Farah Stockman makes it abundantly clear which side she wants Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris to be on, and she’s hardly shy about twisting the facts to get her there.

“I want to be right there with my fellow Democrats, oozing enthusiasm about Tim Walz and what’s the latest with the campaign,” Mr. Alawieh told me. But as he gets campaign updates, he says he is “simultaneously getting updates from my family members in Southern Lebanon who are checking in on each other because of the last bomb that dropped.”

Who is this Alawieh, whose family is in southern Lebanon, where Hezbollah has been firing rockets into Israel, one of which killed ten Druze children playing soccer recently whose deaths went unmentioned by those whose undue passion stops at the Israeli border, has been politically active for a while now.

Ms. Harris has said she does not support an arms embargo, but Mr. Alawieh hasn’t given up. He used to serve as chief of staff for Representative Cori Bush of Missouri — an unapologetic supporter of Palestinian rights — and before that, he was legislative director for Representative Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, the first Palestinian American to serve in Congress, who is also Ms. Elabed’s sister. During those years, he said, he worked with Ms. Harris’s staff in the Senate. “I know that she has relationships with Arab Americans and Muslim Americans and Palestinian Americans,” he told me.

Stockman makes her point in strong terms, that Kamala’s kind words toward Palestinians aren’t good enough.

“We’ve seen a huge shift in language — when she talks about Palestinian right to self-determination,” Ms. Elabed told me. “But Palestinian children can’t eat words. Words are not going to make their limbs grow back.” She wants Ms. Harris to commit to an arms embargo that might actually force Israel to moderate its behavior.

And Stockman makes clear that the enemies of her bitter flavor of morality aren’t people, but evil dark money manipulating elections against the righteous, like Cori Bush and Jamaal Bowman.

But this request comes at a time when the American Israel Public Affairs Committee is targeting some of the most outspoken defenders of Palestinian rights. Ms. Bush, Mr. Alawieh’s old boss, lost her primary race on Tuesday to a challenger who got a boost from an AIPAC-supported super political action committee that spent more than $8 million on the race.

Earlier this year, at the height of the campus protests about Gaza, meeting or at least acknowledging protesters’ demands wasn’t just the right thing to do, it also appeared to be the politically savvy thing for Democrats to do. That notion is looking shakier now, as two members of Congress who supported Gaza protesters, Ms. Bush and Jamaal Bowman of New York, lost primary challenges.

In Stockman’s reality, it isn’t that the vast majority of Americans support Israel, and conversely don’t support terrorists, but that the money (isn’t it always money when Jews are involved?) was used to prevent the Democrats from being on the right side of history.

That demand is a tall order, since pro-Israel groups are also a major force in Democratic politics. Calling for an arms embargo would spark outrage and dramatically change longstanding American policy toward Israel.

Some Democrats, in the name of unity, wish that the Gaza protesters would simply shut up. Nonetheless, protesters continue to heckle the Harris campaign, fueled by the righteous fury that bubbles up after each new report of tortured prisoners, buried babies, and soldiers celebrating the destruction of homes in Gaza. Ms. Harris managed to quickly dismiss them when they interrupted her rally speech in Detroit, but she will not be able to so easily dismiss the shocking reality against which they are protesting. Failing to adequately address protesters’ valid outrage could cause Democrats’ newfound party unity to quickly unravel.

And so, Farrah Stockman calls on Kamala Harris to take her stand and tell the Uncommitted in Michigan and the righteous in America which side she is on. Stockman is absolutely right that Harris needs to stop trying to play both sides. If she’s going to end arms shipments to Israel, say so. If she’s going to abandon Israel to the terrorists, say so. If she’s going to use American clout to force Israel to withdraw from Gaza so Hamas can fire rockets and engage in terrorist attacks in Israel, say so.

Will the Democrats be the party of the victims of Jewish money, Cori Bush and Jamaal Bownman, or will it support its only middle east ally, the only middle east democracy, the target of the October 7th terrorist attack that started this conflagration? It’s time for Kamala Harris to put the question of Gaza to rest and tell America which side she’s on.