Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) said Sunday that former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said last week that most of the students participating in pro-Palestinian campus protests across the country are ignorant and ill-informed. criticized the chief.
clinton said this on Thursday The students who occupied hundreds of university campuses in protest of the Israel-Hamas war said: “We know nothing about the history of the Middle East and, frankly, very little about the history of many parts of the world. The country of
Van Hollen appeared on CBS’s “Face the Nation” with Margaret Brennan on Sunday and dismissed Clinton’s comments.
“Margaret, on that point, I thought Secretary Clinton’s comments completely ignored the concerns of students about the terrible humanitarian crisis and high civilian death toll in Gaza,” he said.
The Maryland Democrat is one of the most vocal skeptics of the Biden administration’s response to the Israel-Hamas war in the Senate. He urged the president to delay military aid shipments to Israel, citing the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip, and the State Department’s failure to say conclusively whether Israeli forces are committing war crimes in the war. I pushed back the report.
“I believe that the vast majority of students are protesting and are closely monitoring what is happening in Gaza,” he said, directly contradicting Clinton’s comments. “They recognize that the civilian death toll is very high.”
“We can certainly look back at history and past negotiations, but the overwhelming majority of students – not all of them, and some with very bad elements involved, are anti-protesters. On the activist side – I believe that the students understand what is happening in Gaza in terms of civilian casualties, he added.
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