The founders of the Uncommitted National Movement claimed that Kamala Harris « expressed an openness » to meeting with them to discuss an arms embargo against the Jewish State.
The founders of the Uncommitted National Movement — the group that mobilized more than 100,000 people to withhold their votes from President Biden in the Michigan primary over his support for Israel — claimed that Kamala Harris “expressed an openness” to meeting with them to discuss an arms embargo against the Jewish State.
“I had a moment yesterday to briefly engage with VP Kamala Harris and Governor Tim Walz in the photo lineup,” founder Layla Elabed said in a video posted to X on Thursday.
“I said, ‘Michigan voters right now want a way to support you, but we can’t do that without a policy change that saves lives in Gaza right now… Will you meet with us to talk about an arms embargo?”
The Uncommitted National Movement leaders were among those invited to welcome Harris and Walz to Michigan in a photo line on Wednesday.
Elabed then said the Democratic presidential nominee agreed to meet with the group.
“She said yes I will meet with you. And I understand when she agreed to meet with me, she wasn’t agreeing to an arms embargo, she was agreeing to discuss an arms embargo and discuss a policy that will save lives now in Gaza and hopefully get us to a point where we can put our support behind VP Harris,” Elabed explained.
Fellow Uncommitted Movement founder Abbas Alawieh seconded Elabed’s account of Harris’ agreement to meet — and also claimed that Democratic Party leaders showed sympathy with their desire for an arms embargo.
