Michael Moore is warning Vice President Kamala Harris that her “lack of action” concerning a cease-fire within the Israel-Gaza battle, which has killed tens of hundreds up to now 12 months, might price her the important thing battleground state of Michigan — and the presidential election.
The Oscar-winning filmmaker urged Harris in his Substack e-newsletter on Wednesday to make use of her leverage as VP to demand that President Joe Biden dealer a cease-fire deal and withhold U.S. navy support for any nation violating worldwide regulation.
“Your perceived silence and lack of action, your lack of a plan, your continued repetition of the party line — ‘We are close to a ceasefire!’ — as if it’s just around the corner when we all know … that that is not going to happen — rings hollow,” Moore wrote Wednesday.
The “Fahrenheit 9/11” director argued {that a} cease-fire was nonetheless out of attain due to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who Moore has beforehand accused of constructing countless excuses and taking part in Biden “like a sucker.”
Moore famous that Harris’ dedication to proceed Biden’s insurance policies has price her “an active base of support” in Michigan, the place the filmmaker organized a protest in Might — and helped greater than 100,000 voters forged “uncommitted” ballots within the Democratic main.
“The bad news is that it seems the vast majority of Arab voters in Michigan are either going to stay home or … vote but leave the ‘president’ line blank,” he added. “Some will vote 3rd party. As Michelle Goldberg wrote in The New York Times, ‘Lose Michigan, Lose the White House.’”
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Moore nonetheless definitely hopes Harris wins the election in opposition to former President Donald Trump, however mentioned the Palestinian dying toll — which Gaza’s well being ministry estimates is over 40,000 — and the continued famine there is palpably felt by Michigan’s Arab and Muslim People.
“Many have either lost loved ones in Gaza or live with the daily fear that their families and friends still in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon are in a constant state of terror,” he wrote. “It has profoundly affected them. … And it will deeply affect this election.”
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In a latest instance of the continued destruction, Israeli forces burned a camp for displaced Palestinians through an airstrike Monday, killing 4 and wounding dozens.
Moore additionally famous that, whereas Harris and Biden “won nearly 70% of the Arab American vote in Michigan” in 2020, that very same help “has tanked” since Israel’s U.S. government-backed invasion.
“The solution is simple and doable,” wrote Moore. “It does not require you to be critical of President Biden. It simply asks that you side with the American people who in every poll have said that they do not support this war and want an immediate ceasefire.”
