This piece cites another by Wajahat Ali which I really recommend and am quoting here. Both are clear-eyed and cite a multitude of sources to make this argument without pretending current US policy towards Israel is anything resembling “good”.
Despite these tragic, deflating, and heartbreaking circumstances, progressive voters must still support the vice-president in the 2024 election. The reality is that only one of two candidates will be the next president and the most powerful person on Earth. It will be either Donald Trump, a twice-impeached vulgarian who incited a violent insurrection, or Harris. Whenever I say this to undecided friends, they accuse me of supporting genocide or believe “both sides” are the same evil.
Donald Trump will be genocidal and a fascist. On Gaza, Trump promised he would let Israel “finish the job”. That means fulfilling his mega-donor Miriam Adelson’s wish of annexing the West Bank and standing pat as Israel moves to occupy northern Gaza on the graveyard of Palestinians. There’s a reason why Israel’s extremist national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, wants Trump to win and says he will be better for Israel. Trump might be better for Israel, but he won’t be better for Jewish people, whom he said he would blame if he loses the 2024 election. This is an addition to his promotion of antisemitic “dual loyalty” tropes and support of the antisemitic “great replacement theory”.
Trump loathes Palestinians even more. He said the Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, who is Jewish, has “become like a Palestinian” and “a proud member of Hamas” for criticizing Israel’s war in Gaza. Trump has also promised to bar Palestinian refugees and implement an “ideological test” for Muslim immigrants if re-elected. At Trump’s Nazi cosplay rally at Madison Square Garden, Rudy Giuliani said Palestinians “are taught to kill us at two years old” and added: “They may have good people, I’m sorry, [but] I don’t take a risk with people that are taught to kill Americans at two.” Afterward, Trump appeared on stage and declared the GOP was “the party of inclusion”. Unless you’re Palestinian, an undocumented person, Haitian, Puerto Rican, a woman or a Jewish liberal.
My only point of disagreement is a tiny one at the very end, which is that I think antisemites like Trump will also turn on Jewish (and the handful of Muslim) conservatives in a heartbeat when they stop viewing them as “useful”. Even minorities with the ‘right’ politics get purged under fascists.
