Why Arab Americans don’t want to vote for Biden in 2024

Even before the Israel-Gaza war began, Arab and Muslim Americans were losing faith in the Democratic Party — for reasons that had little to do with foreign policy. They had become increasingly skeptical of the party’s leftward turn on cultural and social issues; lessons with LGBTQ+ themes in public schools had become a particular flash point. Those debates now seem small and fleeting.

In times of actual war, mere culture war is a luxury. Over the Thanksgiving break, disillusion about the Biden administration’s embrace of Israel during its bombardment of...