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Adam Hamawy, a doctor who served in Gaza amid the genocide, won a New Jersey congressional primary on Tuesday, demonstrating the continued impact of the Palestine solidarity movement on U.S. politics.

Egyptian-born Hamawy beat 11 other Democrats and will be the Democratic candidate on the ballot for New Jersey’s 12th Congressional District. The winner of the Democratic primary is expected to easily win a seat in Congress in November.

Hamawy’s campaign focused on ending U.S. aggression in the Middle East and a call to abolish ICE.

“You’ve heard throughout this race that I said over and over again: health care, not bombs; to abolish ICE; and to unrig this economy,” he told supporters on Tuesday night — echoing the calls of the Palestine solidarity movement and immigrant justice advocates. Hamawy also supports ending U.S. military aid to Israel.

“They are solutions to a crisis that was born out of a broken and rigged political and economic system – a system that floods money overseas to bomb children’s schools, while at the same time says that child care here in America is pie in the sky,” he explained.

Israel Has Engineered a Deadly Shortage of Medications and Health Care in Gaza

Hamawy worked as an army combat doctor during the Iraq War in 2004 and 2005. He has also participated in numerous medical missions: to Bosnia, Sudan, Haiti, Lebanon, Syria, and Gaza.

Hamawy participated in medical missions to Gaza in 2024 and 2025, which he credits........

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