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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Biden held hostage by feral yoots
The left eats the bigotry fruits it pushed these years. While the real victims are always the Hebrews...
Republicans in congress need to use this ASAP.
Possibly. Though, I was in Deep Blue, Ardmore, PA, and a Jewish couple was calling the people on the Campuses terrorists. Let it continue into the fall.
“ Soooo,when the colleges divest from Israel…”
It’s their South Africa model. This is their end-game and it’s being driven by this fascist administration and their fellow travelers. The end, they hope, will be like of South Africa as well. They’ll get rid of the independent Israeli government and turn it over to some form of shared government, with the end game being from “the river to the sea.”
GOP has plenty of Ads.
what a clown show.
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The Left has loosed the Marxist whirlwind and now it’s about to blow them all away to the four winds. Neither the Marxists nor their cohorts, the Jihadis, have limits to their madness. If’s going to be a hot Chicago this summer at the convention.
Agreed. Would that it could work.
The Hamas wing is also known for it's terrorism.
The keep it up, they are going to get an American Penochete.
OTOH...this is anti-Semitic, Screwy Louis MIGHT be interested; or not...even with a payoff.
The South Side blacks are very angry about the shrine to himself that wee barry is building in the park, near the where the Dem Convention is being held. They are also furious about the ILLEGAL ALIEN invasion! The Convention will totally disrupt where they live, adding fuel to the already blazing fire.
I just know the pattern here in Canada, where the pro-Hamas stuff is further along.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/anthony-housefather-staying-with-liberals-1.7165299
Gonna be fun watching the Democrat Convention come August.
The dimrat convention is shaping up to be a burning dumpster floating down a river. These people could screw up a rock fight.
Gas here in the TV is at ~$3.90 a gallon now, so $4.00 isn’t much of a stretch.
Will Biden lose votes because of the disaster the Convention is bound to be?
In some areas, yes, he shall.
It I’ll be a different clown show since Mayor Daley is no longer around.
Dems hide the squad/aoc etc...come election time.
IMO as we get closer to election day, the chances of this stuff ending go up every day.
That may be the case but as posted above-
they’ve hidden the hamas wing in prior elections.
these people have been as invisible as clean glass at recent previous conventions.
IMO if it was just a cope, they’d let these people have a voice on the big stage. We’ll see what happens but I’m skeptical of it continuing through the convention.
The Democrat Party has been a Hate Group since it’s inception, why would they be pressured to do anything??
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