The founders of the Uncommitted National Movement — the group that mobilized more than 100,000 people to withhold their votes from President Biden in the Michigan primary over his support for Israel — claimed that Kamala Harris “expressed an openness” to meeting with them to discuss an arms embargo against the Jewish State.
“I had a moment yesterday to briefly engage with VP Kamala Harris and Governor Tim Walz in the photo lineup,” founder Layla Elabed said in a video posted to X on Thursday.
“I said, ‘Michigan voters right now want a way to support you, but we can’t do that without a policy change that saves lives in Gaza right now… Will you meet with us to talk about an arms embargo?”
The Uncommitted National Movement leaders were among those invited to welcome Harris and Walz to Michigan in a photo line on Wednesday.
Elabed then said the Democratic presidential nominee agreed to meet with the group.
“She said yes I will meet with you. And I understand when she agreed to meet with me, she wasn’t agreeing to an arms embargo, she was agreeing to discuss an arms embargo and discuss a policy that will save lives now in Gaza and hopefully get us to a point where we can put our support behind VP Harris,” Elabed explained.
Fellow Uncommitted Movement founder Abbas Alawieh seconded Elabed’s account of Harris’ agreement to meet — and also claimed that Democratic Party leaders showed sympathy with their desire for an arms embargo.
“While we were backstage, ahead of getting to interface with Vice President Harris, we talked to one party leader after another and said to them, ‘Listen, if it was your family that was living under the bombs, we would expect that you would want our candidate to have a policy of stopping the sending of bombs to kill your family members,’” Alawieh said in the video.
He continued, “Party leaders who we spoke to understood this. It was clear that Vice President Harris understood the gravity of the situation, and we found hope in the fact that she expressed an openness to engage.”
The eyebrow-raising revelation came after Harris was accused of passing over Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, who is Jewish, as her pick for vice president because she didn’t want to cross the progressive, anti-Israel left.
The claims that she is now open to discussing an arms embargo quickly sparked outrage among Israel supporters, who say it is just more evidence of her kowtowing to the radical, anti-Israel mob.
Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) interpreted the news as Harris appeasing a pro-Hamas undercurrent in her party.
“Kamala Harris is a Hamas sympathizer. She has made it crystal clear that she will stand with Hamas as the Jewish people are relentlessly attacked by Hamas terrorists,” she told The Post.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) also hit out at the Democratic presidential nominee.
“Kamala Harris won’t speak with press. But she will speak with pro-Hamas radicals and suggest she’s open to a full arms embargo against Israel,” Cotton lamented on X.
“Floating an arms embargo against Israel to pro-Hamas activists is disgraceful,” former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo added to the chorus of fury online.
“Kamala Harris’s radical policies will encourage more terror attacks against our ally.”
Congressman Ritchie Torres (D-NY), however, shot down the claims.
“The Uncommitted movement, delusional as ever, is imagining support where none exists,” Torres told The Post.
“The Vice President’s team has made it clear that she opposes an arms embargo. An arms embargo against Israel — at a time when Israel finds itself under threat from Iran and its proxies on seven fronts –would endanger the world’s only Jewish State in a moment of existential self-defense.”
Harris’ National Security Advisor, Phil Gordon, also insisted that Harris would “always ensure Israel is able to defend itself against Iran and Iran-backed terrorist groups.”
“She does not support an arms embargo on Israel. She will continue to work to protect civilians in Gaza and to uphold international humanitarian law,” Gordon wrote in a statement on X Thursday, without explicitly denying she was open to at least a discussion about an embargo.
On Wednesday, Harris spoke to a crowd of around 15,000 attendees who packed the Detroit airplane hangar — where she was interrupted by anti-Israel protestors.
“Kamala, Kamala, you can’t hide! We won’t vote for genocide,” the demonstrators from an anti-Israel University of Michigan student group yelled.
“You know what, if you want Donald Trump to win, then say that. Otherwise, I’m speaking,” Harris shot back.
