Pro-Palestinian Activists Now Worried About Trump

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Pro-Palestinian Activists Now Worried About Trump

January 1, 2025 at 2:05 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 279 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2025/01/01/pro-palestinian-activists-now-worried-about-trump/

"SNIP.............

“Pro-Palestinian groups in the U.S. are staring down a new challenge: Donald Trump and Republicans,” Politico reports.

“The movement has tended to focus its efforts on who controls the White House and Democrats, whom its leaders view as more persuadable to soften support for Israel. But 15 months into the war in the Middle East, as the GOP trifecta prepares to control the White House and Congress, leaders in the movement find themselves with far less leverage — and much more to lose.”

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[walkingman]

1. Voting against you own interests is never a good idea. Will people ever learn?

[Rowdyag]

2. Probably not

[Igel]

5. They wanted to coerce for their vote.

Assumed that Harris would win, they wanted more power.

They gambled. They lost.

A lot of college kids and such ... They really can't step outside themselves to even identify risks, much less evaluate them.

[yardwork]

16. It was a dumb strategy.

A far more effective approach would have been to help Harris get elected. Then she would have owed them. If the pro-Palestinian groups had said "we're going to deliver PA, Mi, and WI to you, and in return we expect..." they would have had a huge strategic advantage.

Instead, they helped Harris lose. Now we're all mad at them and Trump is laughing at them.

[JI7]

6. They didn't vote against their own interests

every single one that voted Trump does not regret it becsuse their interest is being anti lgbt .

[Wiz Imp]

3. Now they're worried?

Maybe they should have worried a little more before casting their vote for Trump. It's not like Trump's positions have changed since before the election. It's hard to believe these people were so stupid, but I think this is just more proof.

[stopdiggin]

4. Ya THINK !? . - - - . -(nt)-

[JohnSJ]

7. They asked for it. How stupid can you be? What did they think would happen under the sociopath.

[Historic NY]

8. FOFO

they wanted to punish Biden now they can eat their faces

[skylucy]

9. F Around And Find Out.

And they are definitely going to find out real soon. I can't believe these people were really that clueless.

[Earl_from_PA]

10. Trump moved our embassy in Israel

to Jerusalem, from Tel Aviv, in May 2018. Which was a far more symbolic show of support for Israel than Biden's stance on the current Gaza war. The pro-Palestinian activists knew what they were getting with Trump.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

11. Yeah, they sure showed the Democrats a thing or two

Now Trump makes them regret their reactionary stupidity.

[DFW]

12. The worries of American Palestinian activists?

They are not my worries. Considering their activities before the election, their priorities, goals and desires (i.e. making things difficult for Harris and the Democrats) are diametrically opposed to my own. I therefore am supremely indifferent to the concerns and worries of American Palestinian activists.

[sarisataka]

13. But, but they taught Democrats a lesson

That was their goal.

Part 2 was Republicans crawling to curry their favor. Hasn't that happened yet?

[mcar]

14. Tots and pears

[newdeal2]

15. I don't think they care

They will still claim moral superiority - see Susan Sarandon.

[LeftInTX]

19. Yep..."We influenced the election" (Whether good or bad)

[Cha]

17. omg.. How fucking SLOW are they.

[sakabatou]

18. How many "I told you so," does that make now?

[Blue_Tires]

20. Fuck 'em...

They demanded an audience with Biden at the White House and then walked out just to grandstand...

Biden bent over backwards to earn two temporary ceasefire agreements, they didn't care...

Biden bent over backwards to send medical aid and food when Gazans were starving to death, they didn't care...

Although nobody wants to believe this, he did do almost everything he could to keep Netanyahu reeled in -- The didn't care and still called him "Genocide Joe"

Netanyahu flies to Florida in the middle of the election and cuts a side deal with Donnie -- A deal that almost certainly went something like "Don't make any more ceasefire deals with Biden and I'll let you annex all of Gaza and southern Lebanon and wipe out all the people living there after I'm coronated..." And not only did the Pro-Pals not care, they didn't stage a single protest after disrupting countless Dem events large and small...

And when I told them these uncomfortable truths on Twitter, their only retort was to call me "complicit in genocide"... I had that tweeted at me no fewer than a thousand times this year. Mind you, these are the same Pro-Pal accounts that actively denied the existence of any "genocide" with the Uighurs in China or during the Syrian civil war...

They played themselves and got in bed with Donnie for the sole purpose of kneecapping Dems out of pure spite in the most consequential election of our lifetimes... So they damn well better get undressed, slide under the covers with King Donnie and make themselves comfortable for awhile...

[eppur_se_muova]

21. Don't know whether to go with "womp womp" or "HA ha"!

Oh, heck, make it both.