Palestinians and their allies must build on down-ballot wins, while recognizing the limitations of electoral politics in the face of Israel’s genocidal campaign.

By Samer Badawi, +972 Magazine

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Progressives abandoning the Democrats over their ongoing support for Israel certainly wasn’t the only factor that swung the election for Trump, or even the most pivotal. For one thing, the president-elect’s margin of victory, both in the national popular vote and in states that President Joe Biden had won in 2020, outstripped the number of Democratic voters who had cast “uncommitted” protest ballots in the spring primaries.

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