Arab Americans in Michigan demand Biden resign ‘as soon as possible’ and insist they will NEVER support him: Progressive anger grows over Joe’s Gaza policy in swing state that could decide election

Arab-American organizations in Michigan are urging President Joe Biden to ‘resign’ as they urge the state’s Democratic voters to cast their votes for ‘unrecorded’ in the Feb. 27 primary .

Arab Americans have been furious with the president since the war between Israel and Hamas began in October. Biden has strongly supported Israel’s counterattacks in the West Bank. In According to the Ministry of Health in Gaza, the death toll has since risen to 29,092 the beginning of the war, with about two-thirds of them being women and children.

Now that anger could have political consequences in a state that could decide which candidate wins the White House in November.

“He must do the right thing for the party and for… the country itself, and he must resign as soon as possible,” haSsan Abdel Salam, member of the Abandon Biden National Coalition, said De Heuvelkrant.

“He is very toxic and we will never support him. He can’t do anything for us to support him. No one can tolerate a policy of death that lasts so long; people need to be held accountable.”

The Abandon Biden movement is targeting the president in the battleground states where withholding the vote could hurt him the most: Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Georgia and Florida.

Additionally, the Michigan chapter has organized rallies with third-party candidates such as Jill Stein and Cornel West to give voters an alternative option to the president.

While Biden faces only token primary opposition, Michigan is one state where he could face a serious challenge on the ballot due to the “uncommitted” option for voters.

Over the weekend, Michigan’s progressive Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib urged voters in the state to choose “uncommitted” over the president in the primary.

‘This is the way you can raise our voices,” said Tlaib, the only Palestinian-American in Congress. ‘Right now we feel completely neglected and unseen by our government. If you want us to be louder, come here and vote without obligation.”

By voting “unfettered,” Tlaib said the goal is to “create a voting bloc, something that is a megaphone to say enough is enough.” We don’t want a country that supports wars, bombs and destruction. We want to support life.’

Biden has been to Michigan to meet with union members but has not met with any Arab-American groups. Vice President Kamala Harris does On Thursday I’m going to Michigan to talk about reproductive rights.

People gather in support of Palestinians outside the site where President Joe Biden speaks with members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) in Michigan

Protesters greeted Biden during his Feb. 1 trip to the battleground state

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) backs effort to vote ‘unfettered’ instead of supporting President Joe Biden in Michigan’s Feb. 27 primary

The state is also competitive in the 2024 general election, where it is increasingly likely that Biden will face a rematch with Donald Trump. The former president has also campaigned heavily in the state.

In Michigan, more than 10,000 voters cast ballots last weekend during the state’s presidential primary — the first two days of early voting. Republicans also choose their presidential candidate.

A solid showing of “uncommitted” in the Democratic primaries could signal trouble for Biden in the November general election.

Biden carried Michigan in 2020 with 154,188 votes. The state has a thriving Arab-American community.

If anger against him continues, the president risks losing some Arab-American voters to third-party candidates, while others may simply stay home.

Abdullah Hammoud, the mayor of Dearborn, which has a large Arab-American population, wrote about the group’s anger in a newspaper op-ed New York Times.

“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.

The White House has taken the situation seriously and sent a group of people last week senior officials to meet with Arab-American leaders in the state. More than 200,000 registered voters in the state are Muslim.

Participants told USA today the officials admitted there had been “mistakes and missteps” in the response to the war in Gaza and apologized for the way the government spoke publicly about the Palestinians.