My work is back in Deceleration. This time, I got to interview two Pro-Palestine activists who disrupted the Kamala Harris rally in Houston:
Outside of Houston’s Shell Energy Stadium on October 25, 2025, a group of area residents gathered outside a campaign rally of presidential candidate and Vice President Kamala Harris to drive awareness of the U.S. administration’s material support for genocide in Gaza and demand that the U.S. stop supplying weapons to Israel.
The effort was organized by a coalition of groups that included Palestinian Youth Movement, Houston for Palestinian Liberation, and Al Awda, a group that supports the right of Palestinian peoples to return to their original lands in what is now the state of Israel. The rally’s message:
“If you want to beat Donald Trump, get Kamala Harris to stop killing Arab people!”
While the group chanted outside, about 10 protesters, not formally associated with any group, went inside to disrupt the Harris rally. There they faced hostility and were later accused by a writer for India Today of backing Donald Trump. Two of the protestors contacted Deceleration to share their experiences. We agreed not to share their identities in order to protect them from the extreme backlash that some pro-Palestinian activists have faced for their efforts.
The 29-year-old man who said he lived in the Houston area said he joined the protest because he believes the Biden administration is responsible for the atrocities committed using the funds and weaponry the United States has provided to Israel. United Nations experts have agreed that Israel’s actions in Palestine since the October 7, 2023, which have killed over 16,000 children and destroyed the region’s crucial infrastructure, meet the definition of genocide.
“If I pay somebody to kill somebody else, then that makes me just as guilty as the person who pulled the trigger,” he told Deceleration. “So by that logic, Kamala Harris and Joe Biden are fully committing genocide, and they don’t deserve peace.”
