The Republican candidate for president of the United States, Donald Trump, He stated this Wednesday that “It was beautiful to see” New York police officers storm a Columbia University building occupied by pro-Palestinian students, calling the protesters “angry lunatics and Hamas sympathizers.”
“New York was under siege last night”Trump told supporters at a campaign rally in Wisconsin. He praised police officers for detaining about 300 protesters.
Trump was referring to the spread of pro-Palestinian protests across the United States in recent days. Republicans have accused some university administrators of turning a blind eye to anti-Semitic rhetoric and harassment.
The October 7 attack on southern Israel by Hamas militants from the Gaza Strip and the subsequent Israeli offensive against the Palestinian enclave have unleashed the largest wave of student activism in the United States since the anti-racism protests in 2020.
Gaza refugees
“Your cities and towns will now accept people from Gaza and various other places,” Trump said, referring to media reports about the president’s administration’s plans. Joe Biden, Democrat, to accept some refugees from Gaza. The crowd booed in response.
CBS News said it had obtained internal government documents showing that US officials have been discussing different options for resettling Palestinians who have been displaced by the fighting in Gaza, after they pass a battery of screening tests.
The White House press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierresaid Wednesday that the administration was studying a plan to resettle some Palestinian refugees who are related to Americans.
Last week, Trump described the pro-Palestinian protests as fueled by a “tremendous hatred”while claiming that the violence at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, when he was president, was small in comparison.
Biden’s advisors indicated that the president supports peaceful protests but not violent rhetoric, hate speech and physical intimidation, placing special emphasis on condemning anti-Semitism on university campuses.
Source: Ambito
