Biden’s selective campus outrage
Conn Carroll
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There was a time, not that long ago, when President Joe Biden was very much concerned with what was happening on America’s college campuses.
In fact, according to Biden himself, it was a single event on a single college campus that inspired him to run at all.
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In August 2017, after dozens of white nationalists marched through the University of Virginia campus carrying Tiki torches and chanting, “Jews will not replace us,” Biden decided that one event was outrageous enough to justify his candidacy.
“Charlottesville, Virginia, is home to the author of one of the great documents of human history,” Biden said in his 2019 campaign announcement video. “Charlottesville is also home to a defining moment for this nation in the last few years.”
“It was there in August of 2017 that we saw Klansmen and white supremacists come out in the open, their crazed faces illuminated by torches … chanting the same antisemitic bile heard across Europe in the ’30s.”
“And in that moment, I knew the threat to this nation was unlike any I had ever seen in my lifetime,” Biden continued. “We are in the battle for the soul of this nation.”
A couple dozen crazy people who don’t even go to UVA march through campus saying vile things, and it is a “battle for the soul of this nation.”
Fast forward four years, and there are again dozens of protesters marching not just through one campus, but campuses across the country. And they are chanting “antisemitic bile” every bit as threatening and racist as what was said in Charlottesville.
“From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” is the chant heard by anti-Israel protesters on college campuses across the country.
And the call to eliminate all Jewish people in Israel is accompanying actual violence against Jewish students on campus, too.
So, what does the Biden administration have to say about this new wave of antisemitism sweeping the country under his watch?
“So, look, I’m not going to get into what’s happening across the country in — at different universities. I’m not going to get into the specifics,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said when asked if Biden had anything to say about “anti-Israel protests and sentiment on college campuses.”
What a cowardly dereliction of duty.
Biden clearly believes what is said on college campuses matters immensely to this nation. After one rally on one campus, he declared we were going through a “battle for the soul of this nation.”
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But now that there are marches on dozens of campuses nationwide, and Jewish students are actually being attacked, suddenly, Biden is silent.
Shameful.