As pro-Palestinian protests continue at universities, Republican Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance told Fox News on Monday that Democrats are allowing demonstrators to turn areas such as college campuses into “dumping grounds.” criticized.
Vance appeared on “Jesse Watters Prime Time” to discuss ongoing protests across U.S. college campuses in support of pro-Palestinian movements. Fox host Jesse Watters asked Vance at what point President Joe Biden would “call” on universities such as Columbia and Yale to “shut down” as student protests began last week. Ta. (Related article: Jewish journalism student ‘stabbed’ in the eye with a Palestinian flag pole while covering a protest)
“Well, that should have happened yesterday, of course, Jesse,” Vance said. “This is an amalgamation of two elements that the left has been openly cultivating for years. On the one hand, you have highly educated, limo-like, self-hating liberals; But in fact they are very well taught. And on the other hand, there are millions of people who are imported. Some have been vetted and some hate this country.”
“These two forces have converged at Columbia and Yale to create this incredible amount of campus violence,” he continued. “Obviously we condemn Jesse as anti-Semitic, but we don’t care what your underlying ideology is. If you’re disrupting or stabbing another student in the eye with a flag, you should go to jail.”
“Why would Joe Biden and the Democratic Party break the law by setting up tent cities and turning cities and campuses into garbage dumps for political protests? I don’t know why you can’t just say it. We have to force them to obey the law. That’s what we did in the 60s, and that’s what we have to do today. Otherwise, it’s going to get weirder and weirder,” Vance concluded.
Protests in support of the Palestinian movement began last week, April 17, at Columbia University as the conflict between Israel and Hamas continues. New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers were called to campus the next day on reports of arrests, but protests continued throughout the weekend and demonstrations began on other campuses.
Columbia University students reportedly set up tents on the school’s lawn, while UC Berkeley did the same on Monday, with students sitting outside on the steps of Sproul Hall. according to To Berkeleyside. Tensions between Jewish students and demonstrators are also rising after a Jewish journalism student was reportedly “poked” in the eye with a Palestinian North Pole flag while covering an event on Saturday. .
By Sunday, President Joe Biden had said that “blatant anti-Semitism is reprehensible, it is dangerous, and it will never be tolerated on college campuses or anywhere in our country.” condemned the Jewish protests.
