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President Biden is facing dense pushback from Muslim voters and organizations aft nan House passed $26 cardinal successful backing for Israel pinch his blessing Saturday.
The measure besides includes backing for Ukraine and Taiwan, and Biden said he would motion it arsenic soon arsenic it reaches his desk. U.S. Islamic organizers person been attacking Biden's management for months complete its continued support for Israel, and immoderate opportunity Biden signing this latest authorities would beryllium nan past straw.
"That heartless determination could people nan point of no return for what remains of nan White House’s narration pinch nan American Muslim organization and different Americans opposed to nan genocide successful Gaza," Council connected American-Islamic Relations' authorities affairs head Robert McCaw told NBC News.
"The management is already astatine its lowest constituent successful its narration pinch nan American Muslim community," he added.
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President Biden is facing dense pushback from Muslim voters and organizations aft nan House passed $26 cardinal successful backing for Israel pinch his blessing Saturday. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
CAIR National described nan assistance arsenic a "blank check" allowing nan Israeli authorities to acquisition nan "offensive weapons it has utilized to bulldoze astatine slightest 34,000 Palestinians successful Gaza."
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"Giving Netanyahu this blank cheque aft each of nan warfare crimes his authorities has committed would make our federation afloat complicit successful nan Gaza genocide and apt people a breaking constituent for what remains of Biden's narration pinch not only American Muslims, but galore different Americans of each backgrounds opposed to nan genocide," CAIR wrote successful a statement.
Rep. Pramila Jayapal compared continued support for Israel to nan Iraq war. (Getty Images)
Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., besides criticized nan measure during an quality connected MSNBC, comparing continued support for Israel to nan Iraq war. Like CAIR, she noted that nan Israel measure made nary favoritism betwixt backing for protect and violative weapons.
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"We cannot proceed to watch nan carnage that is happening successful Gaza and person nan U.S. subject assistance beryllium a portion of that carnage," she said. "This is benignant of an Iraq warfare moment. This is simply a infinitesimal wherever I deliberation nan nationalist is not pinch us."
The anger comes arsenic Muslim voters successful cardinal plaything states for illustration Michigan were already threatening to wantonness Biden's re-election effort.
Muslim and Arab voters successful Michigan organized an effort to ballot "uncommitted" successful nan state's Democratic superior to protestation Biden's support for Israel. (Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Muslim and Arab American organization leaders refused to meet pinch Biden's run head successful precocious January. Arab Americans surviving successful Michigan person traditionally been reliable Democrats, pinch Biden carrying complete 75% of nan ballot successful nan Arab-majority metropolis of Dearborn successful 2020.
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Michigan is fundamentally a must-win authorities for Biden travel Election Day. He carried nan authorities by conscionable complete 150,000 votes against former President Trump successful 2020. The Arab and Muslim communities successful nan authorities number astir 300,000, meaning a important driblet successful support could plaything nan pendulum toward Republicans.
Anders Hagstrom is simply a newsman pinch Fox News Digital covering nationalist authorities and awesome breaking news events. Send tips to Anders.Hagstrom@Fox.com, aliases connected Twitter: @Hagstrom_Anders.
