Kamala Harris was interrupted by hecklers while she spoke at a campaign rally at a hangar at Detroit Metro Airport on August 7. People attending the rally began to chant, “Kamala, Kamala, you can’t hide, we won’t vote for genocide!” According to London’s The Guardian, Harris gave a nasty, arrogant, cold, “steely” stare and implied that anything less than total, unquestioning loyalty to the Harris ticket—evidently including support for genocide in Gaza—was aiding the election of Trump. The hecklers were escorted out of the event. Those on the stage at the time included Tim Walz, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain, candidate for U.S. Senate Elissa Slotkin, and many more.
Before the campaign rally, Harris and Walz both met briefly with other critics, the two founders of the “Uncommitted Movement,” Layla Elabed and Abbas Alawieh, who promoted their campaign for an arms embargo against Israel. Elabed and Alawieh mobilized 1 million phone calls for the February 27 Michigan Democratic primary, garnering 101,000 votes for “uncommitted” Michigan delegates as a protest against President Biden’s toleration for Israeli genocide in Gaza. In the March 5 Minnesota primary, 19% of the voters selected “uncommitted,” which Governor Walz felt obligated to acknowledge. Alawieh was elected as one of the 30 “ceasefire” delegates to the August 19 Democratic National Convention, who are fighting to address the convention.
