Muslims of New Jersey reject the Israeli congressman
The Arab Muslim community of New Jersey, who helped the Democratic representative of the United States to stay in the Congress with their significant support, have now challenged his positions in support of the Zionists. |
Fars News Agency International Group: “I am not able to control Israel’s policies, but they have the right to protect and defend themselves.” entire”. These are the words of New Jersey’s 8th district representative of the US House of Representatives, Bill Pascarle, who became a congressman a decade ago with the support of Muslims.
The Politico website reported that Pascarle has He helped keep his seat a decade ago, now they are mobilizing to oust this Democratic representative because of his support for the Zionist regime and they say: “You are no longer our representative”.
When Bill Pascarle faced a very difficult challenge in the primaries, after the Arab American community marched in support of This New Jersey Democrat politician managed to keep his parliamentary seat with a margin of 20%.
According to the Politico report, now the same constituency that supported him is a threat to this representative. The 14th session of the US House of Representatives has been created because of its positions regarding the Israel-Hamas war.
Last week, American Arabs in front of Pascarel’s regional office in “Patterson” located in “Little Ramallah”, which is the most The Palestinian-American population in the United States has gathered there, staged demonstrations and held a press conference calling for a cease-fire in Gaza. They are used because of supporting the crimes of the Zionists and not supporting the ceasefire in Gaza.
One of the staff members of a school in the city of “Clifton”, Faras Awad, criticized the positions of this representative of New Jersey. “You cannot call yourself a friend of a community and then turn your back on them. There is no chance that he will be supported”.
Despite the fact that many congressmen supported the right of the Zionist regime to defend itself at the beginning of Hamas’s October 7th “Al-Aqsa Storm” operation. But after two months of this war and the death of more than 20,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, the pressure on politicians to try to end this war is increasing.
Katie Porter, one of the Democrats of the state of California, who is trying to secure a seat in the Senate in 2024, has called for a ceasefire in Gaza, but most of the Democrats in Washington adopted a position like Pascarel’s in support of the Zionists.
However, Politico says that some members of his constituency do not consider Pascarle’s public statements to be enough. One of the citizens of Clifton, Ahmed Akdagh, who is also a Muslim of Turkish descent, says: “He was someone who interacted in the community in the past years (but) we don’t feel that he has interacted as we hoped and expected.”
In the previous election, Pascarle defeated Rotherman with 61 percent of the vote, and the Record newspaper reported that year that Pascarle won 90 percent of the vote in 6 counties of Passaic City, including Patterson.
The city of Passaic, New Jersey, has a population of about 600,000, and Paterson is the second largest city in America with the largest population of Muslim Arabs.
Now after The recent war in Gaza, the support for Pascarel is decreasing. According to the charter of the American-Muslim Relations Council of New Jersey, more than 1,000 Palestinians whose relatives were killed in New Jersey were killed in the Zionist attack in Gaza. October’s conflict with the American Arab community helped him get re-elected.
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