Jill Stein explains how Muslim American voters could sink Kamala Harris

According to Jill Stein, who spoke with the media report, she is grateful for the momentum she is generating among Muslim Americans, a support base that might hurt Vice President Kamala Harris come November.

According to recent surveys, Stein leads Harris among Muslim voters in a number of competitive states, such as Arizona, Michigan, and Wisconsin. This suggests that Stein’s Green Party might play a crucial role in shifting the election away from Harris and toward the former president, Donald Trump.

“We’re grateful for the strong support of Muslim voters who share with us the determination to end genocide in Gaza and the injustice faced by our Muslim friends,” Stein said in a statement to a media report. “All people of conscience are urged to reject the propaganda that suggests voting for genocide while holding your nose. Voting in favor of genocide is actively supporting and facilitating it. Do not allow them to convince you to lose your humanity.”

According to polls, Stein has no chance of competing nationwide against either the Republican candidate, Trump, or the Democratic nominee, Harris. According to RealClearPolitics figures as of Friday, Harris had 48.1 percent of likely votes, compared to 46 percent for Trump and only 1 percent for Stein.

However, her position on Gaza has benefited her with Muslim voters. At 29% of the vote overall, Stein and Harris are almost deadlocked with Trump at 11.2 and Cornel West at 4.2. According to a Council on American-Islamic Relations study, 16.5 percent of Muslim Americans are still unsure, and over 9 percent said they would not be voting.

Stein, 74, called ending Israel’s military assault in the Gaza Strip the “greatest moral imperative of our time.” According to local authorities, since Hamas militants attacked Israel on October 7, Israeli forces have killed over 41,000 Palestinians and kidnapped an additional 250.

“Half a million Palestinian lives hang in the balance from starvation imposed by Israel, according to the UN,” Stein said. “Now polio and cholera are intensifying the threat.”

When asked for a reaction to concerns expressed by Muslim voters, Morgan Finkelstein, the national security spokeswoman for the Harris campaign, previously directed a media report to the vice president’s comments made at the Sept. 10 debate versus Trump.

After the October 7 assaults, Harris defended Israel’s right to self-defense while also stating that “far too many innocent Palestinians have been killed.”

Harris said, “We know that this war has to end.”

She also promised to “chart a course” for a two-state solution and to keep working “around the clock” on a ceasefire agreement.

In terms of Muslim American voters, Stein is behind Harris in the swing states of Georgia and Pennsylvania. She said that her campaign’s backers would contribute to the momentum that will eventually result in a ceasefire in Gaza and an American arms embargo on Israel.

“Every vote against genocide is a shot across the bow of empire, announcing that its days are numbered and that the opposition is getting organized,” Stein said.

“Power does not yield anything in the absence of a demand, as Frederick Douglass famously said. That demand is your vote. “Choosing the lesser of two evils eliminates your opposition to genocide,” the Black abolitionist and civil rights activist from the 19th century said.

In July, the British Green Party created a precedent by adopting a firm stand on Gaza and going on to gain four extra seats in Parliament thanks to a wave of support from Muslims.

According to a June CBS News survey, more than half of Americans (61 percent) disagree that the US should arm Israel, and 37% think US President Joe Biden should urge Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stop his country’s military activities in Gaza.

In a statement released on Thursday, Stein denounced Netanyahu for “his ongoing atrocities in Gaza” and charged the Israeli prime minister with war crimes while Washington does nothing.

“His actions, enabled by U.S. support, demand immediate and uncompromising accountability,” Stein said. “Ongoing U.S. support for genocide in Gaza and the long list of U.S. wars since WWII underscore the continuing relevance of Martin Luther King’s observation that our country is ‘the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.'”

The study conducted last month indicates that among Muslims in Nevada, Trump leads both Harris and Stein. However, Stein’s hopes of becoming a spoiler in Nevada were severely damaged on Friday when the Supreme Court turned down the Green Party’s request for her to be included on ballots in the state. Biden won Nevada by a mere 33,000 votes in 2020.

Stein thinks that people who don’t feel involved in politics will be drawn to her anti-genocide, pro-worker platform. In addition, she wants to abolish mass imprisonment and advocate for free public higher education, a $25 minimum hourly wage for all workers, and national rent control.

“The political elites want you to think you are small and powerless, and that resistance is futile,” Stein said. “We can pay for these programs by cutting the massive bloated military budget and requiring the rich to pay their fair share of taxes.”

According to Stein, U.S. officials need to abandon a militaristic foreign policy in favor of one centered on international law, human rights, and diplomacy in order to create a country where all people may prosper. This change would free up billions of dollars to be used for addressing American priorities.

Stein’s statement continued, “The Muslim-American community has the experience, the insight, and the moral fiber to stand up and lead the way.” “When we come together as students, Jews, Christians, and other people of faith and humanity, we can create a world that benefits everyone and is unstoppable.” We have to begin creating that world right now.”

Yasmeen Khan, 24, of Raleigh, North Carolina, said she intends to vote for Stein even though she backed Biden in 2020. According to surveys, Harris and Trump are practically deadlocked in this crucial swing state.

“Kamala Harris doesn’t really respect the sentiment of a lot of what we’re going through, just in terms of witnessing people suffering in Palestine specifically,” Khan, a Muslim, told a media report. “I’ll use the term crude to describe the Democratic Party’s handling of it. They quickly downplay the actual misery we are experiencing.”

Khan said that Republicans and Democrats alike were trying to profit from the Israel-Hamas conflict.

The 65-year-old Abdulhamid Ali of Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, claims that Harris is only “lip service” to him and other Muslim Americans who want a ban on American weaponry going to Israel and a lasting truce in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.

According to the media report, “I want to see a concrete plan,” said Ali. “For her to say, ‘I will create a free and democratic Palestinian state, and these are the steps we will take.'”

In a statement released on Friday, a coalition of Muslim political organizations urged all American Muslims to vote candidates like Stein, West, or Libertarian Party contender Chase Oliver who favor a weapons embargo against Israel and a lasting ceasefire in Gaza.

Because Harris has not offered to explore ending US military backing for Israel or make any modifications to the Biden administration’s support of Israel’s military activities in Gaza, the American Muslim 2024 Election Task Force has rejected her endorsement.

The organization claimed in a statement that “American Muslims have the potential to significantly influence local and national elections by voting strategically.” They may then back politicians who promote civil rights, racial equality, freedom of religion, the rule of law, free expression, and an ethical foreign policy. When casting your vote, it’s critical to keep in mind who politicians backed or opposed student demonstrations and municipal ceasefire resolutions.”