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The article itself, several paragraphs down, admits you can't attribute trump's win to Palestine activists:
"It’s hard to determine just how much of an impact efforts like Uncommitted or Abandon Harris had in the election results. After all, exit polls showed that voters were motivated more by the economy than by foreign policy. But in battleground states with large Arab-American populations, like Michigan, data suggests that the Israel-Hamas conflict turned people away from Harris. In Dearborn, the country’s largest Arab-majority city, election data showed that Trump won 42 percent of the vote while Harris received 36 percent—significantly less than the 69 percent that Biden earned in 2020.
But the activists note that it wasn’t just Dearborn and other Muslim-American enclaves that moved toward Republicans in 2024—nearly every district in the country moved to the right as well."
You can't attribute it to any one thing. They absolutely contributed. If Democrats lost by double digit percentage. I'd say they didn't contribute that much. Trump won by just a few percentage overall. The activists were clutch in fascisms victory.
On the surface, I get it. Biden and Harris were "optically in charge". Just not really in charge when it comes to Israel. Congress is. It's capture by Israel is pervasive and systemic. Changing out the president was never going to make it better.
Worse yet, Republicans have a super power. They get to be lawless while Democrats must be perfect. And in that way Republicans hypocritically weaponized and stirred the pot along with foreign actors. For something they were just as guilty of. This systemic problem was placed solely on the shoulders of the president. And not just by the activists. But by the wealthy owners of mass media looking for another tax cut to horde more wealth. Donald trump telling Bibi to ramp up the genocide went so minimally covered that many Palestinian citizens voted for him. Thinking he was better. The activists were played and manipulated masterfully. And all it took was Consolidated ownership of the media. Propaganda Works folks.
It’s extremely dishonest to frame not enabling genocide as not being perfect. No one excepted perfection, but a fraction of ethics and morals.
It's extremely dishonest to have framed it as a choice in the election. Yet, here we are with fascism. I would have loved for ending genocide to have been on the ballot. It wasn't. Never was. But making it worse was. And we got it.