We speak with Dr. Ahmed Ghanim, a prominent Muslim leader and former Democratic candidate for Congress, after the Kamala Harris campaign apologized for kicking him out of a Detroit election event Monday to which he was invited. Harris’s staunch support for Israel as it continues its brutal war on Gaza has infuriated many Muslim and Arab voters in Michigan, and while Ghanim says it’s a very important issue to him, he was not there to protest. He was also not given a reason for his removal, even after the campaign called him to apologize. “Apology without accountability is not an apology,” he says, adding that the incident has left him questioning whether Democrats still believe in diversity and inclusion or if “Muslims and Arabs don’t have room anymore in this party.”
I’d hoped in the last days of the campaign that Harris would see the sense of pushing back on the genocide, but its clear now that she’s batshit crazy on this issue.
I’d hoped in the last days of the campaign that Harris would see the sense of pushing back on the genocide, but its clear now that she’s batshit crazy on this issue.