The pro-Palestinian groups that came to be known as the Uncommitted National Movement have been uncharacteristically quiet since U.S. President Donald Trump won re-election — even as the new president threatens to "take over” Gaza.

Now this nascent coalition faces a stark choice. Either fade into obscurity after a peak moment of influence or regroup around a new and riskier goal: fighting to stop Trump from snatching their homeland.

Throughout the election, the movement, born out of Michigan’s large Arab-American population, pressured former President Joe Biden and his vice president, Kamala Harris, for a ceasefire and an end to U.S. arms sales to Israel. They virtually ignored Trump, figuring he wasn’t in office and they had little sway with him or his voters. It’s a lesson in shortsightedness that Uncommitted and other protest movements would do well to absorb.