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President Biden formed the events successful Charlottesville, Virginia, and his framing of erstwhile President Trump's response, arsenic the impetus for his 2020 White House tally – but Biden present faces his ain "Charlottesville moment."
Biden has repeatedly and emphatically condemned the riots successful Charlottesville, Virginia, successful 2017 for spewing "antisemitic bile," adjacent saying the protests motivated his tally for the White House past predetermination cycle.
"In that moment, I knew the menace to this federation was dissimilar immoderate I had ever seen successful my lifetime," Biden said successful 2019 of the riots erstwhile announcing his tally for the White House against then-President Trump.
Flash guardant to 2024, antisemitism is moving rampant connected the campuses of immoderate of the country’s astir elite universities, including protesters connected Columbia’s field saying Jewish students were Hamas’ "next targets" amid ongoing protests.
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President Biden speaks to the National Action Network normal remotely from the South Court Auditorium of the White House, April 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
"Al-Qassam you marque america proud, termination different worker now," protesters connected the Ivy League field chanted implicit the weekend, referring to the subject helping of the violent enactment Hamas.
They besides chanted: "We accidental justice, you accidental how. Burn Tel Aviv to the ground" and "Hamas we emotion you. We enactment your rockets, too."
The protests successful Charlottesville successful 2017, which played retired crossed 2 days successful August of that year, included White nationalists descending connected the metropolis who were met by hundreds of counter-protesters. The protests devolved into violence, including 3 deaths and dozens of injuries stemming from a car plowing done radical and different attacks.
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The protests were condemned by some Republicans and Democrats arsenic a hateful show of bigotry, including Trump astatine the time, who said successful a connection that specified protests and unit person "no spot successful America."
Anti-Israel agitators conception an encampment connected Columbia University’s field successful New York City connected Monday, April 22, 2024. (Peter Gerber for Fox News Digital)
"We condemn successful the strongest imaginable presumption this egregious show of hatred, bigotry and unit connected galore sides, connected galore sides," Trump said successful August of that year. Trump added days aboriginal successful a property league that helium condemned the "egregious show of hatred, bigotry, and violence" and came nether occurrence from Democrats for his remarks that determination was "blame connected some sides" and "very good people, connected some sides."
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Former President Trump astatine a rally successful Arizona. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
Biden pointed to Trump’s comments arsenic helping motivate him to tally for the presidency.
"With those words, the president of the United States assigned a motivation equivalence betwixt those spreading hatred and those with the courageousness to basal against it," Biden said successful 2019 erstwhile announcing his candidacy.
Anti-Israel protesters show extracurricular of Columbia University’s field successful New York City connected Thursday, April 18, 2024. (Peter Gerber for Fox News Digital)
Biden has repeatedly pointed to Charlottesville arsenic a infinitesimal of shame for the nation, including connected the 4th anniversary, erstwhile the White House released a connection saying the rally was a "battle for the psyche of America was laid bare for each to see."
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"The forces of hatred and unit were summoned from the shadows arsenic Neo-Nazis, Klansmen, and achromatic supremacists descended connected a historical American city. With torches successful their hands and veins bulging from their necks, they spewed the aforesaid antisemitic bile that was heard successful Germany successful the 1930s and with the aforesaid beatings and bigotry we saw successful Jim Crow America for astir a century," helium said. Though Biden has repeatedly cited Charlottesville, helium has travel nether criticism, arsenic precocious as 5 months ago, for not visiting the metropolis pursuing the protests.
"Charlottesville, Virginia," were adjacent the archetypal 2 words Biden uttered erstwhile announcing his tally for the White House.
Members of the Patriot Front march crossed Memorial Bridge successful beforehand of the Lincoln Memorial connected Dec. 4, 2021, successful Washington, D.C. The radical broke disconnected from the White nationalist radical Vanguard America aft the deadly "Unite the Right" rally successful Charlottesville, Virginia, successful 2017. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Biden is present facing his ain "Charlottesville moment," arsenic protests rage connected assemblage campuses stretching from Yale to the University of California, Berkeley, arsenic anti-Israel students acceptable up encampments portion demanding their schools wholly divest from Israel.
Protests had dispersed crossed the federation successful October of past year, erstwhile Hamas launched its archetypal attacks against Israel, sparking war. They person since intensified, including this month.
Protests astatine Columbia University and different schools person intensified since October. (Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images)
A Columbia prof told Fox Digital implicit the play that anti-Israel field groups person morphed into becoming an "actual panic organization," citing the protester who was seen holding a motion reading, "Al-Qasam’s (sic) adjacent targets" that pointed toward Jewish students. A rabbi connected Columbia’s field has warned Jewish students to permission field owed to the antisemitism.
"The events of the past fewer days, particularly past night, person made it wide that Columbia University’s Public Safety and the NYPD cannot warrant Jewish students’ information successful the look of utmost antisemitism and anarchy," Rabbi Elie Buechler wrote to students implicit the weekend. "It profoundly pains maine to accidental that I would powerfully urge you instrumentality location arsenic soon arsenic imaginable and stay location until the world successful and astir field has dramatically improved."
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More than 100 protesters were arrested connected Columbia’s field past week, portion dozens much were arrested connected Yale’s and NYU’s field this week.
Biden connected Monday reiterated his condemnation of the convulsive protests, portion facing criticisms online that his remarks echoed what Trump said successful 2017 of the Charlottesville riots.
"I condemn the antisemitic protests. That’s wherefore I person acceptable up a programme to woody with that. I besides condemn those who don't recognize what's going connected with the Palestinians," Biden told reporters Monday.
Clashes astatine the Unite the Right rally successful Charlottesville, Virginia, connected Aug. 12, 2017. (Evelyn Hockstein/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)
"This definite sounds similar he’s ACTUALLY saying determination are precise good radical connected some sides," OutKick laminitis Clay Travis said.
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"Joe Biden condemned what helium called the ‘antisemitic bile’ of right-wing marchers successful Charlottesville, Virginia, and called it a 'defining moment' for America. Today we're witnessing Charlottesville happening connected the field of Columbia University but Biden is silent. This is simply a defining infinitesimal for this presidency. Will helium support pandering to the antisemitic near oregon face it the mode helium did the antisemitic right?" Fox News contributor Marc Thiessen tweeted.
Anti-Israel agitators artifact roadways extracurricular of Yale University successful New Haven, Connecticut, connected Monday, April 22, 2024. The protests are continuing aft a week of demonstrations calling connected the assemblage to divest from subject weapons manufacturers. (Michael Ruiz/Fox News Digital)
American Spectator writer Nate Hochman noted, "I'm aged capable to retrieve erstwhile ‘good radical connected some sides’ was evil and racist."
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The Federalist's editor-in-chief Mollie Hemingway wrote, "President Biden says determination are bully radical connected some sides of October 7."
Earlier this month, Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetterman, who has openly supported Israel and condemned members of his ain enactment for not doing the same, compared the protests unfolding connected assemblage campuses to Charlottesville.
Anti-Israel demonstrators connected Columbia University’s field successful New York City connected Thursday, April 18, 2024. (Peter Gerber for Fox News Digital)
"I afloat hold with the White House – these ‘protests’ are antisemitic, unconscionable, and dangerous. Add immoderate tiki torches and it’s Charlottesville for these Jewish students," Fetterman tweeted arsenic the Columbia protests intensified implicit the weekend.
Israel has go a lightning rod for the Democratic Party since October, with the party’s progressive faction, specified arsenic members of the Squad, coming nether fierce condemnation from the Jewish assemblage and conservatives for not taking harder stances against Hamas. Biden is adjacent facing an "Abandon Biden" question successful battleground states specified arsenic Michigan and Wisconsin, stemming from the president’s support of Israel during its warfare successful Gaza. The question calls Israel’s actions "genocide."
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Fox News Digital reached retired to the Biden run and the White House for remark connected the substance Tuesday, but did not person a effect from either.
Fox News Digital's Michael Lee and Lindsay Kornick contributed to this report.
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