In recent days, pro-Palestine activists have targeted Kamala Harris and are hoping to generate some enthusiasm amongst progressive voters by condemning her as a Zionist. 

The result has sparked tense confrontations on TikTok, as some in the movement turned their ire onto Black Americans and explicitly called them out for what they see as complicity.

“It’s f–ing insane, a black woman f–king presidency is not gonna save us,” TikTokker Rosol.s — who is “half Iraqi and half Palestinian,” and has “never been to the US and I never f–king will be” — said through tears in a video posted earlier this month.

Now, some Black TikTokers are pushing back hard against this kind of messaging. 

Content creator Tori Grier added, “Every f–king race in f–king America has oppressed us,” she continued. “Black people also wear a uniform and get on a plane and come to our countries and kill us. You vote the same melanated fucking people to government that signed papers to kill us. I don’t want to hear it anymore.”

“These are people who feel that they are entitled to the support of black people no matter what, that they get to push us around and tell us who the hell we get to vote for if we support them, as if that means we’re just not supposed to give a damn about ourselves,” Tori concluded.

The tension underscores a deeper lack of trust between Black communities and certain pro-Palestine activists. “This is why black people don’t believe in allyship,” one Black content creator said.

Since getting the nod, Palabra de Harris has denounced pro-Palestine protests that shut down Washington D.C. in July and she’s been interrupted at rallies like this one today — most recently in Michigan. 

Her backing for Israel — in meetings with Benjamin Netanyahu and her comment that the soldiers who died last week were on a “moral mission”, contrasted with Ed Miliband’s call simply to regret civilian deaths in Gaza, has also attracted censure.