MSNBC’s Chris Hayes reacted to the newest developments at Columbia College and campuses across the nation on Wednesday’s version of All In by searching for to supply cowl to the protestors by claiming they’re merely “anti-war” and that every one the anti-Semitism is from off-campus “trolls.” As for the GOP response, he dismissed Speaker Mike Johnson as “offended.”
Popping out of a business, Hayes declared that “Recent off the passage of these overseas assist payments that President Biden signed in the present day, Republican Home Speaker Mike Johnson did not take a victory lap. As an alternative, the LSU graduate made an offended press look on the campus of Columbia College in New York, the place he was booed by a lot of the crowd assembled.”
Was Johnson speculated to be joyful? The truth that the gang booed him says extra in regards to the crowd than it does about Johnson, however Hayes continued, “As you most likely heard, the faculty has been the middle of the media world for the final week over pupil protests of Israel’s struggle in Gaza.”
He added:
Final week, the varsity’s president, after showing earlier than a Home committee, had lots of these college students arrested by the New York Police Division, thrown out of their college housing amid allegations of harassment towards Jewish college students on campus, or no less than close to the campus gates, the place non-students and trolls have gathered to spout some really genuinely vile, threatening stuff in viral scenes.
As Hayes was acknowledging the anti-Semitism current among the many demonstrators, MSNBC confirmed photos of a few of these individuals. One was a gaggle marching behind a banner that learn “From Gaza to Jenin” and “Revolution to Victory” with a map of what they think about a future Palestinian state ought to seem like. It was a map that included not merely Gaza and the West Financial institution, however all of what’s internationally unquestionably acknowledged to be Israeli territory.
That’s one thing that teams like College students for Justice in Palestine, who’re college students demonstrating on campus, would agree with, and they’re given platforms on MSNBC. But, Hayes sought to dismiss concerns about this type of anti-Semitism, as a substitute claiming they’re merely anti-war and that the true drawback is that Republicans wish to put an finish to those unlawful encampments:
Even because the anti-war protests unfold to different universities throughout the nation, and conservatives like Johnson blast larger schooling as a bastion of radicalism, once more, Senators Tom Cotton and Josh Hawley have even known as for the Nationwide Guard to come back in. At present, Greg Abbott despatched within the Division of Public Security into the UT Austin campus. None of this new for any of those conservatives. Cotton, you’ll bear in mind, wished the Military to crush protests towards police brutality in 2020.
It was extra that Cotton wished to finish the rioting and the looting, however why would Hayes let info get in the best way of a great narrative? Moreover, these demonstrators aren’t anti-war, they’re simply upset that their facet is shedding a struggle that it began.
Here’s a transcript for the April 24 present:
MSNBC All In With Chris Hayes
4/24/2024
8:45 PM ET
CHRIS HAYES: Recent off the passage of these overseas assist payments that President Biden signed in the present day, Republican Home Speaker Mike Johnson did not take a victory lap. As an alternative, the LSU graduate made an offended press look on the campus of Columbia College in New York, the place he was booed by a lot of the crowd assembled.
As you most likely heard, the faculty has been the middle of the media world for the final week over pupil protests of Israel’s struggle in Gaza. Final week, the varsity’s president, after showing earlier than a Home committee, had lots of these college students arrested by the New York Police Division, thrown out of their college housing amid allegations of harassment towards Jewish college students on campus, or no less than close to the campus gates, the place non-students and trolls have gathered to spout some really genuinely vile, threatening stuff in viral scenes.
Even because the anti-war protests unfold to different universities throughout the nation, and conservatives like Johnson blast larger schooling as a bastion of radicalism, once more, Senators Tom Cotton and Josh Hawley have even known as for the Nationwide Guard to come back in. At present, Greg Abbott despatched within the Division of Public Security into the UT Austin campus. None of this new for any of those conservatives. Cotton, you’ll bear in mind, wished the Military to crush protests towards police brutality in 2020.