No chance Biden gets votes from Muslims after Gaza ‘genocide’: Council on American-Islamic Relations chief

“We told him directly, in our personal capacities, that if you do not call for an immediate cease-fire, you will not get our votes in 2024,” Nihad Awad, CAIR’s executive director and co-founder, told the media in a video interview.

“There’s no possibility for us to vote for him or give him any support.”

Awad’s remarks came shortly after Biden, responding to a question as he departed for a trip to the state of Illinois, said there is “no possibility” of a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip, where relentless Israeli attacks have now killed nearly 11,000 Palestinians, including more than 7,300 children and women.

“The Biden administration, in our view, has been betraying American Muslim voters and the pro-Palestine movement, who were promised that he would center human rights in his policies, both domestic and foreign,” Awad said.

“What we see is a total violation of human rights, dignity and equality for people abroad, especially for Palestinians.”

He said when people voted for Biden, they were expecting to see a leader who would bring “peace, tranquility and justice for all people.”

“What we see from him is completely one-sided support for the state of Israel,” he said, accusing the administration of giving a “green light” to Israel’s atrocities against Palestinians with “American-supplied weapons, American taxpayers’ dollars, and American political support.”

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There has been a “rampant surge” of Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian and anti-Muslim political rhetoric, as well as the systematic dehumanization of Palestinians and Muslims in the US, according to Awad.

“That led to a huge number and spike in attacks against American Muslims, acts of discrimination, bullying, censorship and hate crimes,” he said, citing the brutal murder of Wadea Al Fayoume, a six-year-old Palestinian boy who was stabbed 26 times in Chicago.

He pointed out that Biden’s “numbers and favorability rate is dropping seriously and severely.”

“He ignored our people and we’re going to ignore him in the elections. No money and no votes for Biden or the Democratic Party.”