Author Fatima Bhutto on How Gaza Hypocrisy Impacted Harris Election Loss

Pakistani author and columnist Fatima Bhutto criticizes Kamala Harris’s campaign for relying heavily on celebrity endorsements and vague appeals to “joy” while silencing dissent on Gaza as the Biden administration continues backing Israel .

“You don’t need to be a man to practice toxic masculinity, and you’re white to practice white supremacy,” she says.

I think anyone looking at the American elections for the last year , even longer, could see very clearly that the Democrats were speaking to — I’m not sure who, to a hall of mirrors. They ran an incredibly weak and actually macabre campaign”.

Fatima Bhutto : There’s no question that Trump has been a malign force, not just when it concerns Palestinians , but, frankly, out in the world.

The difference is that Trump does n’t have the gloss and the charisma of an Obama or Biden , but certainly the gloss. Trump says it, and, you know, you take him at his word, whereas we have been gaslit.

Fatima Bhutto : It’s a total racism on the part not just of America , but I’m speaking of the West here.

Palestinians are painted as terrorists, are dehumanized to such an extent, she says.

We’ve also seen a concerted crackdown in universities across the U.S. on college students.