The pro-Israel group DMFI, an AIPAC ally, wants to undermine a Michigan protest vote against Joe Biden’s support for Israel’s war on Gaza.

Anti-war Michiganders are banding together in the crucial swing state to urge fellow voters to choose the “uncommitted” slot on their Democratic Party primary ballots next week, with the aim of getting President Joe Biden to shift his stance of unwavering support for Israel’s deadly assault on the Gaza Strip.

Now, a centrist Democratic pro-Israel group is running an ad campaign in the state to persuade Michiganders to be vocal in their support of Biden — and tick the box next to his name on the primary ballot.

The moves are a Democrat-focused version of the wider pro-Israel push to unseat members of Congress who criticize Israel’s rights abuses against Palestinians, call for a ceasefire in the war on Gaza, and move to limit or restrict arms sales to Israel. The attacks have targeted progressives, particularly members of the Squad.

Organizers of the campaign to select “uncommitted” say they intend the protest vote as a vote of no confidence on Biden’s support for Israel’s war on Gaza — and a warning that having voters dissatisfied with his position could come back to bite the president in the general election.

  • AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Israel is bad. It’s not that complicated. Hamas is also bad.

    Hamas is a less effective evil than Israel is. That’s just how it is. No one is suggesting we send weapons to Hamas, we should just stop sending any form of aid at all to Israel unless they immediately stopped the genocide campaign, surrender their murderous leadership to the Hague, and immediately stop the illegal settlements.

    That would be a good first step for Israel to show the whole world that it actually isn’t evil, and just was led by an evil person.

    How about in exchange for Israel stopping this new Holocaust we continue to agree not to aid, enable, or tolerate anybody who aids Hamas? We can’t do it alone though We need Israel to stop propping up Hamas.

    Also let’s just never give them any more money ever again. Obviously if they have free college and universal health care they can pay their own fucking bills.

    • cooljacob204@kbin.social
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      7 months ago

      Why don’t you people ever demand that Hamas do the same and release the hostages???

      we continue to agree not to aid, enable, or tolerate anybody who aids Hamas?

      That was the policy pre October 7th and since basically forever. Didn’t stop the massacre from happening.

      I won’t pretend Israel did nothing wrong and is completely in the right (because we all know that would be a lie) but you’re downplaying just how horrible Hamas is.

      • AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        Hamas is Israel’s baby. Benjamin Netanyahu made it what it is today intentionally and specifically to undermine the legitimacy of palestine’s right to its own self-determination.

        October 7th was an inevitable response to the intentionally murderous apartheid prison state Israel has built to house the native population. The ethnic cleansing didn’t start on October 7th, And it was the government of Israel that allowed it to happen both directly through funding Hamas and indirectly through ignoring all of the warnings leading up to that.

        Israel is holding lots of hostages and murdering lots of children. They’ve also murdered lots of The Israeli hostages taken by Hamas when they’re being released.

        Israel let October 7th happen, they sacrificed their own civilians in a ghoulish attempt to create a pretext to finish the extermination of the Palestinian people whose land they have taken.

        No one’s down playing how bad Hamas is, maybe Benjamin Netanyahu shouldn’t have encouraged funding them all these years.

        I’m saying Israel is at least as bad because they have the same exact goal (ethnically cleansing a population they don’t like from a country they think they own) but the only difference is Israel has lots of weapons and gets to do whatever it wants without even having to pay for its own bills or face any kind of international scrutiny.

        In a just world, Israel sends the genocidal leadership of their own government to the Hague, ends the illegal settlements, ends the apartheid state, and starts paying reparations to the Palestinians they have been abusing for over 70 years.

        Anything short of that and Israel is choosing violence, war, and genocide.

        The problem is Israel.

        Israel is making a really good case right now for why they might not be mature enough to manage their own state.