The putzing president is running out of time to get a handle on the bloodthirsty activists in his coalition.
Five days after the protests began and antisemitic actions and utterances became commonplace at one of the country’s elite institutions, the president of the United States managed to take a break from his busy schedule and decry the vitriol experienced by Jewish students at Columbia.
“While every American has the right to peaceful protest, calls for violence and physical intimidation targeting Jewish students and the Jewish community are blatantly antisemitic, unconscionable, and dangerous — they have absolutely no place on any college campus, or anywhere in the United States of America,” read the statement from a White House spokesman.
“And echoing the rhetoric of terrorist organizations, especially in the wake of the worst massacre committed against the Jewish people since the Holocaust, is despicable. We condemn these statements in the strongest terms.”
Meanwhile, New York City’s mayor, Eric Adams, said he was “horrified and disgusted with the antisemitism being spewed at and around the Columbia University Campus.” He said the NYPD would arrest anyone found to be breaking the law in that regard.
A few weeks back, it took mere hours for Biden to condemn the Arizona supreme court ruling protecting the lives of the preborn, less than 24 hours for him to excoriate Israel for the death of World Central Kitchen aid workers, and within the same work day to bemoan the Supreme Court’s affirmative-action decision. The president and his staff have exhibited the ability to rapidly and with some legibility make clear their views on everything from foreign affairs to their support for positive discrimination . . . so it’s odd, to say the least, that the words just couldn’t take form when Jewish students were threatened in the country’s largest megalopolis.
The Left had better get a handle on its adolescent activists before election season. They shouldn’t want Hamas sympathizers to be the story in Milwaukee and Chicago for the parties’ conventions. Compared to the otherworldliness of 2020, there will be far less sympathy for organized demonstrations this time around.
Democrats have for decades celebrated and subsidized with taxpayer dollars, first as loans and then as bailouts, the increasing progressivism on campuses while rewarding their ideological darlings with visiting chairs and admin positions while hiring on the progeny of these schools to run the day-to-day of our government. Now, Democrats are surprised that their staffers and school administrators are undercooked Marxists with savior complexes. Condemn them all you want, Biden, but these are the creation of your party. As with everything else the president does, the costs are borne by the out religions, the poor, and the taxpayers and their are children forced to pay for the 2 million college graduates blundering across stages every year.