Haisten Willis is a White House reporter for the Washington Examiner. Before moving to D.C., Haisten was an Atlanta-based freelance journalist, writing for the Washington Post, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and U.S. News & World Report, among other outlets.
That was one of many questions at Monday's White House news briefing that pressed the issue of how strongly President Joe Biden condemns antisemitism."I've been very, very clear," press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in response to one query."We are calling out any form of hate. Any form of hate. It is not acceptable. It should not be acceptable here. And we are going to continue to call that out.
Despite Biden's strong pro-Israel stance, protests have sprung up at college campuses across the United States supporting the Palestinian cause, and there have been reports of threats against Jewish students. Jean-Pierre fielded several questions about the developments, ranging from whether college administrators should come down more strongly against the protests to whether she condemns reported threats against a sitting senator."Antisemitism has no place, no place in this country," she said."There is no room for hate. We've been very clear about that."
One reporter asked if anti-Israel protesters were"extremists," a label the Biden administration has not shied away from using to describe Republicans."We hear you talk about extremists all the time," Fox News reporter Peter Doocy asked."But it's usually about MAGA extremists.
"This is a president that has continued to have that fight in this office, in this administration," Jean-Pierre responded."When he repealed Trump's Muslim ban on his first day in office, he also established an interpolicy committee to counter Islamophobia, antisemitism, and related forms of bias and discrimination."
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