WASHINGTON, May 3 — Joe Biden broke his silence yesterday on the student protests against Israel’s war with Hamas but the US president faces a difficult balancing act to avoid...
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US President Joe Biden broke his silence yesterday on the student protests against Israel’s war with Hamas but the US president faces a difficult balancing act to avoid hurting his re-election chances against Donald Trump. — AFP picWASHINGTON, May 3 — Joe Biden broke his silence yesterday on the student protests against Israel’s war with Hamas but the US president faces a difficult balancing act to avoid hurting his reelection chances against Donald Trump.
“Vandalism, trespassing, breaking windows, shutting down campuses, forcing the cancellation of classes and graduations — none of this is a peaceful protest,” he said.The president also doubled down on his support for Israel’s offensive in Gaza since the October 7 attacks, which has helped fuel the campus anger and enraged many Muslim and younger voters.
Biden’s reluctance to weigh in on the biggest and most prolonged unrest to rock US campuses since the Vietnam war protests of the 1960s and 70s has not gone unnoticed by Trump and the Republicans. Trump urged college presidents to “remove the encampments immediately, vanquish the radicals and take back our campuses.” As for the demonstrators at New York’s prestigious Columbia University, he called them “raging lunatics and Hamas sympathisers”.Biden tried to counter that by insisting there was “no place in America for anti-Semitism or threats of violence against Jewish students”.The White House on Thursday denied that Biden had been pushed into reacting by Trump.
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