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Pro-Palestinian 'Uncommitted' Group Comes Out Firmly Against Trump

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Uncommitted, the national group of Arab Americans, Muslim Americans and Palestinian rights activists that emerged from primary-season voters protesting President Biden's Middle East policy, took a big step Tuesday toward encouraging supporters to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris.

In a video detailing the plans and suggestions of Trump advisers to expel or displace Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza, Lexi Zeidan, a Dearborn, Mich., resident and co-founder of the group, stopped short of endorsing Ms. Harris. But she concluded, "We have to orient less toward who is the better candidate and more toward what is the better antiwar approach in building our collective power."
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But in the video, Ms. Zeidan, a Palestinian American, bluntly said a second term for former President Donald J. Trump would be worse than a Harris victory. She detailed how Mr. Trump tilted U.S. foreign policy strongly toward the Israeli government in his first term and floated plans that "effectively dismantled any pathway to Palestinian self-determination."

The video takes particular aim at Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation blueprint for a Republican presidency that was crafted in part by allies of Mr. Trump, who has tried to distance itself from its proposals, which include eliminating humanitarian aid to Gaza and the West Bank while stifling pro-Palestinian protests at home. The video includes clips of David Friedman, Mr. Trump's former ambassador to Israel, and Jared Kushner, his son-in-law, who have proposed expulsions from Gaza and annexationof the occupied territories by Israel. It also shows a top Trump donor, Miriam Adelson, promising that the former president would pursue the Israeli far right's policy aims without regard to world opinion.

"It's clear Netanyahu will be doing everything in his power to get Trump elected," Ms. Zeidan concluded, referring to Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister. "And we have to do everything in our power to stop him."
 
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