After nearly two weeks, Joe Biden gave a short address today finally speaking out against the lawless pro-Hamas encampments on college campuses across the nation. Of course he waits until the big campuses have been cleared of hateful and bigoted protesters.
In his remarks he condemned the lawelessness of the protests and spoke out against the antisemitism on campuses against Jewish students. But he lumped in “Islamophobia, or discrimination against Arab Americans or Palestinian Americans.”
We haven’t been really seeing any of that on campuses. The hate has all been one-sided, again Jewish students and Israel.
Here’s more via Free Beacon:
President Joe Biden in a brief address on Thursday condemned the “lawless” protests that have recently sprung up across U.S. college campuses, stressing that “order must prevail” but stopping short of endorsing the deployment of the National Guard.
“Violent protest is not protected—peaceful protest is,” Biden said. “It’s against the law when violence occurs. Destroying property is not a peaceful protest. Vandalism, trespassing, breaking windows, shutting down campuses, forcing the cancellation of classes and graduations—none of this is a peaceful protest.”
While affirming peaceful protests as “in the best tradition of how Americans respond to consequential issues,” the president emphasized the United States is not a “lawless country” but “a civil society [where] order must prevail.”
“Whether it’s anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, or discrimination against Arab Americans or Palestinian Americans, it’s simply wrong,” Biden added. “There’s no place for racism in America. It’s all wrong. It’s un-American.”
As he was leaving the press room after the address, the president told reporters he would not reconsider his position on the Israel-Hamas war and that he does not think the National Guard should intervene to help restore order on college campuses nationwide.
You can watch it below if you like:
This is the first time Biden has held a press briefing about the nation-wide genocidal antisemitic riots on US college campuses.
He spoke for 3 and a half minutes. Here's the full address; pic.twitter.com/sO4FffdmFN
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