Palestinian American writer Ahmed Moor launches 2028 bid for Pennsylvania Senate seat

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Regardless of whether Fetterman chooses to run, Moor, a DSA member from Philadelphia, would need a dramatic shift in voter trends across purplish Pennsylvania to secure the seat.

When Ahmed Moor started his freshman year at the University of Pennsylvania in 2002, he remembers navigating an atmosphere of Islamophobia around the one-year anniversary of September 11. He recounted how, as he was exiting a derelict math building known for what Moor described as its “dungeon-like” interior, he overheard a kippa-clad student commenting on the grossness of the neighborhood, noting that “it's not like Ramallah or anything.” “It was a tough environment,” Moor said, recalling that during a campus protest in 2003 against the Iraq war, he was met with “Go home, terrorist” and other such slogans.

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