{"id":833110,"date":"2021-09-30T21:44:15","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T01:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=833110"},"modified":"2021-09-30T21:44:17","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T01:44:17","slug":"white-house-does-damage-control-after-kamala-harris-encouraged-student-who-accused-israel-of-ethnic-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-does-damage-control-after-kamala-harris-encouraged-student-who-accused-israel-of-ethnic-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Does Damage Control After Kamala Harris Encouraged Student Who Accused Israel Of \u2018Ethnic Genocide\u2019"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fwhite-house-does-damage-control-after-kamala-harris-encouraged-student-who-accused-israel-of-ethnic-genocide%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=833110&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Kamala-Harris-4.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019 office is rushing to repair ties with pro-Israel Democrats in Washington after she encouraged a student who accused Israel of committing \u201cethnic genocide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harris\u2019 senior staffers began putting in calls to influential groups and lawmakers to soothe any rifts the vice president may have caused at an event Wednesday at George Mason University, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/09\/30\/harris-office-does-damage-control-over-students-israel-comment-514837\">Politico<\/a>. Harris exhorted one student, telling her that her voice \u201cmust be heard\u201d after that student had falsely accused Israel of massacring Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>The vice president\u2019s staff contacted the Democratic Majority for Israel and its president, Mark Mellman, to reaffirm her support for Israel. \u201cWe were pleased Vice President Harris\u2019s senior staff reached out to us today to confirm what we already knew: Her \u2018commitment to Israel\u2019s security is unwavering,\u2019\u201d Mellman said. Politico reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"15\">\n<p><em>A senior adviser to Harris also reached out to Rep. Ted Deutch (D-Fl.) the co-chair of the Bipartisan Anti<\/em><em>\u2010Semitism Taskforce, a source familiar with the outreach told POLITICO.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Deutch and his office did not respond to a request for comment. But the source said it was \u201cfair to say that the group of House Democrats that super care about this noticed it and talked about it.\u201d Harris\u2019 office also called Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, Thursday afternoon, the source said.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Harris spoke at George Mason to a classroom of students. After the prepared remarks, she held a question-and-answer session during which one student blasted Israel and pushed the vice president to redirect funding spent on Israel toward expanding federal health care and welfare. As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/college-student-accuses-israel-of-ethnic-genocide-kamala-harris-your-truth-cannot-be-suppressed\">The Daily Wire<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"28\">\n<p><em>\u201cYou brought up how the power of the people and demonstrations and organizing is very valuable in America,\u201d the student began. \u201cBut I see that over the summer there have been protests and demonstrations in astronomical numbers standing with Palestine. But then just a few days ago, there were funds allocated to continue backing Israel, which hurts my heart because it\u2019s ethnic genocide and displacement of people, the same that happened in America, and I\u2019m sure you\u2019re aware of this.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The student, who identified herself as part-Yemeni, part-Iranian, suggested that the U.S. should expand publicly-funded health care and the welfare state rather than funding Israel\u2019s defense.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAmericans are struggling because of lack of public health care, affordable housing, and all this money goes to funding Israel and backing Saudi Arabia and whatnot and I think that the people have spoken very often in what they do need, and I feel like there is a lack of listening,\u201d she continued. \u201cAnd I just feel like I need to bring this up with you because it affects my life and people I really care about.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Instead of correcting the student, Harris encouraged the student to speak out more, saying she was \u201cglad\u201d that the student spoke up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is about the fact that your voice, your perspective, your experience, your truth cannot be suppressed, and it must be heard,\u201d Harris said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA democracy is its strongest when everyone participates. It is its weakest when anyone is left out,\u201d she continued. \u201cThat\u2019s not only about being physically present, but that your voice is present.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur goal should be unity, but not uniformity,\u201d the vice president said. \u201cUnity should never be at the expense of telling any one person, \u2018For the sake of unity, oh you be quiet about that thing. You suppress that thing. Let\u2019s not deal with that thing.\u2019 That\u2019s not unity. True unity is everyone in that room has a voice. And then we see where that ends up in terms of a healthy debate on the issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019 office is rushing to repair ties with pro-Israel Democrats in Washington after she encouraged a student who accused Israel of committing \u201cethnic genocide.\u201dHarris\u2019 senior staffers began &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-833110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=833110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}