A statue of George Washington adorned with Palestinian flags and a keffiyeh, as students from several universities this week set up a protest encampment at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
Joe Biden tried taking a victory lap this week, celebrating a coveted foreign policy win. Yet in the streets near his house, he was being jeered over a different foreign crisis — the one that's threatening his presidency.A statue of George Washington is adorned with Palestinian flags and a keffiyeh, as students from several universities this week set up a protest encampment at George Washington University in Washington.
They scolded the students as being, effectively, allies of Hamas and were greeted with heckles like, "Mike, you suck!" "The fastest way for a ceasefire to occur is for Hamas to surrender, and to release the hostages. If you can't call for that, you are a pathetic embarrassment." Benjamin says he supports the protest, and also wanted to observe it so he could talk later to members of his own community about what he saw, to counter what he called "dystopian" depictions in the news.
He said: "I don't hear a call to erase Jews. I hear a call for the liberation of a people who are not free."Back near the White House, Al-Shihabi said she was inspired by what she saw — by students who have been threatened with suspension or arrest, but are still coming out to demonstrate on behalf of strangers, civilians being bombed on the other end of the Earth.
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