White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre praised fraternity students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for defending the Star-Spangled Banner from anti-Israel protesters.
Member of Pi Kappa Phi fraternity protected They raised American flags and sang the national anthem as anti-Israel demonstrators tried to take over the campus. After the university’s interim president took down the Palestinian flag raised by the UNC Palestine Justice Student Chapter, which had been rallying on campus for five days, the fraternity protected the newly raised flag.
a GoFundMe pageThe organization, which had raised $516,672 as of Friday, was created to honor and “outrage” the flag-guarding flag-guarding boys. Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy asked if President Joe Biden would donate.
“I will never be disappointed,” Jean-Pierre responded, before reiterating Americans’ right to protest. “It’s not right to forcefully remove the American flag and replace it with another flag. That’s not right. So I wanted to make that clear as well,” Jean-Pierre said.
“So a donation? How about making a phone call to thank the people who saved the flag?” Doocy asked.
“Look, it’s a good thing to protect the Star-Spangled Banner,” the spokesperson replied. “I’ll leave it there, Peter.”
American billionaire and activist investor Bill Ackman donated $10,000 to students who defended the flag against “.”[c]“Ommy losers” and “hordes of unwashed Marxists”. (Related: KJP short-circuited over stupid question about who is funding campus protests)
Police disperse crowd at Polk Place, arrest six people, CBS 17 report. UNC told the media outlet that the three people arrested attended the school.
The university’s interim president, Lee H. Roberts, expressed dismay at the protesters’ violation of “state law and university policy,” citing allegedly anti-Semitic language at the April 30 rally. “I’m on guard,” he said. statement.
“No one has the right to materially disrupt campus operations, threaten or intimidate students, or damage or destroy public property,” Roberts added.
Anti-Israel protests have erupted on college campuses across the United States as students and outside influencers attempt to “occupy” universities because of their ties to Israel. More than 200 demonstrators are said to have turned into a mob. shattered They stormed Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall and barricaded the building.An employee at the Columbia facility claimed protesters had taken him hostage, The Columbia Spectator report.
Hundreds of protesters have been detained since mid-April for refusing to destroy camps and so-called occupations of campuses, and in some cases engaging in violence with law enforcement.
