>> PRESIDENT BIDEN SET IS NOT TIME FOR A CEASE-FIRE FOR SPARKING ANGER NOT ONLY AMONGST LIBERAL DEMOCRATS IN CONGRESS BUT ALSO YOUNG MUSLIM AND ARAB- AMERICAN VOTERS.

BOATS FROM THESE COMMUNITIES IN THE SWING STATE OF MICHIGAN WERE INSTRUMENTAL TO BIDENS 2020 PRESIDENTIAL WIN.

SENIOR DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST SHAHEED TELLS -- THAT IS AT RISK FOR 2024 AS THIS NEW WAR IGNITES POLITICS AND PASSIONS.

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WE HAVE SEEN PROTESTS IN DIFFERENT CITIES AROUND THE COUNTRY.

EVEN SOMEONE IN THE CAPITAL.

THERE WERE A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO WERE SITTING IN THE CAPITAL BUILDING CALLING FOR A CEASE- FIRE.

TELL ME WHAT ARE THE ORGANIZATIONS TRYING TO RAISE AWARENESS OF AND ACCOMPLISH >> IT'S A MULTI-FAITH MULTIRACIAL COALITION MADE UP OF PEOPLE OF ALL BACKGROUNDS WE ARE ANTIWAR AND PEACE COALITION.

ISRAELIS AND PALESTINIANS DESERVE PEACE AND WE WANT TO SEE AN END TO THE VIOLENCE.

WE BELIEVE MORE BOMBS AND BLOODSHED WILL LEAD TO MORE BOMBS AND BLOODSHED.

WE ARE CALLING ON PRESIDENT BIDEN AND CONGRESS TO PUSH FOR A CEASE-FIRE AND HOLD OUR ALLY IN ISRAEL ACCOUNTABLE FOR ATROCITIES THAT THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT HAS COMMITTED AGAINST PALESTINIAN CIVILIANS AND ALSO CALL ON HAMAS TO RELEASE THE IS REALLY HOSTAGE.

PRESIDENT BIDEN HAS HAD LEADERSHIP TO RESOLVE SOME OF THE WORST ARMED CONFLICTS AND WORST OCCUPATIONS IN OUR WORLD HISTORY.

HE USED DIPLOMATIC LEVERAGE AND POLITICAL PRESSURE ON OUR ALLIES IN SOUTH AFRICA AND IN ENGLAND AND IRELAND TO BRING THE PARTIES TOGETHER, PUT IT END TO THE VIOLENCE AND ADDRESS THE POLITICAL GRIEVANCES OF THE PARTIES INVOLVED.

THAT IS THE SAME METHOD HE SHOULD BE USING TODAY RATHER THAN ALLYING WITH THE FAR RIGHT REGIME IN ISRAEL THAT HAS HELD BENT ON VENGEANCE AND ETHNIC LENSING OF PALESTINIANS.

>> WHAT IS THE RESPONSE FROM THE WHITE HOUSE?

>> THE RESPONSE HAS BEEN DISAPPOINTING.

WE HAVE A PRESIDENT IN HIS ADDRESS WHO IS GREEN LIGHTING NETANYAHU ATTACKS AGAINST PALESTINIAN CIVILIANS.

THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT IS LED BY A FAR RIGHT COALITION THAT HOLDS PALESTINIANS COLLECTIVELY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ATROCITIES COMMITTED BY HAMAS.

I JUST DON'T SEE A PLAN FROM THIS WHITE HOUSE.

THIS WHITE HOUSE IS ACTING AS IF WE ARE IN A WORLD FROM 10 OR 15 YEARS AGO IN WHICH ARAB-AMERICANS AND MUSLIM AMERICANS AND YOUNG PEOPLE ARE JUST GOING TO SIT BACK AND SUPPORT A PRESIDENT AND PARTY THAT GREEN LIGHTS SOMEONE WHO BELIEVES THAT GAZA SHOULD BE BURNED TO THE GROUND, WHO DOESN'T BELIEVE IN A TWO STATE SOLUTION, WHO DOESN'T BELIEVE THAT PALESTINIANS ARE EQUAL IN THE EYES OF THE GOVERNMENT AS ISRAELIS.

WE ARE SEVERELY DISAPPOINTED FROM THE RESPONSE OF THE WHITE HOUSE AND WE WILL KEEP PUSHING TO GET MEMBERS OF CONGRESS TO CALL ON PRESIDENT BIDEN TO PUSH FOR PEACE AND NOT WAR.

>> THERE WERE SEVERAL PROGRESSIVE AND FOR THE LEFT GROUPS.

WITHIN HOURS OF THE ATTACK ON HAMAS, THEY WERE PUBLICIZING EFFORTS AND MARCHES AND PROTESTS IN SUPPORT OF PALESTINE WITHOUT ANY MENTION OF THE CIVILIAN LOSS AND LIFE IN ISRAEL.

WERE YOU CONCERNED WHEN HE SAW THOSE STATEMENTS?

WERE THEIR EFFORTS TO TRY TO PUSH BACK AND SAY, WE CAN'T BE THIS WAY?

>> SOME OF THESE FRINGE RALLIES AND ACTIVIST GROUPS ABOUT CONDONING HAMAS OR THINKING HAMAS IS LEGITIMATE RESISTANCE ARE ABSOLUTELY HORRENDOUS.

THE THING I WILL SAY IS, THERE IS NOT A SINGLE MEMBER OF CONGRESS OR ANY ELECTED OFFICIAL IN GOVERNMENT WHO STANDS BY ANY OF THOSE THINGS, ANY OF THOSE ACTIVISTS SAID IN THE FIRST COUPLE OF DAYS OF THIS RALLY.

YOU CAN'T FIND A SINGLE MEMBER OF CONGRESS WHO DOESN'T MOURN THE LIVES OF ISRAELI CIVILIANS, BUT YOU CAN FIND HUNDREDS OF MEMBERS OF CONGRESS WHO HAVE SAID NOTHING ABOUT THE LOSS OF PALESTINIAN CASUALTIES AS TELECINE AND CIVILIANS.

THE FAIRNESS AND THE BIAS THAT OUR GOVERNMENT HAS TOWARD TREATING ISRAELI LIVES AS IF THEY ARE MORE VALUABLE AND MORE PRECIOUS THAN TELECINE AND LIVES, TO ME IS UTTERLY DISGRACEFUL AS A DEMOCRAT AND AMERICAN.

WE CONDEMN ALL THE PROGRESSIVE MEMBERS OF CONGRESS WHO HAS SAID ANYTHING SUPPORTIVE OF HAMAS IN THE PAST FEW DAYS.

YOU CAN'T FIND A STATEMENT.

LINDSEY GRAHAM HAS SAID WE SHOULD BURN -- WE ARE IN A RELIGIOUS WAR AND WE SHOULD TEAR THE PLACE APART.

MAX MILLER SAID WE SHOULD TURN GAZA INTO A PARKING LOT.

FAR RIGHT ISRAELI OFFICIALS HAVE SAID THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A PALESTINIAN.

FOREIGN OFFICIALS IN THE GOVERNMENT.

WE HAVE DEHUMANIZING GENOCIDAL RHETORIC.

PEOPLE WITH POWER.

THESE AREN'T 19-YEAR-OLD COLLEGE STUDENTS.

THESE ARE GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS WHO HAVE ACCESS TO FUNDING , BOMBS , TO THE HIGHEST LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT.

THAT'S WHAT I THINK A LOT OF PROGRESSIVES AND ACTIVIST ARE FRUSTRATED.

WERE HELD TO ACCOUNT FOR DUMB THINGS -- HEARTFELT THINGS AT RALLIES BUT NONE OF THESE POLITICIANS WITH ACTUAL POWER ARE BEING HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR THINGS THEY ARE SAYING ABOUT PALESTINIANS.

>> DO THINK WHEN IT COMES TO ACTIVISTS ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES, THE PRESSURE FROM, FOR EXAMPLE MORE PROGRESSIVE GROUPS ON THE SHORTCOMINGS OF THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION ARE GOING TO LEAD MORE MUSLIM AMERICANS TO SIT OUT THE ELECTION CYCLE AND THE ALTERNATIVE IS A PRESIDENT OR FORMER PRESIDENT PERHAPS FUTURE PRESIDENT WHO WANTS TO EXPAND MUSLIM BAN IN?

>> YEAH, IN THE FRIDAY RALLY, WHICH WAS A FRIDAY PRAYER SERVICE ON THE WASHINGTON MALL WE TALKED TO DOZENS OF MUSLIM AND ARAB-AMERICANS, MANY WHO ARE LIFELONG DEMOCRATS AND VOTED DEMOCRAT AND VOTED FOR PRESIDENT BIDEN.

NEARLY ALL OF THEM SAID THEY CANNOT BRING THEMSELVES FROM AN ETHICAL AND MORAL STANDPOINT TO VOTE FOR A PRESIDENT WHO SUPPORTS A FAR RIGHT LEADER IN ISRAEL, WHO DOESN'T BELIEVE PALESTINIANS ARE HUMAN BEINGS, DOESN'T BELIEVE THEY SHOULD BE TREATED AS ISRAELIS AND THAT REALLY SCARES ME.

I DON'T THINK ANY OF THESE VOTERS ARE GOING TO PUT FOR TRUMP AND THEY ARE GOING TO SIT OUT THE ELECTION JUST LIKE MANY PEOPLE SET OUT 2016.

I THINK THEY ARE ALSO GOING TO POTENTIALLY VOTE FOR A THIRD PARTY CANDIDATE.

THERE IS A LOT OF DAYLIGHT BETWEEN PRESIDENT BIDEN AND CORNELL WEST.

IF GEORGIA WINS ONE OR 2%, YOU COULD SAY THAT STATE BELONGS TO TRUMP.

I DON'T SUPPORT THAT.

I DON'T WANT HIM IN THE WHITE HOUSE BUT THAT IS THE FEELING I AM SING COME AS A DEMOCRAT, AS SOMEONE WHO SUPPORTS THE PARTY AND A MEMBER OF THE PARTY THAT IS A TREND I AM SING.

LIFELONG DEMOCRATS ARE SAYING THEY DON'T THINK THE PARTY SEES THEM AS HUMAN BEINGS.

AND SO , I REALLY URGE, I REALLY URGE PRESIDENT BIDEN AND DEMOCRATIC ADVISER AROUND HIM TO TAKE SERIOUSLY THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN WIN MICHIGAN IN A STATEWIDE ELECTION IS BY HOLDING ONTO THE ARAB AND MUSLIM AMERICAN VOTE AND THAT IS ALSO TRUE IN GEORGIA.

PEOPLE ARE NOT SEEING THEMSELVES BEING TREATED WITH HUMANITY.

BECAUSE OF PEOPLE WITH NAMES LIKE THERE IS, FACES LIKE THERE'S AND GAZA ARE BEING BOMBED INDISCRIMINATELY THROUGH BOMBS THAT ARE BEING FUNDED BY THIS PRESIDENT.

>> HE MADE AN ADDRESS TO THE NATION WHERE HE SAYS, THE U.S. REMAINS EMITTED TO THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE'S RIGHT TO DIGNITY AND TO SELF- DETERMINATION AND THAT HE IS HEARTBROKEN BY THE TRAGIC LOSS OF PALESTINIAN LIFE.

HE DID NEGOTIATE THE FIRST SHIPMENTS OF AID TO GET INTO GAZA.

HE ANNOUNCED THAT THE U.S. IS PROVIDING ABOUT $100 MILLION IN HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE.

IS THIS NOT WHAT WE WOULD EXPECT THE PRESIDENT TO DO?

>> I AM SURE THE PEOPLE IN GAZA ARE THANKFUL FOR THE BANDAGES AND HUMANITARIAN AID THEY ARE BEING PROVIDED IN PART BECAUSE A PRESIDENT BIDEN.

I THINK WHAT THEY WANT MOST IS FOR THE BOMBS TO STOP DROPPING ON THEM SO THAT BANDAGES AREN'T NECESSARY.

THIS CONFLICT IS ESCALATING.

PRESIDENT BIDEN HAS NO PLAN TO DE-ESCALATE THE SITUATION.

IRAN HAS THREATENED TO GET INVOLVED.

WE ARE MOVING TOWARD A SITUATION THAT IS GOING TO GET INTO ANOTHER ESCALATED MIDDLE EASTERN CONFLICT THAT AMERICANS DO NOT SUPPORT.

IN RESPONSE TO RUSSIA'S BRITTLE INVASION OF UKRAINE, U.S. WORK TO GET COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLD TO JOIN THE U.S. AND THAT YOU TO SANCTION RUSSIA BUT MANY COUNTRIES IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH REFUSE FEELING THAT THEY U.S. AND EU HAVE SELF INTEREST AND HAS IGNORED AND EXACERBATED SEVERAL ATROCITIES AROUND THE WORLD THAT ARE SIMILAR TO WHAT RUSSIA HAS COMMITTED AGAINST UKRAINE.

THE WEST SAID THEY WERE DEFENDING THE RULES-BASED INTERNATIONAL ORDER BUT MANY COUNTRIES IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH FELT U.S. AND EUROPE FOR PURSUING THEIR OWN SELF- INTEREST.

WHEN THE U.S.

PROVIDES $14 BILLION OF UNCONDITIONAL MILITARY AID TO A FAR RIGHT GOVERNMENT ISRAEL THAT DOES NOT BELIEVE IN A TWO STATE SOLUTION, THEY OPENLY DECLARE THEIR INTENT TO COMMIT WAR CRIMES.

HOW IS THAT A RULES-BASED INTERNATIONAL ORDER?

BASICALLY THE WAY IT FEELS TOO MUCH OF THE GLOBAL SOUTH IS THAT THE U.S.

STANDS FOR PEACE AND HUMAN RIGHTS WHEN IT SUITS OUR INTEREST BUT THEN TURNS A BLIND EYE WHEN OUR ALLY DOES THE EXACT SAME.

I THINK FROM AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE, I DON'T THINK EVERYTHING HE HAS TRIED TO DO TO RESET THE CLOCK WHEN IT COMES TO THE HORRIBLE THINGS TRUMPETED TO RUIN AMERICA'S IMAGE ABROAD, THIS CONFLICT IS GOING TO DO THE EXACT SAME THING THAT ALL THE THINGS THAT TRUMPETED TO MAKE AMERICA'S IMAGE POURABLE IN THE EYES OF THE WORLD, THIS IS VERY SIMILAR TO WHERE IT FEELS LIKE THE U.S.

STANDS WITH PEACE WHAT IT SUITS OUR INTEREST ONLY AND NOT ONE -- WHEN IT INVOLVES ANOTHER SITUATION.

>> WE HAD AN OFFICIAL LAST WEEK RESIGN OVER OUR SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL.

WE HAD 411 MEMBERS OF THE CAPITOL HILL STAFF VOTE JEWISH AND MUSLIM SENT A LETTER BASICALLY DEMANDING IMMEDIATE CEASE-FIRE IN GAZA.

DO YOU THINK, DO YOU HEAR FROM --.

ARE THESE ACTIONS EFFECTIVE?

>> I THINK THEY ARE VERY EFFECTIVE.

IF YOU ARE A GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL, YOU ARE THE MAIN REASON WHY PRESIDENT BIDEN HAS EVEN SAID A WORD TO NETANYAHU TO DEMAND HUMANITARIAN AID.

PEOPLE IN THE WHITE HOUSE, THE STAFFERS, THE ONES SAY ENOUGH IS ENOUGH IS THE MAIN REASON WE ARE MOVING THIS FORWARD.

I WILL SAY, I AM VERY CONCERNED THAT MY DEMOCRATIC PARTY LEADERSHIP HAS ITS HEAD IN THE SAND WHEN IT COMES TO THE 2024 ELECTION.

THE PATH TO THE WHITE HOUSE RUNS THROUGH MICHIGAN AND MICHIGAN RUNS THROUGH DEARBORN AND DETROIT, WHICH ARE THE LARGEST ARAB-AMERICAN AND MUSLIM AMERICAN CITIES IN THE COUNTRY.

ON FRIDAY DEBBIE WHO IS NOT A LEFTIST, WHO IS NOT A MAJOR PROGRESSIVE SAID SHE IS REPRESENTING THAT COMMUNITY FOR YEARS.

SHE SAYS SHE IS CONCERNED ABOUT THE 2024 ELECTION.

THAT'S HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO DEFEAT TRUMP AS A MUSLIM AMERICAN.

THE BLANK CHIP -- CHECK OUR PRESIDENT IS PROVIDING, YOUNG PEOPLE OPPOSE IT MUSLIM AMERICANS OPPOSE A.

WHEN THERE WAS LOW DEMOCRATIC SHOP FOR HILLARY CLINTON, I AM SEEING THAT THERE WILL BE LOW DEMOCRATIC TURNOUT FOR JOE BIDEN IN 2024 IN THE SAME STATE THAT HILLARY LOST PICS FROM IS THERE A GENERATIONAL GAP HERE?

IT SEEMS PRESIDENT BIDEN IS FROM A DIFFERENT ERA OF POLITICS WHERE THE ACTIONS THAT HE IS TAKING, THE APPROACHES THAT HE IS TAKING ARE PROBABLY CONSISTENT WITH THE WAY THE CONGRESS FUNCTIONED, THE WAY THAT GOVERNMENTS FUNCTIONED WITH EACH OTHER FOR THE MAJORITY OF HIS LIFE.

YOU SEE A DIFFERENT GENERATION OF NOT JUST POLITICIANS, BUT THE ELECTORATE WHO HAVE A DIFFERENT SET OF EXPECTATIONS LIKE THE ONES YOU ARE ARTICULATING.

>> I THINK THAT'S A BIG PART OF IT.

IT'S ALSO A PRE-9/11 THING WHEN IT CAME TO RONALD REAGAN.

PEOPLE FORGET THIS BUT RONALD REAGAN, PRESIDENT GEORGE HW BUSH, BILL CLINTON HELD THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT WAY MORE ACCOUNTABLE THAT ANYONE.

THERE HAS BEEN THE SPHERE OF A CULTURE OF ISLAMOPHOBIA THAT HAS PERVADED SINCE 9/11 WHERE WE CANNOT TREAT THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE AND THEIR AUTHORITIES WITH EQUAL FOOTING AS THE ISRAELIS.

ON THE VOTER LEVEL, THERE IS ABSOLUTELY A GENERATIONAL THING AS THIS MILLENNIAL GENERATION WHO OPPOSED THE IRAQ WAR COMES TO POLITICAL AGE, VOTING AGE, THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS FUNDAMENTALLY DIFFERENT THAN IT WAS 15 YEARS AGO AND I THINK RESIDENT BIDEN, HIS CHIEF OF STAFF, ADVISES AROUND HIM ARE THINKING ABOUT THIS DEMOCRATIC PARTY AS IF IT WAS FROM 15 YEARS AGO.

ARAB AND MUSLIM AMERICANS ARE POLITICALLY ENGAGED.

WE DIDN'T HAVE RASHIDA OR ILHAN OMAR.

HAVING THOSE POLITICAL REPRESENTATIVES, HAVING THAT VOICE MAKES MORE PEOPLE MORE COURAGEOUS TO STEP OUT, MORE COURAGEOUS TO PROTEST FOR REMEMBER AFTER 9/11, SO MANY MUSLIM FAMILIES, EVEN THOUGH THEY WERE EXPERIENCING HATE CRIMES OR BIGOTRY WERE AFRAID TO SPEAK OUT, AFRAID TO PROTEST, RALLY BECAUSE OF THE CHILLING CULTURE, BECAUSE OF THE PATRIOT ACT.

NIGHT HAVE A NEW GENERATION, MANY OF WHOM WERE BORN IN THIS COUNTRY WHO ARE INSPIRED BY THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, INSPIRED BY THE BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT AND ARE SAYING NO I AM AN AMERICAN.

I DESERVE MY VOICE TO BE HEARD AND I AM GOING TO PROTEST MY GOVERNMENT AND I'M NOT GOING TO BE AFRAID.

I THINK THAT IS THE REASON YOU ARE SEEING SO MANY PEOPLE, THOUSANDS OF JEWISH PEOPLE, THOUSANDS OF ARABS, THOUSANDS OF YOUNG PEOPLE OPPOSE THIS.

THE VAST MAJORITY OF VOTERS UNDER 45 DO NOT SUPPORT SENDING ISRAEL MORE WEAPONS WITHOUT ANY STRINGS ATTACHED TO ADDRESS THE POLITICAL VIEWS.

IF THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN, YOU CAN SAY GOODBYE TO MICHIGAN.

>> YOU HAD 13 DEMOCRATIC MEMBERS OF CONGRESS INTRODUCED A RESOLUTION TO CALL FOR A CEASE-FIRE WHETHER OR NOT THAT IS ALLOWED TO GET TO A FULL VOTE, HOW DOES THIS RIFT END UP MANIFESTING?

>> I THINK THIS'LL BE A DEEP RIFT GOING FORWARD BUT MAYBE PEOPLE HAVE REACHED OUT SAYING, A YEAR FROM NOW WHO KNOWS WHAT HAPPENS.

PEOPLE WILL REMEMBER THAT THIS PRESIDENT TOOK FIVE DAYS TO CALL THE FAMILY.

WILL REMEMBER THAT THE CAPITAL, THE MEMBERS OF CONGRESS HELD A BIPARTISAN INDIVIDUAL FOR ISRAEL A CIVILIAN MORNING ONLY ISRAELI CIVILIAN DEATHS AND NOT PALESTINIAN DEATHS.

THIS COMES BACK TO THE FUNDAMENTAL POINT, ARE PALESTINIAN LIVES EQUAL TO ISRAELI LIVES IN THE EYES OF OUR GOVERNMENT?

UNTIL THAT PATIENT IS ADDRESSED , YOU WILL CONTINUE TO SEE THIS ON THE ELECTED LEVEL, STAFF LEVEL, AND VOTER LEVEL.

MORRELL, AS YOU HAVE SEEN RESIGNATIONS AND LETTERS ACROSS GOVERNMENT BODIES IN THIS COUNTRY, MORRELL IS INCREDIBLY LOW.

IF YOU WORKING GOVERNMENT RIGHT NOW.

THAT WILL CONTINUE TO DEEPEN UNLESS PEOPLE FEEL LIKE THEY ARE TREATED WITH EQUAL RESPECT, EQUAL HUMANITY AS JEWISH AMERICANS, JEWISH ISRAELIS, WHO ALSO DESERVE DIGNITY, RESPECT AND HUMANITY.

I HAVE SO MANY PEOPLE IN MY LIFE WHO OUR DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST, PROGRESSIVE STRATEGIST GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS WHO FEEL SICK TO THEIR >>> SHOWING UP TO WORK BECAUSE THEY ARE BEING SILENCE, NOT BEING TREATED EQUALLY.

THEY ARE BEING KICKED OUT OF ROOMS.

THEY ARE NOT ALLOWED TO ATTEND MEETINGS.

BECAUSE THEY ARE MUSLIMS OR ARABS THEY CAN'T SEE THIS CORRECTLY AND YOU KNOW, THIS IS WHAT I MEAN.

15 YEARS AGO WE DIDN'T HAVE THIS LEVEL OF MUSLIM AMERICAN OR ARAB AMERICANS IN GOVERNMENT OFFICES AS MUCH AS WE DO KNOW.

I JUST THINK THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS FUNDAMENTALLY SHIFTED.

I DON'T THINK RESIDENT BIDEN IS THINKING ABOUT THE PARTY AS HE SHOULD BE.

SMOKE >> THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US.