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not doing it yet. It sounds like you really care about this election and you want to sign up to help out. On a college campus in the American Midwest, a new generation of Democrats is on the rise. We need all the help we can get right now. We need every single person that we can. These voters are here to support Senate candidate Abdul Elsed. Congresswoman Alexandria Okaziocortez has traveled far from her New York base to address the crowd. Are you all ready to elect Dr. Abdul El to the United States?
We need every single vote turned out to put this over the top. And once we do it, it has the possibility of changing our politics on a very foundational and fundamental level. Both AOC, as she's known, and Elsa are unconventional politicians who have strayed from the traditional democratic stance of support for Israel. People don't want to talk about the fact that it was the Israeli prime minister who has been trying to get an American president to fight this war for the better part of 40 years who finally found a president dumb enough to do it and here we are fighting this war that we can't get out of. So to argue that somehow this war is not in
part or in large part because of Israel is just not paying attention to the facts. What are the issues that are most important to you this election? I don't think that a different government should be sending this much money to a foreign government when our economy is already terrible. Honestly, it comes down to, of course, the genocide in Gaza because um this is not just a cause that um uh that affects Palestinians. I think it's really showing um what we stand for as a country. They need a two-state resolution. I don't think one place should take over another place and tell them what they should and should not do. That's just my opinion.
The city of Dearbornne just outside Detroit is the heart of Arab America. This is where Arab Americans started gaining population and influence. Nobody knows Dearbornne better than Assama Siblani. the publisher of the ArabAmerican news. They came to work for Ford Motor Company because Ford Doo plant is one of Ford's largest uh factory here in Michigan in the world. Actually, the last presidential election was held one year after the October 7 Hamas attacks and the start of the war in Gaza, by which time 1,200 Israelis and more than 40,000 Palestinians had been killed. The silence and the support that Israel got, Benjamin
Netanyahu got from uh from the Biden administration u made us like take a step back from the Democrats at that time and we decided not to support uh the Biden, you know, second term. Donald Trump came to Dearbornne during that campaign, promising, among other things, that he wouldn't get inshed in another war in the Middle East. I was part of the organizing committee to uh bring him and host him in Dearborn. He received a peace plaque at that event.
He gave a piece where he alluded to the fact that he would be the peacemaker. But Trump gave fullthroatated support to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Thank you very much. He's the first foreign head of state to visit during our administration. And BB, I want to say it's an honor to have you with us. You are the greatest friend Israel has ever had in the White House. And the US attacked Iran, starting a war that is proving extremely difficult to end.
Did you vote for Trump? I did. And do you feel betrayed? Absolutely. I feel betrayed. I feel disappointed in the current trajectory. I think the midterms will um demonstrate that a lot of people feel the same way that I do. Um they really um you know they align to the principles and ideals that were uh vocalized by President Trump uh leading up to the election. This sentiment is driving support for Abdul Elsed along with anger over high fuel prices and the soaring cost of living.
There'll be no political surprises in New York City. This is safe democratic territory. But it's the heart of Jewish America as well. And even here, a new type of candidate is on the rise. Stridident critics of Israel, including the city's mayor, Zoran Menani. Now is the time of monsters. These monsters take many forms today. In Apac, for whom the only thing more frightening than democracy being allowed to run its course is an end to genocide and Netanyahu's wars. Using the term monsters to describe APAC, a pro-Israeli lobby group, was branded dangerous by the mayor's critics.
The tropes that have come out calling uh, let's just say, calling Jews monsters um because of who they support and American Jews. Um, that's textbook anti-semitism. Mike Jacobs is Jewish and a born and bred New Yorker. His town has changed. Definitely a little different. Maybe we counted on this being New York City as we used to call it where it's a little less comfortable than it was. Jews have 2,000 years of history of knowing it when we see it and knowing the difference between legitimate criticism of Israeli policies and the hate speech of destroying this one country that happens to be the only Jewish uh country in the world.
Rabbi Amiel Hirs ministers to a congregation on Manhattan's Upper West Side. In reality, in politics, and in history, every time animosity towards Zionism has increased and spread, especially from high level public officials. As night follows day, anti-Jewish hostility increases as well. The suspect charged in the stabbings that shook the Upper West Side was walked out of the police precinct station house within the past hour. Since the war began, there have been several stabbings in Manhattan of Jewish people. You can see there the woman dressed all in black following the 26-year-old victim.
Jewish New Yorkers feel a danger for the first time. You know, they don't feel necessarily safe walking the streets. They don't feel that their mayor has their backs. In this progressive community, many Jews abhore the Netanyahu cabinet, but they see a new breed of Democrats attacking the nation, not just its government. I support a two-state solution, right? I would love for there be a Palestinian state living in peace next to a Jewish state. Um the issue is that I don't think that's actually I know that's not what a lot of folks on the other side believe. Um, ultimately from the river to the sea means the entirety of Israel gone.
Our congregation is in the heart of the upper west side of Manhattan, which is one of the most liberal communities in the country. And I can't tell you how many people have said to me, uh, they feel politically homeless, even betrayed by candidates in the Democratic Party from this community that has been so supportive of the Democratic Party for close to 100 years. I think Gaza has divided the Democrats and the war in Iran has divided the Republicans. Um, and I think most Americans are just they're tired of war to begin with. You know, they're just upset with the state of things. They don't understand why we're in these
wars.
