Biden condemns 'those who don't understand what's going on with the Palestinians' when pressed on antisemitism on campus

President Joe Biden was celebrating Earth Day on Monday when he was asked his perspective on the rowdy protests and Gaza Camp occupations on the campus of Columbia University, Yale and MIT.

These protests have seen students intimidating and threatening Jewish students, calling for the killing of Israeli soldiers, and the eradication of Israel. The mob of students forced Jewish students "out of the camp."

In his response, Biden did something he had previously condemned former President Donald Trump for allegedly doing, he said there were considerations on both sides. 

Now that he is faced with antisemitism on college campuses, he has made it clear that he believes antisemitism cannot be condemned without also saying that those antisemites have a good point.

Biden was asked about the "antisemitic protests on college campuses."

Smiling, Biden said, "I condemn the antisemitic protests, that's why I've set up a program to deal with that."

He was referring to the National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism, which his administration set up in September 2023, just days before a violent massacre was carried out by Palestinian terror group Hamas against Israeli civilians.

"I also condemn those who don’t understand what’s going on with the Palestinians," he said.

"Should the Columbia University president resign?" A reporter asked.

"I didn't know that, I'll have to find out more," he said after mishearing the reporter.

Biden has previously said that "accountability" was in order when Trump, after condemning the violence at a protest in Charlottesville, Virg. in 2017, said that there were some protesters who were simply there to protest the removal of statues commemorating Confederate leaders or memorials.

Trump was then slammed in the press for saying "But you also had people that were very fine people on both sides. You had people in that group – excuse me, excuse me. I saw the same pictures as you did. You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down, of to them, a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name."

Media shortened that to "very fine people on both sides," intimating that Trump had been calling neo-Nazis and white supremacists Nazis that, which he did not do.

While running for office, Biden intoned Charlottesville repeatedly, where an activist in favor of removing the statues, Heather Heyer, was killed when she was hit by a car, saying that his campaign was "a battle for the soul of this nation."

"I know speaking of unity can sound to some like a foolish fantasy these days," Biden said. "I know the forces that divide us are deep and they are real. But I also know they are not new. Our history has been a constant struggle between the American ideal that we all are created equal, and the harsh, ugly reality that racism, nativism, fear and demonization have long torn us apart."

Biden is at risk of losing the far-left side of the Democratic Party which has been staging these protests. During the primaries, protest groups got together to vote "uncommitted" to show Biden that they did not approve of his administration's support of Israel.

Congress has approved a new aid package both for Israel and for those in Gaza whom Israel is fighting against.