Palestinian American writer Ahmed Moor launches 2028 bid for Pennsylvania Senate 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. “You kind of build a muscle around that early on.”More than two decades later, the 42-year-old Palestinian American writer is now Pennsylvania's first candidate to announce a 2028 bid for Democrat John Fetterman's US Senate seat, running on a platform of dignity, equal rights and affordability.Though still two years away, this high-stakes race could change how much support Israel gets from the Democratic Party. Fetterman, who hasn't declared if he will run again, has irked many fellow Democrats by joining Republicans on certain issues, particularly in defending Israel, but has also maintained a powerful voice in a caucus that has held just 47 seats for the past two years.But that influence may soon dissipate, with the Democratic caucus poised to have at…