{"id":2235943,"date":"2024-05-02T19:15:01","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T23:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-rep-byron-donalds-hit-with-racist-attack-at-anti-israel-encampment-calmly-dismantles-agitator\/"},"modified":"2024-05-02T19:17:53","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T23:17:53","slug":"gop-rep-byron-donalds-hit-with-racist-attack-at-anti-israel-encampment-calmly-dismantles-agitator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-rep-byron-donalds-hit-with-racist-attack-at-anti-israel-encampment-calmly-dismantles-agitator\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Congressman Byron Donalds Faces Racist Assault at Anti-Israel Site, Skillfully Handles Provocateur"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Fgop-rep-byron-donalds-hit-with-racist-attack-at-anti-israel-encampment-calmly-dismantles-agitator%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=2235943&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>The summary highlights how\u2064 the presence of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wow-stop-the-steal-arrivesthe-hour-of-action-video\/\" title=\"WOW! Stop The Steal Arrives\u2026The Hour Of Action[Video]\">black conservatives<\/a> sparks intense backlash from the left, illustrated through Rep. Byron Donalds&#8217; recent encounter at an anti-Israel protest. Despite\u200c facing racist taunts, \u200cDonalds\u200c responded calmly \u2062and tactfully, debunking \u2064stereotypes and\u2062 demonstrating \u200dthe absurdity of\u200d the heckler&#8217;s rhetoric. His\u200d composed reaction effectively\u200d countered the unwarranted hate directed at him.  <\/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<header> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/commentary\/\">  Commentary <\/a>   <span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/aanton\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <span>   By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/aanton\/%20\"><span>Allison Anton<\/span><\/a> <\/span> <span>   May 2, 2024 at 2:16pm <\/span> <\/span>  <\/header>\n<section>\n<p>Few people on earth can inspire more hatred from the left than black conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>From Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, the presence of people with darker skin who do not subscribe to the progressive narrative on race has caused the left to abandon all pretense of \u201csocial justice\u201d in response.<\/p>\n<p>And another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-full-timeline-of-the-fiery-candace-owens-cardi-b-feud\/\" title=\"The Full Timeline Of The Fiery Candace Owens\/Cardi B Feud\u00a0\">black conservative<\/a>, Republican Rep. Byron Donalds of Florida\u2019s 19th Congressional District, found himself this week on the receiving end of that pattern when confronting protesters at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., as reported by the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/05\/01\/us-news\/byron-donalds-shrugs-off-anti-israel-heckler-at-gwu-encampment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As seen in this video shared to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-new-acting-attorney-general-jeff-rosen-recently-wrote-an-essay-on-foreign-influence-in-us-elections-this-tells-us-a-little-about-his-knowledge-of-whats-going-on-today\/\" title=\"The New Acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen Recently Wrote an Essay on Foreign Influence in US Elections \u2013 This Tells Us A Little About His Knowledge of What\u2019s Going On Today\">social media platform<\/a> X by the Daily Caller, Donalds was touring an encampment of anti-Israel protesters on GWU\u2019s campus on Wednesday when one of the protesters decided to crudely express his depressingly predictable judgment of Donalds.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Byron Donalds called \u201crace traitor\u201d and \u201cUncle Tom\u201d by protester at GW<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ByronDonalds?\">@ByronDonalds<\/a> claps back with \u201cThat guy\u2019s really old to be in college.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/02uYn5aDRt\">pic.twitter.com\/02uYn5aDRt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DailyCaller\/status\/1785758833198911856?\">May 1, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While Donalds was fielding questions from reporters, a thickly accented man shouted \u201chow much is AIPAC paying you?\u201d It was a remark Donalds either ignored or never heard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAIPAC\u201d is the acronym for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, an organization dedicated to advocating pro-Israel policies in the U.S \u2014 and, of course, one can be anti-Hamas without being in the pocket of the pro-Israel lobby.<\/p>\n<p>The protester then, apparently wanting his heckling to draw some reaction, yelled again \u201chow much is AIPAC paying you, you race traitor?\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-container\">\n<p>Did Byron Donalds handle this well?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>That finally got Donalds\u2019 attention, as well it might.<\/p>\n<p>Because, one might reasonably ask, what did race have to do with supporting a terrorist organization?<\/p>\n<p>If you have more melanin in your skin and you don\u2019t subscribe to the idea that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/pro-houthi-leftists-silent-radical-group-announces-mass-execution-homosexuals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hamas<\/a> and the Palestinians are all poor innocent victims of the evil Israelis, why would that mean you have betrayed the black race?<\/p>\n<p>Some folks in the crowd could be heard to say, \u201cRace traitor, what?,\u201d sharing the same incredulity, as Donalds turned to face the heckler, while the heckler shouted back \u201cyeah!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The man then yelled. \u201cOutside agitators aren\u2019t allowed, you\u2019re working for a foreign entity you b******.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Donalds, calmly looking at the man, remarked, \u201cThat guy\u2019s really old to be in college,\u201d before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-china-threat-is-real-and-upon-us\/\" title=\"The China Threat is Real and Upon Us\">turning back<\/a> to the reporters as if nothing important had happened.<\/p>\n<p>And really, that was the best possible way <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/byron-donalds-takes-shot-host-view-dares-panel-invite-guest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donalds<\/a> could have handled that.<\/p>\n<p>For one, the protester\u2019s line of attack was truly abhorrent.<\/p>\n<p>Who was he to say that, if Donalds did not conform to a certain line of thinking, he was therefore a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/black-man-defies-hateful-protesters-faces-carries-american-flag-right-chaz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">traitor<\/a> to his entire race? (The fact that the man appeared to be not-at-all black just made it more bizarre.)<\/p>\n<p>That was but another brand of racism that the left has frequently indulged in, from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/black-americans-turning-biden-2024-not-going-vote-period\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Biden\u2019<\/a>s infamous \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-tells-black-host-problem-figuring-whether-trump-aint-black\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">you ain\u2019t black<\/a>\u201d moment during the 2020 presidential campaign to \u201cThe View\u201d co-host Sunny Hostin calling scholar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/even-views-audience-applaud-man-took-neo-racism-front-everyone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Coleman Hughes<\/a> a \u201ccharlatan\u201d to his face in March because he did not fully subscribe to the progressive left\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/john-oliver-attempts-bribe-clarence-thomas-leave-supreme-court-sparking-calls-arrest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">victimhood narrative<\/a> about minorities in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, it was far more racist for the GWU protester to assume that Donalds must oppose Israel because of his skin color is more racist than anything Donalds himself could have said or done.<\/p>\n<p>For another, the man clearly was getting up there in years.<\/p>\n<p>As another conservative politician visiting the encampment, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, told the crowd, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/4637104-boebert-donalds-spar-protestors-george-washington\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Hill<\/a>, \u201cWe know for a fact that there are professional, organized protesters that are not students, who are currently inciting what you are seeing happen at this community right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While there are older folks who return to college later in life, they usually have more interest in pursing actual studies than engaging in political theater. The vast majority of the actual students protesting are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/disgusting-pro-gaza-protesters-unthinkable-george-washington-university\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">young and dumb liberals<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>How ironic for this protester to castigate Donalds for being an \u201coutside agitator,\u201d when he, more than likely, was one himself. (Assuming he wasn\u2019t on the faculty, which would be even worse.)<\/p>\n<p>When faced with such ridiculous attacks, never mind such <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/democratic-lawmakers-liberal-activists-meltdown-meta-announces-decision-trumps-facebook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unearned hate<\/a>, Donalds responded in perhaps the best way possible:\u00a0Not answering directly, remaining perfectly calm, and illustrating the absurdity of their rhetoric in only a few, well-chosen words.<\/p>\n<p>You could hardly think of a more perfect response.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><b><i>An Important Message from Our Staff:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span>We who work here at The Western Journal have fought for years against Big Tech and the elites who want to shut us down and then shut America down. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Make no mistake \u2014 nothing will be the same after November 2024. Will you help us fight? 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Please don\u2019t let the America-hating left win. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=BM6XAWRJ8NS7A&#038;utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>Stand with us today<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>!<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"author-info-45810\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/aanton\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<div>\n<p><label for=\"summary-tab-radio-45810\">Summary<\/label><label for=\"posts-tab-radio-45810\">Recent<span> Posts<\/span><\/label><label for=\"contact-tab-radio-45810\" onclick=\"if( typeof grecaptcha=='undefined' ) { let cap_s=document.createElement( 'script' ); cap_s.src='https:\/\/www.google.com\/recaptcha\/api.js?render=6LeJFcsUAAAAAPsIEqvB1EebWbZfqRUe6ebMpGy7'; document.body.appendChild( cap_s ); }\">Contact<\/label><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Allison Anton dabbles in fiction, as well as commenting on depressing modern trends and media. She calls the metro Atlanta area home, and when she\u2019s not writing, she\u2019s creating a loving home for her amazing husband.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a commentary by Allison Anton on May 2, 2024, at 2:16 pm, the intense aversion toward black conservatives from the left is highlighted. Figures like Justice Clarence Thomas and Sen. 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