The uptick in criticism from progressives and Democrats overall for his response to the war is a real danger to the president, whose pro-Israel stance could result in him losing votes in 2024 in critical states like Michigan, where grassroots organizations are calling on voters to "Abandon Biden."
With the Democratic primary in Michigan less than a week away, the voices calling for Biden to back a permanent end to the fighting in Gaza are growing louder, indicating the president so far has a no-win political path on the situation.
Our Revolution, a progressive political organizing group founded by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), is reaching out to Michiganders to encourage them to pick an "uncommitted" option that will appear on their primary ballots Tuesday.
Biden's performance in the Tuesday primary in the Detroit-area town of Dearborn, Mich., where Arab Americans make up the majority of the population, will be telling of how deep the sense of betrayal is felt among the community.
Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud (D) said this week that Arab Americans who voted for Biden in 2020 are now being ignored.
"My greatest fear is that Mr. Biden will not be remembered as the president who saved American democracy in 2020 but rather as the president who sacrificed it for Benjamin Netanyahu in 2024," he wrote in an opinion piece, referring to the Israeli prime minister.
Biden and his administration at the start of the war offered unrelenting support for Israel following an Oct. 7 massacre committed by Hamas that killed some 1,200 Israelis and took hundreds more hostage.
But as the Palestinian death toll grew into the thousands, and then tens of thousands, following a military bombardment by Israel of Gaza that continues today, Arab Americans have felt that the White House's subsequent urging of Israel to take into account civilian lives and let more humanitarian aid through falls exceedingly short.
The Biden administration has been involved in months of negotiations for a temporary pause in fighting of about six weeks between Israel and Hamas to release the remaining hostages taken during the Oct. 7 attacks, but so far no deal has come to fruition between Israel and Hamas.
Read the full report at TheHill.com.
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