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Kamala Harris Knows What Neither White Man Knows, Yet She Supports Zionism!

Rima Najjar
4 min readAug 12, 2020

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A white protester trying to impale a black civil rights attorney with an American flag during a demonstration in Boston over school busing in 1976. “Kamala Harris’ support for freedom, civil rights and equality does not extend to one group of people systematically and violently denied them: Palestinians.”

“So, what do we do? I don’t want 4 more years of Trump and even Bernie didn’t have a flawless record on Palestine…”

The above was a comment on the following interjection I had posted on Facebook directly upon hearing the announcement naming Kamala Harris as Biden’s running mate:

“Yuck! Not that Biden himself is anything to write home about.”

For those of us voting for Biden practically with a nose-peg, as an uninspiring Democratic Party figurehead holding the fort merely to oust Trump, we know perfectly well that after Trump and Biden are out of the way, it is Kamala Harris, the “safe choice,” the loyal soldier, who will be the Party’s choice to run for president.

Steven Salaita expressed exactly how I felt:

Look, I’m not gonna tell you how to vote. That’s not my style. I believe everyone ought to participate in the system, or reject the system, as befits their conscience. But if you expect me to keep quiet about Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’s longtime hostility to the Palestinian people in

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Rima Najjar
Rima Najjar

Written by Rima Najjar

Palestinian and righteously angry

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