As anti-Israel protesters continue to demonstrate on college campuses and vent anger over the White House’s stance on the war in Gaza, more journalists, reports and even supporters are saying the conflict is President Biden’s Could fatally damage re-election hopes.
“Well, I think Trump is really bad, and abortion rights, tax policy, climate change and health care of the American public are very important issues, so I’m angry that pro-Palestine protesters are protesting against Biden’s re-election. are doing a lot to obstruct,” Bloomberg columnist and Vox co-founder Matthew Yglesias wrote on Tuesday, responding to a list of demands presented by far-left, anti-Israel student groups.
In addition to occupying specific college campuses like Columbia and Yale and shouting out Biden and other prominent Democrats, anti-Israel protesters blocked traffic, This includes California’s Golden Gate Bridge, which was closed for hours last week due to a protest.
Biden this week condemned anti-Semitism, as well as criticized those who “don’t understand what’s happening to Palestinians,” but nothing appears to have convinced those on the far-left. are angry at continued financial aid to Israel.
Some suggest that anti-Israel protests could harm President Biden in November. (Main: (Photo by Fatih Aktas/Anadolu via Getty Images) Center: Photographer: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Actor and comedian Michael Rapaport, who is staunchly pro-Israel but also a fierce critic of former President Trump, posted a video on social media on Monday arguing that far-left student protesters were going to hand over protesters. election for trump,
“Do you know what’s going to be cool?” Rappaport commented sarcastically. “When tainted Donald Trump gets elected — and I’m not saying I’m voting for him — but when he wins, and he’s going to win, you’re going to have (expletive) yelling and screaming on college campuses now. The yelling you’re doing at the Jews, ‘Liberate Palestine’, the yelling you’re doing at the Zionists is nothing compared to the yelling you’re going to be doing in November, when the tainted Donald Trump wins ( D) Presidential post because of you.
Comedian Michael Rapaport criticized anti-Israel protesters in Colombia and called for the dismantling of Hamas. (Main: (Photo by Leonardo Munoz/AFP via Getty Images) Center: (Photo by Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images))
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the new York Times A recent article about this year’s fiery protests against Israel drew comparisons to the famously chaotic 1968 Democratic National Convention. The conference in Chicago was marred by rioting and violence, in response to the unpopular Vietnam War and the shocking assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King that year.
Pro-Palestinian activists are preparing to attend the Democrats’ 2024 convention in Chicago this summer, the Times reported.
“At the time, many voters watching the nightly news got the impression that the party could not control its own representatives, let alone a country that was battling an unpopular war,” the outlet reported.
Anti-Israel protesters 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 the ongoing demonstrations on campus. (Peter Gerber)
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“We have a big anti-war movement, a lot of commotion, a convention in Chicago. What could go wrong?” David Axelrod, a former Obama adviser, told the Times. Axelrod has There is a leading voice on the left that supports Biden for president but warns that he has serious weaknesses in the general election.
The Rev. Mark Thompson, along with Maryam Alwan, the Columbia student who was suspended from the university, joined MSNBC’s Joy Reid on Tuesday to discuss the ongoing student protests. Thompson also drew comparisons to anti-war protesters at the Chicago Democratic National Convention in 1968.
“To be honest, it feels like we’re going back there. What happened at the Democratic convention in Chicago in 1968, people were protesting the Vietnam War. Here we are again protesting a war and well The reason the salaried advisory class doesn’t seem to be able to get to the White House is because he’s looking exactly like LBJ (President Lyndon B. Johnson) right now,” Thompson said.
Due to his unpopularity and the fragmented Democratic Party, Johnson dropped out of the 1968 nomination race despite being the sitting President and eligible for another term.
“If the White House isn’t careful, they’re going to hand this election to America’s BB, Donald Trump,” Thompson said, 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, U.S. (Hannah Beer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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“President Biden is running to defend democracy and believes in the constitutional right of Americans to have their voices heard, while Donald Trump promises to be a dictator on day one, says he will ignore parts of the Constitution, and Threatens protesters with violence at his rallies The Biden campaign’s Seth Schuster told Fox News Digital in a statement: “This November, the American people will choose democracy and freedom instead of chaos and division as they did four years ago.
The campaign also pointed to a comment by John Della Volpe, director of polling at the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics, who recently told the Washington Post That “there’s a disconnect in our minds about what we’re seeing on TV on these college campuses and what young people feel and think about conflict and war and humanitarian crisis.”
Volpe said his survey of voters under the age of 30 found that they rank issues such as inflation and abortion above the Israel-Hamas war.
After the House of Representatives passed a $95 billion aid bill on Saturday, which includes $60.8 billion in aid for Ukraine and $26 million in aid for Israel and relief for Gaza, Muslim American voters want even more from the president. Are angry.
When Biden signs the package as he has promised, “that heartless decision could spell a point of no return for what remains of the White House’s relationship with the American Muslim community and other Americans protesting the genocide in Gaza.” “Council on American-Islamic Relations’ Director of Government Affairs Robert McCaw told NBC News.
Osama Abu Ershad, executive director of Americans for Justice in Palestine Action, told the outlet he is not planning to vote for Biden or Trump. He said it is up to Biden to win back their votes.
President Biden and former President Donald Trump. (Getty Images)
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“We don’t think it’s on us. It’s on Biden,” Abu Ershad told NBC. “If our vote and the votes of people who support Palestinian human rights are so important, Biden should listen.”
Biden headed for the Democratic nomination in the primaries, but potential fault lines emerged with the significant emergence of “uncommitted” voters in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin voicing their opposition to his Israel policies.
A young voter who reluctantly voted for the president in 2020 recently told The New York Times on a podcast that she would not support him this time, and said she would. Rather Trump’s victory, Because he does not see any big difference between the two candidates.
“Biden has shown that, in my opinion, he is not necessarily a better president than Trump,” the young voter said. “And so what I’m saying, you know, is that I want Trump to win and then we’ll probably experience very similar impacts, negative impacts that we got from the Biden administration, rather than his administration. Whatever he has done or is going to do, I approve of it.”
