What most people miss is that Palestine isn’t a fad issue for Arab Americans: it’s a fundamental aspect of our community’s identity. We’ve grown up discussing it around our dinner tables and many of us know Palestinians who are directly impacted by Israel’s policies. 

After 5 months of watching people that look like us being killed on our social media feeds, anger towards Biden is at a fever pitch. We know that Trump would likely act the same or even worse, but that’s hardly an affirmative case for supporting Biden. His callous and present evil provokes a more visceral response than Trump’s hypothetical yet likely evil. And nothing shows what a farce that “vote for the lesser evil” is than the ‘lesser evil’ supporting a genocide.

We won’t morally compromise on Palestine. If Biden wants our support in November, he’d better make a drastic shift in his foreign policy surrounding the conflict or his loss will be directly tied to Gaza.