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As a Palestinian American, I can’t vote for Joe Biden any more. And I am not alone

www.theguardian.com As a Palestinian-American, I can’t vote for Joe Biden any more. And I am not alone | Ahmed Moor

The president’s moral failure in Gaza has taken on historic proportions, like Lyndon Johnson’s in Vietnam before him

As a Palestinian-American, I can’t vote for Joe Biden any more. And I am not alone | Ahmed Moor

I am a Palestinian American in Pennsylvania, a contested state. I plan to write in “uncommitted” in the Democratic primary on 23 April and in November, I will vote for a third-party candidate.

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For many, myself included, a vote for Biden is simply impermissible – the extent of the moral calamity is so great as to render a vote for Biden a vote for complicity.

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As the president of the Center City mosque in Philadelphia, Mohammed Shariff, said to me: “My vote is the purest form of expression and speech.” President Biden ignores our voices at his own peril, and ours.

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