Given the US administration’s seeming disregard for Palestinian lives, it is not surprising that Americans with ties to the region and its people are not only voicing their dissent and protesting but are now widely proclaiming that they will not vote to re-elect President Biden in 2024, Youssef Chouhoud writes for TRT World.

As weeks have progressed and the death toll has relentlessly risen —coupled with real-time visual documentation of the horrors befalling the people of Gaza —calls for abstention and third-party voting for independent candidates in the US are becoming more widespread.

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