{"id":2227478,"date":"2024-04-22T17:37:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T21:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aoc-celebrates-anti-israel-campus-protests-during-event-with-biden\/"},"modified":"2024-04-22T17:39:14","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T21:39:14","slug":"aoc-celebrates-anti-israel-campus-protests-during-event-with-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aoc-celebrates-anti-israel-campus-protests-during-event-with-biden\/","title":{"rendered":"AOC Commends Anti-Israel Protests at Event with Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Faoc-celebrates-anti-israel-campus-protests-during-event-with-biden%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2227478&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democratic\u200b representative from New York, expressed support\u200b for anti-Israel campus protests during an event with \u200dPresident Joe Biden. She emphasized the influence of \u2063<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uganda-halts-vote-campaigning-in-some-areas-opposition-cries-foul\/\" title=\"Uganda halts vote campaigning in some areas, opposition cries foul\">young people<\/a> in \u2063shaping the country and praised their leadership\u2064 in peaceful student-led demonstrations \u2064at various universities. Biden also acknowledged and encouraged\u2064 the audience to heed Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s words.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><figcaption> \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t(Getty Images)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.), appearing alongside President Joe Biden on Monday, praised the anti-Israel campus protests that have sprung up across the United States.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is especially important that we remember the power of young people shaping this country today, of all days, as we once again witness the leadership of those peaceful, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/violent-persecution-of-christians-in-nicaragua-part-of-regional-transformations\/\" title=\"Violent Persecution of Christians in Nicaragua Part of Regional \u2018Transformations\u2019\">student-led protests<\/a> on campuses like Columbia, Yale, Berkeley, and many others,&#8221; the New York Democrat <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1782481717132951931\">said<\/a> at an event in Virginia with Biden commemorating Earth Day.<\/p>\n<p>After Ocasio-Cortez spoke, Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/greg_price11\/status\/1782487570984702038\">urged<\/a> the audience to &#8220;listen to that lady.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Columbia University earlier <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/columbia-moves-all-classes-online-amid-campus-chaos\/\">announced<\/a> all Monday classes would be moved online amid safety concerns due to widespread anti-Israel protests on campus. The protests began Wednesday morning with an <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/columbia-suspends-arrests-anti-israel-student-protesters\/\">encampment<\/a> by hundreds of students on the university\u2019s main lawn. The demonstrations have since turned <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/columbia-university-campus-unravels-in-face-of-anti-semitic-eliminationist-protests\/\">violent<\/a> and featured anti-Semitic slogans, and more than 100 Columbia students have been arrested and suspended.<\/p>\n<p>New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, who has donated millions to Columbia since graduating in 1963, <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/patriots-owner-robert-kraft-says-hell-no-longer-donate-to-columbia-over-virulent-hate-on-campus\/\">said<\/a> on Monday that he would no longer donate to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-cleese-cancels-talk-at-cambridge-university-cites-woke-rules\/\" title=\"John Cleese Cancels Talk At Cambridge University, Cites \u2018Woke Rules\u2019\">university due<\/a> to the &#8220;virulent hate&#8221; on campus against Jewish people.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstrations at Columbia have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/anti-israel-protests-sweep-across-elite-universities-passover\">inspired<\/a> students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tufts University, and Yale University to also set up dozens of tents on university grounds, violating campus rules.\t<\/p>\n<p>At Yale, pro-Palestinian students over the weekend <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/at-yale-anti-israeli-protesters-injure-jewish-student-and-tear-down-american-flag-from-war-memorial\/\">took over<\/a> a World War II memorial before tearing down an American flag and assaulting a Jewish student.<\/p>\n<p>Anti-Israel hecklers at the University of California, Berkeley, <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/anti-israel-agitators-derail-dinner-at-home-of-uc-berkeley-law-school-dean-erwin-chemerinsky\/\">disrupted<\/a> a backyard dinner party hosted by the university\u2019s Jewish law school dean, weeks after hundreds of Berkeley student protesters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sanfrancisco\/news\/uc-berkeley-leaders-denounce-violent-protest-jewish-student-event-evacuated-ran-bar-yoshafat-lecture\/\">broke open<\/a> the doors to a hall hosting a Jewish event and forced police to evacuate the attendees.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) praised anti-Israel campus protests during an event with President Joe Biden. 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