The Abandon Harris movement that sprouted late last year out of the widespread outrage over the Biden-Harris administration’s support for the ongoing Israeli war on Gaza has officially endorsed the Green Party’s Jill Stein for US president.

The endorsement is the first of its kind for Stein and the Green Party, with the Abandon Harris campaign being the first major Muslim-led political group to endorse her campaign this election cycle. Last month, a smaller group, the Muslim American Public Affairs Council NC, also endorsed Stein.

“We are not choosing between a greater evil and a lesser evil. We are confronting two destructive forces: one currently overseeing a genocide and another equally committed to continuing it. Both are determined to see it through,” the Abandon Harris campaign said in a statement released on Monday.

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    If Trump were doing it you might getout of your chair and materially oppose it rather than making excuses for an imagined lesser evil genocide.

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      So you want Trump in office because of that? You don’t care about anything else, I take it?

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        I think you should be against genocide and act accordingly rather than buying into the political illogic of your masters. A good start might be letting go of crutches like accusing everyone that calls out tacit support for Democratic genocide a Trump supporter.

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            You should be against genocide and act accordingly.

            PS Krasinski is a scab and a big fan of the CIA.

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              I am against genocide, and I am acting accordingly. I am voting for the candidate that will cause less genocide, not more.

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                You’re announcing your vote for the people doing genocide. You don’t get to call yourself anti-genocide. You are for hypothetical-lesser-evil genocide. You do actual advocacy for people doing genocide.

                You’d think that literal genocide might make Democratic voters question their electoral illogic around lesser evil cheerleading. You have the option of, for example, saying nothing.

                In 1930s Germany you’d be a Nazi supporter saying, “well at least I’m not a monarchist antisemite”. Everyone imagines themselves as people who would leave or fight. Now you can see, in part, where the reactionaries and their sympathizers found footing, because you’d have been among them.