Culture
Posted by Charlie Kirk Staff - 4.23.24

J.D. Vance Blasts Biden For Refusing to Condemn Anti-Jewish Campus Protests

J.D. Vance Blasts Biden For Refusing to Condemn Anti-Jewish Campus Protests

Culture
Posted by Charlie Kirk Staff - 4.23.24

Sen. J.D. Vance had some hard words for President Joe Biden during a Monday segment on Fox News’ “Jesse Watters Primetime” as anti-Jewish and anti-Israel protests at Columbia University in New York City and Yale University became more chaotic.

“This has gone to extreme levels, this campus chaos. At what point is the president going to call the University of Columbia and the University of Yale and say it’s time to knock it off?” Watters asked.

“It should have happened yesterday. This is the convergence of two factors that the left has been openly cultivating for years now,” Vance, an Ohio Republican, said.

“On one hand, you have well-educated limousine self-hating liberals who get very good educations but really getting very good indoctrinations. They are not getting an education in anything,” he continued. “And then on the flip side, you have the importation of millions of people, some of whom aren’t properly vetted and some of whom hate this country. And those two forces are joining in Columbia and in Yale and producing this incredible campus violence.

“Obviously, we condemn anti-Semitism. But I don’t care what you are underlying ideology is. If you are harassing fellow students, if you are preventing people from getting to class, if you are stabbing your fellow students in the eye with flags, you should go to prison,” Vance added. “I don’t know why Joe Biden and the Democrats cannot just utter the simple basic truth that if you violate the law, if you set up a tent city, if you turn our cities or campuses into garbage dumps for your next political protest, you need to be forced to comply with the law. That’s what we did in the ’60s and what we need to do today or it’s going to keep on getting weirder and weirder.”

He noted further: “The Democrats have boxed themselves into a hole here; they need moderate Jewish voters and places all over the country to vote Democratic in big numbers. They also need a lot of Arab voters to vote Democratic in a lot of places all over the country. And those groups of people very often do not see eye to eye on this Israel question, on the Gaza question, and the Democrats have to lay in the bed that they’ve made for themselves.

“The fact that Joe Biden cannot straightforwardly condemn terrorism and attacks on the craziness that’s going on in our campuses is evidence that the guy has two masters. He needs to pick one, and if he doesn’t, the American people need to give them the boot,” Vance said. “Can you imagine, Jesse, if Donald Trump was president right now, can you imagine how swiftly we would respond to this lawlessness and chaos, we just need to get back to common sense.

“I’m not asking for anything. Of course, people have the right to peacefully protest. I’m not asking for anything other than simple law in order and obeying the law. If you can’t ask that of college kids, what can you ask?” he said.

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