(New York Post) Pro-Palestine activists have taken on a new target.
Influencers within the movement are arguing online that progressive voters should show solidarity and refuse to vote for Kamala Harris because of supposedly Zionist views. Some have specifically targeted black Americans for being complicit.
But some black voters are pushing back, and it’s all spilled over to TikTok.
“It’s f–ing insane, a black woman f–king presidency is not gonna save us,” TikTokker Rosol.s — who is “half Iraqi and half Palestinian,” and has “never been to the US and I never f–king will be” — said through tears in a video posted earlier this month.
While she was clearly addressing Americans in general, Rosol.s made a point of singling out black people.
“Every f–king race in f–king America has oppressed us,” she continued. “Black people also wear a uniform and get on a plane and come to our countries and kill us. You vote the same melanated fucking people to government that signed papers to kill us. I don’t want to hear it anymore.”
Videos like this have elicited blowback from some black content creators.
“These are people who feel that they are entitled to the support of black people no matter what, that they get to push us around and tell us who the hell we get to vote for if we support them, as if that means we’re just not supposed to give a damn about ourselves,” TikTokker Tori Grier said.
Jortyunofficial also shot back at Rosol.s on Tiktok: “Are you blaming black people for what’s going on?… How dare you blame me for something like that? F–k that rhetoric.”
Other black content creators felt especially betrayed by pro-Palestine activists who were supposedly “allies.”
“This is why black people do not believe in allyship,” another black content creator said in a video, responding to a Twitter user shaming black women for voting for Kamala. “Because as soon as we do something you don’t like, your anti-blackness comes out.”
For some, like user Tabitha Speaks, the rhetoric about Harris was a total dealbreaker with the pro-Palestine movement: “The Palestinians and their disrespectful and denigrating videos towards people like me — I’m done… The money that was coming out of my bank account every month to help Palestinians over in Gaza, yeah that’s going to stop.”
Harris’s nomination sparked the debate in the activist community over whether any candidate who isn’t staunchly pro-Palestine is worthy of a vote.
