"It might be the driving force behind the movement, but it's much bigger than Palestine," said Lexis Zeidan, another Uncommitted movement leader.
Bryan MetzgerBut while the Arab American community is particularly concentrated in the Detroit area, with implications for 2024 in a closely-watched swing state, there are plenty of Arab American voters scattered in competitive states around the country.
But the key to the movement's ongoing success has been coalition-building with other communities, including African American voters, young voters, and progressive Jewish voters.
Organizers with the Listen to Michigan campaign following election results during a watch party in Dearborn, Michigan on February 27, 2024.
After founding the Arab American Institute in Washington, DC in 1985, he and others worked in the intervening decades to build up Arab American power.
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