‘Sidelining antiwar voices’: US Uncommitted Movement not endorsing Harris
Al Jazeera
Group says Donald Trump must be stopped but Kamala Harris’s inaction on Gaza makes endorsement impossible.
Washington, DC – The Uncommitted National Movement, a grassroots effort in the United States that is seeking to pressure the Democratic Party to shift its policy towards Israel amid the Gaza war, says it cannot endorse Kamala Harris for president.
The group said on Thursday that Harris’s team had failed to respond to its request for a meeting with representatives and families of Palestinians killed in the Gaza Strip by a September 15 deadline.
The movement has been pushing for Harris, the US vice president and 2024 Democratic presidential candidate, to agree to suspend American weapons transfers to Israel during the war, which has killed more than 41,000 Palestinians since early October.
But with less than 50 days before the election, Harris has repeatedly doused the prospect that she would support conditioning military aid to Israel, extinguishing hopes she would represent a significant pivot from the policies of Democratic President Joe Biden, the group said.
“Our movement cannot endorse the vice president,” Abbas Alawieh, one of the Uncommitted National Movement’s leaders, said during a virtual news conference on Thursday morning.
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