An increasingly disaffected base on the left could be disastrous for President Biden in the 2024 elections.
A student protest about the war in Israel and Gaza takes place at UC Berkeley’s Sather Gate on Oct. 16.
There are two pivotal events that seem to have ignited the new era of solidarity between some young American activists and the people of Palestine. The first came in the form of Palestinian activists expressing support on social media for the 2014 protests in Ferguson, Missouri, which activists describe as an uprising, not just a series of protests.
The small delegation included some people who would also become central in the American movement, such as journalist and scholar Marc Lamont Hill. The events during this period reinforced a sense of internationalism among activists and connected a present solidarity with a historical one. It called back to a time when an American figure as notable as Malcolm X spoke out for the Palestinian cause.
The other thing that I initially underestimated is the level of criticism of the Biden administration for its response to this conflict and what effect that might have in 2024. While most activists I spoke to didn’t sound a note as strident as King’s about their voting intentions, several of them sounded an alarm about a possible wave of voter disappointment on the left over Biden’s stance in this conflict.
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