President Biden encountered dozens of anti-Israel demonstrators outside a hotel in Dallas, Texas, on Thursday morning, threatening to withhold the vote unless his administration changed its policies on the Gaza Strip.
Amid humanitarian concerns over Israel’s planned ground invasion of Rafah, demonstrators held placards calling for a ceasefire between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas, which controls the three-mile-wide Palestinian territory of the Gaza Strip.
They also held signs that read “In November we will not forget,” alluding to protests threatening not to vote for Biden in 2024.
“If we don’t get justice, we don’t get sleep,” protesters could be heard shouting as they waved Palestinian flags and banged pots.
Mr. Biden, 81, has been exposed to anti-Israel protests for months, sometimes with signs bearing the phrase “Massacre Joe.”
Dozens of people showed up and staged a sit-in on Pennsylvania Avenue in early March in an attempt to prevent the president from arriving at Congress to deliver his State of the Union address, and other groups followed Biden across the country, disrupting his speech and taking him to hotels. They are marching around the lobby. .
Anti-Biden administration sentiment on Gaza is coming primarily from Democrats, and protest groups across the country are also calling on voters to send a message by selecting “non-commit” on their ballots instead of voting for Biden in the primary. There is.
The president struggled with large numbers of “uncommitted” primary voters in states such as Michigan and Minnesota.
The Biden administration has maintained that Israel has the right to defend itself against Hamas after the terrorist group launched a major attack on October 7 that left more than 1,160 people dead.
While the White House maintains its support for Israel, it also questions how Israel could launch an invasion of Rafah, Gaza’s southern border city, without incurring large numbers of civilian casualties.
