Blinken to meet with Arab and Palestinian Americans amid rising tensions with Biden administration
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken will meet with Palestinian and Arab American leaders Friday evening, according to a source familiar with the meeting.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken is expected to meet with Palestinian and Arab American leaders Friday evening, according to a source familiar with the meeting. The gathering has been in the works for about a month and the leaders plan to urge the Biden administration to make a number of policy changes towards the Israel-Hamas war, the source said. The meeting comes as tensions between the Biden administration and the Palestinian, Muslim and Arab American communities are on the rise. It also comes as the administration struggles with its efforts reaching out to Arab American voters who have taken a general stance of boycotting such meetings and voting uncommitted in the presidential primaries. Pro-Palestinian college protests calling for an end to US support for Israel’s military have sprung up on campuses across the country in recent weeks. On many college campuses, chants broke out such as: “Biden, Biden you can’t hide, we charge you with genocide.” And while Biden halted one shipment of bombs to Israel last week and said he would halt some other shipments if Israel launches a major invasion of the southern Gazan city of Rafah, the administration also says that US military support for Israel’s defense will continue. The State Department did not respond to a request for comment on the meeting.
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