Biden Spox Likens Today’s Anti-Israel Protesters to Racists at Charlottesville

The White House press secretary tries to blame a Republican for the leftists turning on Jews on American campuses.

AP/Steve Helber, file
Demonstrators and counter demonstrators on August 12, 2017, at Charlottesville, Virginia. AP/Steve Helber, file

For a glimpse of the way President Biden lately is shrinking from a direct confrontation with the current wave of campus antisemitism, feature the White House news briefing yesterday. The moment was set up, as it often is at such briefings, by Peter Doocy in respect of Fox News. “Does President Biden,” he asked, addressing the press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, with an apt question, “think the anti-Israel protesters in this country are extremists?” 

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