The pro-Palestinian groups that came to be known as the Uncommitted National Movement have been uncharacteristically quiet since U.S. President Donald Trump won re-election ¡ª even as the new president threatens to ¡°take over¡± Gaza.
Now this nascent coalition faces a stark choice. Either fade into obscurity after a peak moment of influence or regroup around a new and riskier goal: fighting to stop Trump from snatching their homeland.
Throughout the election, the movement, born out of Michigan¡¯s large Arab-American population, pressured former President Joe Biden and his vice president, Kamala Harris, for a ceasefire and an end to U.S. arms sales to Israel. They virtually ignored Trump, figuring he wasn¡¯t in office and they had little sway with him or his voters. It¡¯s a lesson in shortsightedness that Uncommitted and other protest movements would do well to absorb.
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