Arab and Jewish voters both need Kamala Harris

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- By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

A day barely goes by without a story about how many Arab and Muslim Americans or Jewish Americans plan to cast their votes in this presidential election based on their distress over the war in the Gaza Strip or its spillover onto American college campuses.

If you are in that category, then there is only one candidate to vote for: Kamala Harris.

I totally understand the distress coursing through these two communities. Arab and Muslim Americans with friends and family in Gaza or Lebanon or the West Bank worry every day about loved ones being killed or wounded with US-made weapons that were transferred to Israel. Jewish Americans have had to worry every day about their kids being exposed to left-wing anti-Zionism on US college campuses. That often spills over into antisemitism, which hapless college administrators have often done too little to prevent and too many faculty members mindlessly embrace.