President Biden is facing intense backlash from Muslim voters and organizations after the House of Representatives passed $26 billion in funding for Israel on Saturday.
The bill also includes funding for Ukraine and Taiwan, and Biden said he would sign the bill as soon as it reaches his desk. Islamic organizations in the United States have been attacking the Biden administration for months for its continued support for Israel, and some believe Biden’s signing of this latest bill could be the final blow.
Robert McCaw, director of government affairs at the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said, “Their callous decision leaves behind the White House’s relationship with America’s Muslim community and other Americans who oppose the genocide in Gaza. There is a possibility that it will show something that is not there.” he told NBC News.
He added: “The administration is already at its worst in terms of relations with America’s Muslim communities.”
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President Biden is facing intense backlash from Muslim voters and organizations after the House of Representatives passed $26 billion in funding for Israel on Saturday. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
CAIR National described the aid as a “blank check” that would allow the Israeli government to purchase “assault weapons used to massacre at least 34,000 Palestinians in Gaza.”
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“Handing Prime Minister Netanyahu this blank check after all the war crimes committed by his regime would make our country fully complicit in the Gaza genocide, and not only American Muslims but many other Americans and Biden “His background against genocide is likely to be a remaining breaking point in his relationship,” CAIR said in a statement.
Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal compared continued support to Israel to the Iraq War. (Getty Images)
Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., also appeared on MSNBC and criticized the bill, likening continued aid to Israel to the Iraq War. Like CAIR, she pointed out that the Israel bill makes no distinction between funding for defensive and offensive weapons.
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“We will continue to monitor the genocide that is occurring in Gaza, and we cannot allow U.S. military support to participate in that genocide,” she said. “This is a moment like the Iraq War, a moment where we wonder if our people are not working with us.”
The anger comes as Muslim voters in key battleground states like Michigan are already threatening to abandon Biden’s re-election efforts.
Muslim and Arab voters in Michigan organized an effort to vote “irresponsible” in the state’s Democratic primary to protest Biden’s support for Israel. (Mostafa Basim/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Muslim and Arab American community leaders refused to meet with Biden’s campaign manager in late January. Michigan’s Arab Americans have traditionally been reliable Democrats, and in 2020 Biden won more than 75% of the vote in the Arab-majority city of Dearborn.
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Michigan is essentially a must-win state for Biden by Election Day.He led the state by just over 150,000 votes against him. former president trump The state’s Arab and Muslim communities number around 300,000 people, and a significant drop in support could swing the pendulum toward Republicans.
