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Stephen Maturen/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) Muslim and Arab American leaders in Michigan canceled a meeting with President Joe Biden s campaign team amid increasing opposition to his administration s response to the Israel-Hamas war, multiple people tell ABC News.
"We re dumbfounded," the National Executive Director of The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, Abed Ayoub, told ABC News. "Why does this administration still believe that we re just going to be willing to meet with them with no movement on their part on our demands? And they ve been the same demands since October, and nothing s changed."
Deputy Wayne County Executive Assad Turfe, who had organized the planned meeting between the campaign and the community, was the one who canceled it, a person familiar with the decision tells ABC News.
Since the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7, the Biden administration has faced calls for the U.S. to support a permanent cease-fire as emphatic protests over its
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Stephen Maturen/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) Muslim and Arab American leaders in Michigan canceled a meeting with President Joe Biden s campaign team amid increasing opposition to his administration s response to the Israel-Hamas war, multiple people tell ABC News.
"We re dumbfounded," the National Executive Director of The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, Abed Ayoub, told ABC News. "Why does this administration still believe that we re just going to be willing to meet with them with no movement on their part on our demands? And they ve been the same demands since October, and nothing s changed."
Deputy Wayne County Executive Assad Turfe, who had organized the planned meeting between the campaign and the community, was the one who canceled it, a person familiar with the decision tells ABC News.
Since the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7, the Biden administration has faced calls for the U.S. to support a permanent cease-fire as emphatic protests over its