‘A radical change’: America’s new generation of pro-Palestinian voices

Progressive coalition could be become counterweight to pro-Israeli traditions of Democratic party

It just so happened that Joe Biden was due to visit Detroit, home to the biggest Arab American community in the country, at the height of the latest upsurge in Israeli-Palestinian violence.

The sight of the presidential motorcade on Tuesday passing through a protest bedecked with Palestinian flags - and of Biden himself in heated discussion with Rashida Tlaib, the first Palestinian woman to be elected to Congress, on the Detroit airport tarmac - vividly illustrated the rapid shifts under way in US politics.