegoating and Rise Up Together
WASHINGTON, DC, November 6, 2024—As former president Trump wins the 2024 election, the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights Action (USCPR Action) firmly rejects any attempt to scapegoat marginalized communities for elected leaders’ failures to change policy.
Public polling has remained clear throughout this election cycle: A 77% majority of Democratic voters, and 61% majority of all voters, support withdrawing U.S. military funding from Israel. Vice President Kamala Harris would have significantly gained votes in key swing states if she’d supported this popular and commonsense demand.
Harris and her campaign refused to listen to the majority of Democratic voters, doubling down on arming Israel, shaming and silencing protesters who challenged her, and adopting an electoral strategy that shifted to the right to court Republican voters with Dick Cheney’s endorsement.
“This is solely the fault of the Democratic Party for ignoring their base to fund genocide,” said Ahmad Abuznaid, Executive Director of USCPR Action. “For nearly 400 days, the masses have been watching Israel brutally slaughter Palestinian families with our U.S. tax dollars. Politicians will try to redirect rage toward our communities instead of where it should be—on the people in power. Resist any attempt to scapegoat the marginalized, and fight like hell for justice for all.”
An arms embargo now is the bare minimum required to follow U.S. and international law, given the vast and thorough documentation that Israel is using U.S. weapons and military funding to commit acts of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. Instead the Democratic Party handed the election to fascist former president Trump.
“The U.S. has always been a racist and imperialist country founded upon the genocides of Black and Indigenous people, and this election revealed just how far the Democratic Party was willing to go to keep committing genocide,” Abuznaid said. “But our solidarity is our greatest strength. Today is another day we rise up and fight—for Palestine, Lebanon, trans rights, immigrant rights, LANDBACK, climate justice, racial justice, reproductive justice, and all of our communities.”