X suspends campaign account of Palestinian American running for US Senate - Middle East Eye
A Palestinian American who launched his bid for a Senate seat to represent Pennsylvania in the 2028 election has had his campaign account suspended by the social media platform X.
The account, @moorforpa, belongs to Gaza-born, Philadelphia-raised Ahmed Moor, who said this week he wants to topple hardline pro-Israel Senator John Fetterman when he's up for re-election in two years.
Fetterman has not announced whether he plans to run again.
"FRIENDS! It's official! We're a threat," Moor wrote on his personal X account on Wednesday. "They've suspended the campaign account. Help us maintain the momentum by retweeting and please consider donating."
The campaign account had over 33,000 followers within some 72 hours of its launch.
Middle East Eye has reached out to Moor's campaign.
X no longer maintains an active email account for press inquiries.
Much in the same way progressives ran their campaigns around the country and successfully carried their districts in the midterm elections on 3 November, leading to historic breakthroughs, Moor's campaign tagline is "Stop Funding Wars. Start Funding Pennsylvania."
"I’m running to end the war in Iran and to promote the dignity agenda: free healthcare, free childcare, and affordable housing," he wrote on X on Monday, when he announced his run.
"I’m calling for accountability for genocide, for ICE and for corruption. And finally, for the protection of our civil liberties in America."
ICE is Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which has carried out mass arrests, oftentimes violently, of immigrants around the country as it fulfils President Donald Trump's goal of one million deportations every year.
Moor's website specifically says he wants to "unseat John Fetterman and chart a new path for America".
On issues related to Israel, and by extension the war on Iran, Fetterman has sometimes voted alongside Republicans rather than with his own party.
Earlier this month, speaking on ABC News, former New Jersey governor and Republican Chris Christie predicted Fetterman would switch parties before the end of his first term.
In August, as progressives picked up critical wins in the primary stage, Fetterman told television host and podcaster Jon Stewart that he would rather lose support in his own party than turn his back on Israel for any reason.
The 56-year-old has voiced his disdain for the widespread college campus protests in 2024 that called for an end to Israel's genocide in Gaza, supported Trump's war on Iran, and has been entirely immovable on unconditional foreign aid to Israel, which he calls a "special ally".
