"In a democracy you are told when things are not going right, you use the ballot box to send your message," said Michigan state Rep. Abraham Aiyash, who joined the protesters. Aiyash is one of the most well-known local politicians backing the "Listen to Michigan" campaign, which hopes to harness a quirk of the state's ballot to send a message to the White House that Biden should change his policies on the Israel-Hamas war. Organizers are urging voters to choose "uncommitted" a kind of "none of the above" option on their ballots for Tuesday's Democratic primary.
With schools and businesses shut, the streets were unusually quiet in Acre, an Israeli town home to Jewish and Arab communities hoping their fragile yet time-honoured ties survive the latest war.When Israel and Palestinian armed group Hamas last fought in 2021, violence spilled over into towns like Acre, shared by both Jewish and Arab residents, with bouts of rioting resulting in deaths.
Five family members were killed in a mass shooting Wednesday in an Arab town in northern Israel, police and advocates said, the latest victims of a recent surge of gun violence within the country's Arab communities. Another Arab citizen of Israel was killed in a separate shooting earlier Wednesday. Israeli police said that three men and two women were shot and killed at a house in the northern Bedouin town of Basmat Tab’un.