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Biden, Democrats Under Growing Pressure as College Protests Intensify
The Wall Street Journal ^ | April 30, 2024 | Sabrina Siddiqui and Lindsay Wise

Posted on 04/30/2024 4:11:27 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

The wave of pro-Palestinian demonstrations across U.S. colleges has created a growing political headache for President Biden and congressional Democrats, who find themselves splintered between one group pushing to rein in the protests and another defending activists’ rights to keep up the pressure on Israel policy.

Campus tensions over the Israel-Hamas war have also created an opening for Republicans to paint Democrats as the party of chaos and dysfunction, particularly with students and parents facing uncertainty heading into exam and graduation season. The protests have fueled charges that colleges aren’t effectively addressing antisemitism as well as raising concerns about police arrests and disciplinary actions against students and faculty.

The overnight occupation of an academic building at Columbia University further raised the stakes, sparking administration officials to step up their criticism of some activists. Biden, who didn’t answer questions from reporters Tuesday afternoon, has taken a cautious approach in his comments, last week condemning both “antisemitic protests” and “those who don’t understand what’s going on with the Palestinians.”

John Kirby, a spokesman for the National Security Council at the White House, said Tuesday that Biden believes that “forcibly taking over a building on campus is absolutely the wrong approach, that is not an example of peaceful protest.” He said a “small percentage of students shouldn’t be able to disrupt the academic experience, the legitimate study for the rest of the student body.”

In testimony in front of a Senate subcommittee on Tuesday, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona was pressed on what he thought about harassment of students on campus.

“What’s happening on our campuses is abhorrent,” Cardona said.

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1 posted on 04/30/2024 4:11:27 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

what a clown show.


2 posted on 04/30/2024 4:15:40 PM PDT by hillarys cankles
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To: MinorityRepublican

Soooo,when the colleges divest from Israel, that means they will refuse all products created by Israel,right??????? Fat chance of that happening.......


3 posted on 04/30/2024 4:15:56 PM PDT by Hambone 1934 (Dems love playing Nazis.....The republicans love helping them)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Global Intifadas do that..


4 posted on 04/30/2024 4:18:22 PM PDT by combat_boots
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To: MinorityRepublican

Cancel the Poison Ivy League.

They are of no furthur [sic] use.


5 posted on 04/30/2024 4:19:48 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: combat_boots

Intifadas ARE Jihad.


6 posted on 04/30/2024 4:20:25 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: MinorityRepublican

Picture this...gas reaches $4+ a gallon..The Big Guy continues at read speeches in which he says things like “pause” and “applause”...his poll numbers continue to plummet and RFK Jr’s continue to rise...and the Rat Party Convention makes 1968 look like a walk in the park by comparison.


7 posted on 04/30/2024 4:20:43 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Proudly Clinging To My Guns And My Religion)
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To: MinorityRepublican

They won’t say a damn thing this is their voter block they won’t do anything to piss then off they need them


8 posted on 04/30/2024 4:24:23 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: MinorityRepublican

We’ve had violent demonstrations before. We’ve had buildings taken over. We’ve had bomb threats during Final Exams. We’ve had actual bombs blow up in buildings.

The places where it happens have to solve the problem, it’s all theirs’.


9 posted on 04/30/2024 4:24:25 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Are you ready for Black Lives MAGA? It's coming.)
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To: Hambone 1934
At the bottom of all these protests, divestment from Israel really isn't an issue.

These protests are just like the burning cities after St George Floyd's death and occupy Wall St. Their intent is to create havoc ahead of the upcoming election.

Paid protestors are on campuses pushing stupid kids to march and scream and demand...and--soon--to start fires and watch things burn.

Many of protestors don't even know the issues. They just know the lyrics of "From the river to the sea."

As has been said,

"The issue isn't the issue. The issue is Revolution."

10 posted on 04/30/2024 4:24:28 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (A person who seeks the truth with a closed mind will never find it. He will only confirm his bias.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

I could see a convention floor move to draft RFK jr.

Anyone but Biden or Kamala.


11 posted on 04/30/2024 4:25:22 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Either you will rule. Or you will be ruled. There is no other choice.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Problem is, their voter block is fractured. Muslims hate Jews, and the blacks are siding with the Muslims.

And Farrakhan hasn’t even said his two cents yet. He could blow up the convention with a word. Louie may be asking for a big payoff to stay quiet.


12 posted on 04/30/2024 4:28:41 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Either you will rule. Or you will be ruled. There is no other choice.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Notice how the bad economy and open borders has taken a back seat.


13 posted on 04/30/2024 4:29:28 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: hillarys cankles
“ what a clown show.”

At the very least, becoming an impossible juggling act. They made their beds.

14 posted on 04/30/2024 4:30:11 PM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: MinorityRepublican

Don’t wanna piss off the bosses in Jerusalem.


15 posted on 04/30/2024 4:30:39 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: MinorityRepublican

https://mailchi.mp/meforum/using-the-anti-klan-act-to-address-campus-antisemitism-roman-at-mef-observer?e=1d2189a16d


16 posted on 04/30/2024 4:31:29 PM PDT by Candor7 (Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!),<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Calling the boo hoo girl !


17 posted on 04/30/2024 4:32:41 PM PDT by wardamneagle
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To: MinorityRepublican

The Biden silence is deafening. Have they set up the Ghettos yet?


18 posted on 04/30/2024 4:32:58 PM PDT by bray (Science says a human life begins at conception.)
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To: MinorityRepublican; All

THE NY POST IS REPORTING THAT HUNDREDS OF STUDENTS SRORMED PENN STATION DURING RUSH HOUR. Keep it up, Marxists, Trump will win New York.


19 posted on 04/30/2024 4:39:11 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

” The wave of pro-Palestinian demonstrations across U.S. colleges has created a growing political headache for President Biden and congressional Democrats, who find themselves splintered between one group pushing to rein in the protests and another defending activists’ rights to keep up the pressure on Israel policy. “


After the 2020 riots, Antifa was publically calling on people to vote for Biden, and even Corporate Dems like Jay Inslee.

This is all fake, and nothing will happen.

“It will split the Dems, and Jews will vote for Trump” is just a cope.


20 posted on 04/30/2024 4:40:40 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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