Anti-Israel demonstrators continue to demonstrate across college campuses, furious over the White House’s stance on the Gaza war, raising concerns that the conflict could do fatal damage to President Biden’s re-election hopes. The number of journalists, reporters, and even supporters who do so is increasing.
“Well, I think Trump is a really bad person, and abortion rights, tax policy, climate change, and health care for Americans are very important issues, so pro-Palestinian protesters are trying to stop Biden from getting re-elected. “I’m frustrated that they’re putting so much effort into this,” Bloomberg columnist and Vox co-founder Matthew Yglesias wrote for X on Tuesday in response to a list of demands put forward by far-left, anti-Israel student groups. did.
In addition to occupying elite university campuses such as Columbia University and Yale University and taunting Biden and other prominent Democrats, anti-Israel demonstrators have also taken over the campuses of California, which was shut down for several hours due to previous protests. Traffic was shut down, including on the state’s Golden Gate Bridge. week.
Biden this week denounced anti-Semitism while also criticizing people who “don’t understand what’s going on with the Palestinians,” but that doesn’t appease the far left, which is furious about continued financial aid to Israel. There doesn’t seem to be anything.
Some believe that anti-Israel demonstrations could hurt President Biden in November. (Main: (Photo Credit: Fatih Aktas/Anadolu via Getty Images) Center: Photographer: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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Actor and comedian Michael Rapaport, who is staunchly pro-Israel but has been a strong critic of former President Trump, posted a video on social media on Monday showing far-left student protesters trying to cede the election to Trump. he claimed.
“You know what would be great?” Rappaport quipped. “When Dirty Donald Trump gets elected — and I’m not saying I’ll vote for him — but when he actually wins and will win, you’ll hear the screams you scream. . [expletives] What you’re doing on college campuses now, the shouts you’re making against the Jews for “Liberate Palestine,” the shouts you’re making against the Zionists, are compared to the shouts you’re going to make in November. No big deal.Dirty Donald Trump wins [the] I became president because of you. because of you. “
Comedian Michael Rapaport condemned Colombian anti-Israel protesters and called for the eradication of Hamas. (Main: (Photo Credit: LEONARDO MUNOZ/AFP via Getty Images) Center: (Photo Credit: Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images))
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new york times In a recent article about this year’s violent protests against Israel, I drew comparisons to the notoriously chaotic 1968 Democratic National Convention. In the wake of that year’s unpopular Vietnam War and the shocking assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, the Chicago convention was marred by riots and violence.
The Times reported that pro-Palestinian activists are preparing to attend the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago as early as this summer.
“Many voters watching the nightly news at the time were left with the impression that the party had no control over its own delegates, especially if the country was engaged in an unpopular war,” the paper said.
Anti-Israel agitators gather on the campus of Columbia University in New York City on Monday, April 22, 2024. The university announced that all classes will be held virtually today in response to ongoing demonstrations on campus. (Peter Garber)
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“There’s a huge anti-war movement, there’s a lot of hoopla, there’s a convention in Chicago. What’s the problem?” former Obama adviser David Axelrod told the Times. Axelrod is a prominent voice on the left who supports Biden as a presidential candidate, but he warned that Biden has serious weaknesses heading into the general election.
Pastor Mark Thompson joined MSNBC’s Joy Reid on Tuesday with Mariam Alwan, a Columbia University student who was suspended by the university, to discuss the ongoing student demonstrations. Thompson also drew comparisons to anti-war demonstrators at the 1968 Chicago Democratic National Convention.
“Honestly, it seems like we’re going back there. What happened in 1968, the Democratic convention in Chicago, people protesting the Vietnam War. Here we are again protesting the war and getting paid high wages. “He was able to go to the White House to protest something invisible to the consultant class of LBJ.” [President Lyndon B. Johnson] At this point,” Thompson said.
Due to unpopularity and divisions within the Democratic Party, Johnson withdrew from the 1968 nomination race, despite being the incumbent president and eligible for re-election.
“If the White House isn’t careful, they will hand this election over to America’s Bibi, Donald Trump,” Thompson continued, referring to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign event at the Martin Luther King Recreation Center on Thursday, April 18, 2024 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. (Hannah Baier/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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“President Biden is running to protect democracy and believes in the constitutional right of Americans to have their voices heard, but President Donald Trump has promised from day one to be a dictator and has violated the Constitution. “This November, Americans will choose democracy and freedom over chaos and division, just as they did four years ago,” the Biden campaign said. Seth Schuster told FOX News Digital in a statement.
The campaign also cited comments from John Della Volpe, director of public opinion research at the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics, who recently said: told the Washington Post “There is a disconnect in our minds when it comes to what young people see on television on university campuses and what young people feel and think about conflicts, wars and humanitarian crises.”
Volpe noted that a survey of voters under 30 found that issues such as inflation and abortion were ranked higher than the Israeli-Hamas war.
Muslim American voters are further upset about the president after the House passed a $95 billion aid bill on Saturday that includes $60.8 billion in aid to Ukraine, $26 million in aid to Israel and relief for Gaza.
If Biden signs the package as promised, “his ruthless decision could signal a point of no return for what remains of the White House’s relationship with America’s Muslim communities and other Americans who oppose the genocide in Gaza.” “Yes,” the Council on American-Islamic Relations said.Robert McCaw Director of Government Affairs he told NBC News.
Osama Abu Irshaied, executive director of Americans for Justice in Palestine, told the outlet that he would not vote for either Biden or Trump. It’s up to Biden to win back their votes, he said.
President Biden and former President Donald Trump. (Getty Images)
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“I don’t think it’s with us. It’s with Biden,” Abu Irshaied told NBC. “If our votes and the votes of those who support Palestinian human rights matter so much, then Mr. Biden should listen.”
Mr. Biden has begun his campaign for the Democratic nomination in the primaries, but the large number of “uncommitted” voters who voice their opposition to Mr. Biden’s Israel policies in Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin has emerged as a potential fault line. surfaced.
A young voter who reluctantly voted for the president in 2020 recently told the New York Times podcast that he won’t support the president this time around, saying he doesn’t see much of a difference and would rather Trump win. between the two candidates.
“In my opinion, Biden has shown that he’s not necessarily a better president than Trump,” the young voter said. “So the reason I’m saying no to Biden is rather than letting the Trump administration know that if Trump wins, we’ll probably experience an impact very similar to the negative impact we’ve had from the Biden administration. I support what he’s done or what he’s going to do. ”
