Posted on 05/02/2024 6:19:59 AM PDT by Red Badger
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre short-circuited Wednesday when Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy asked who is funding the anti-Israel campus protests.
Hundreds of protesters have been arrested across the U.S. as they have attempted to occupy college campuses and violently clashed with law enforcement forcing them to disperse. A mob of over 200 protesters at Columbia University barricaded Hamilton Hall in the early hours of Tuesday morning and held three janitors hostage, leading to about 100 arrests and potentially several expulsions.
Jean-Pierre did not directly answer whether President Joe Biden’s administration will investigate how these protests are being funded.
“Some of these encampments, they had matching tents we’re being told, that there are professional outside agitators involved. We don’t know if they’re being paid to sow chaos by domestic folks or foreign entities. Does President Biden want his administration to find out who is funding some of these protests?”
“What I can say is—you know, um … I cannot uh … I cannot speak to the organizations that are being reported that are on the ground. That is not something for me to speak to. That is obviously something for local governments—local officials—I keep saying local governments, local officials going to speak to. They’ll have better information on that. What we have said, and I don’t think I’ve iterated that yet from here is that DOJ and FBI is gonna continue to offer support to universities and colleges within respect to federal laws. That is what the DOJ and FBI is doing. As far as local organizations and what is all being reported on the ground, that is something that local law enforcement is certainly looking into.”
Doocy pressed Jean-Pierre on the president accusing former President Donald Trump of being complicit with the 2017 riot in Charlottesville, Virginia through his alleged silence, while he has been silent on the growing antisemitism on college campuses.
“The president has not been silent on this issue when it comes to hate speech, antisemitism—”
“This week he has,” Doocy interjected.
“Wait, wait. He started—launched—the first ever antisemitism strategy to counter antisemitism. Something no other president did. No other president—” the press secretary said.
“A school building at an Ivy League campus got taken over,” Doocy argued.
“And we called that out and we said that is not peacefully protesting. Taking over a building at a university or college is not peacefully protesting and we’ve been very clear, we’ve been very clear, taking more than 100 new actions to deal with antisemitism in this administration, no one has ever done that before. Not any other administration has ever done that before,” she said.
Campus protesters have blocked Jewish students and professors from entering buildings or going to class. Rabbi Elie Buechler, who is associated with Columbia’s Orthodox Union Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus, advised nearly 300 mostly Orthodox Jewish students through a WhatsApp message to leave campus to ensure their safety, according to CNN.
A Pro-Palestine leader at Columbia University held a sign reading, “We have Zionists who have entered the camp” and encircled three Jewish students who had entered the encampment, according to a video which circulated online.
“It was really scary because we had like 75 people quickly gathered around, encircling us, doing exactly what he said to do,” Jewish student Avi Weinberg said, according to The New York Times. “Suddenly we are being called ‘the Zionists’ in their encampment. He put a target on our back.”
Khymani James, the same protest leader, said in a video that Zionists “don’t deserve to live” and said they should be grateful he is “not just going out and murdering” them.
“She’s” an elite “speak[ing] to” us gun-toting, Bible-clinging serfs. And don’t you forget it!
Bill Barr’s father was CIA and taught at Columbia. The same man who hired Jeffrry Epstein to teach Math at a Boy’s School.
Not sure how the WH press gaggles operate, but with 50 > 100 reporters in the room, I marvel (and thank God) he gets called upon daily. I wonder how & why .
home of the Frankfurt School ..
Has there ever been a more incompetent, clueless, embarrassing White House Press Secretary?
If this were a Republican admin, the media would have already ripped her apart, every hour of every day.
But, Democrat, so they won’t touch her.
This is so organized. They must have had training camps and we don’t know who engineered these obviously coordinated protests?
Doocy - get off your butt and find out!
FOX is saying they woke up Biden to READ a “statement” written for him no doubt condemning the police and supporting the Hamas infiltrators and protestors.
This will be his first remarks, apparently his handlers and writers finalized what they wanted him to say.
Antifa is the paramilitary wing of the Democratic Party - the Hamas rioters are a significant part of Biden’s base, and their sponsors are major Democrat donors. The Biden gang are not going to get crosswise with their own base, donors and allies. So, silence.
“we’ve been very clear, taking more than 100 new actions to deal with antisemitism in this administration”
“For the viewers out there, please describe one of those actions”
100 years ago the KKK was the paramilitary wing of the Democratic Party. Now they use anarchists.
And those professionally printed identical signs. How stupid do they think we are?
The silver lining is the Biden Administration is doing more to protect Israel.
Why didn't we do much during the nationwide BLM/Antifa protests in 2020?
Must have gotten a quantity discount from Walmart...
Smart students would have grabbed one of those expensive tents and taken a week off to go camping.
GOD… she’s dumb as a bag of hammers!
“That is obviously something for local governments—local officials...”
What? Like the abortion question?
“...and potentially several expulsions.”
Oh, that’ll learn’em.
Aren’t these the hungry and thirsty little turd rollers who locked themselves up? Alvin Bragg and his chipmunks, Letitia and Fani need to get together and get their asses down there and make these starving little kiddies some pancakes.
The same Jeffrey Epstein who didnt have a COLLEGE EDUCATION!
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