A group of Muslims formed against US President Joe Biden, Swing State Muslims Group vowed never to support in 2024

Muslim community leaders from several major states pledged to withdraw support for US President Joe Biden at a conference in suburban Detroit on Saturday after he refused to call for a ceasefire in Gaza.Democrats in Michigan have warned the White House that Biden’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war could cost him enough support within the Arab American community to influence the outcome of the 2024 presidential election.

Leaders from Michigan, Minnesota, Arizona, Wisconsin, Florida, Georgia, Nevada and Pennsylvania gathered behind a lectern in Dearborn, Michigan, the city with the largest population of Arab Americans in the United States, behind a lectern that read, “Resign Biden, Cease fire now”.

The health ministry in Hamas-ruled Gaza on Saturday updated the death toll in the Israel-Hamas war to 15,200 Palestinians, about two-thirds of whom were women and minors. About 1,200 Israelis have been killed, most of them during Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel, which started the war.

Biden’s reluctance to call for a ceasefire has strained his relations with the American Muslim community, according to Minneapolis-based Jaylani Hussain, who helped organize the conference.

“Families and children are being destroyed with our tax dollars,” Hussain said. “What we are seeing today is tragedy upon tragedy.”

Hussain, who is Muslim, told The Associated Press “The anger in our community is beyond belief. One of the things that makes us even more angry is the fact that most of us actually voted for President Biden. He said, “I also had an incident where a religious leader asked me, ‘How do I get my 2020 ballot so I can destroy it?’

White House spokesman Andrew Bates previously said the Biden administration has emphasized humanitarian barriers in the fight to get humanitarian aid into Gaza, saying it is Israel’s sovereign right to “fight against the poison of anti-Semitism and to defend itself.” “Standing up for rights has always been a core value.” President Biden.”

Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania were key components of the “blue wall” of states where Biden returned to the Democratic column, helping him win the White House in 2020. About 3.45 million Americans identify as Muslim, or 1.1% of the country’s population, and according to the Pew Research Center, the demographic trend is toward Democratic. But leaders said Saturday that community support for Biden has evaporated as more Palestinian men, women and children are killed in Gaza.

Hussain said in the conference “We are not powerless like American Muslims. We are powerful. We not only have money, but we also have real votes. And we will use that vote to save this country. Hussain clarified that the condemnation of Biden by Muslim community leaders does not indicate an endorsement of former President Donald Trump, who is the clear frontrunner in the Republican primary.

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