A group of young pro-Palestine activists who heckled US presidential candidate Kamala Harris earlier this week, due to concerns she wouldn’t pursue meaningful policy changes towards Israel if she won the race for the White House, have started a campaign to disrupt her election rallies across the country.

“I would encourage everyone in wherever city they come from, to make sure that where Kamala shows up, she must recognise and address the genocide that she’s complicit in, and that she will not go without this being recognised and disrupted,” Eaman Ali, an activist who took part in the initial disruption, told MEE.

Hakim said it came as no surprise that the vice-president had leaned on the bogey of a second Trump term to deter them from protesting for a change of US policy against the war on Gaza.

"That’s all they said. “Trump is like this. Trump is like that; that’s their whole platform. I wasn’t surprised at all when her only answer [to us] was: “Oh, you want Trump to win”,” Hakim said, ridiculing the notion that any of them wanted Trump to become president.

"If they’re constantly putting forth this rhetoric that, “We are not Trump”, then they need to understand that we don’t expect them to be Trump. “You cannot just say you are not Trump. You have to actually be better, and you have to actually address the issue that we are putting forward. And it’s especially crucial if they’re doing that in Michigan.”

“Until a permanent ceasefire and arms embargo on Israel are achieved, it is a moral obligation for all people of conscience to disrupt the war machine that is fuelling this genocide,” Munir said.