'Shameful': GOP lawmaker shreds 'AWOL' Biden for throwing Jews 'under the bus' amid anti-Israel protests

A Republican lawmaker from New Jersey praised Speaker Mike Johnson’s determination to sojourn Columbia University successful effect to the anti-Israel protests connected field and blasted President Biden’s enactment connected the contented that has dispersed to campuses nationwide.

"October 7th should person been the implicit wake-up telephone arsenic to what Hamas and institution are each about, Iran too, truthful Speaker Johnson did a magnificent job,"Smith told Fox News Digital this week astir Speaker Johnson’s sojourn to Columbia’s field contrasted with President Biden’s enactment connected the issue.

"Not truthful with the president. The president has been obscurity to beryllium found. He's been AWOL. He's been enabling. He's truthful disquieted astir losing Dearborn, Michigan votes that helium has thrown Jews and the Israeli radical nether the autobus and I deliberation it's shameful. Shameful. And helium needs to get his dependable and talk retired boldly. Zero tolerance for antisemitism."

Michigan is seen by galore arsenic a "must win" authorities for Biden this November aft helium narrowly won determination by little than 3 points. In caller months, a growing number of Palestinians successful Dearborn, Michigan and different places successful the authorities person suggested they volition driblet their enactment of him if helium continues to enactment Israel's subject operations successful Gaza. 

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L - Protester breaks model astatine Columbia University R - Joe Biden (Getty Images)

"We tin anticipation but I deliberation it's anticipation that's astir apt not going to happen," Smith said erstwhile asked if helium believes Biden should sojourn 1 of the galore assemblage campuses experiencing anti-Israel protests.

Fox News Digital asked Smith what helium hopes to spot the Biden medication bash going forward.

"To talk retired connected behalf of the Israelis, to enactment the Israelis successful their all-out effort to escaped themselves of the Hamas cancer. Hamas, again, is committed to 1 thing, sidesplitting Jews. Even erstwhile you work the Hamas charter it says don't participate into bid conferences. They privation to kill. They privation to perpetrate genocide and that's what they are successful the process of doing. That's what Iran is each astir nether its misguided leadership."

"I thought, present we spell again," Smith told Fox News Digital erstwhile asked astir Columbia University’s caller determination to cancel its graduation owed to the anti-Israel protests that led to violence, harassment, and arrests connected its field successful caller weeks.

"People who are committed, that is to say, the Students for Free Palestine and others, to Hamas, which is simply a violent enactment and a enactment that promotes genocide against Jews and Israel," Smith said. "To deliberation that they've present canceled the graduation exercises. The information that they have, successful my opinion, not conscionable there, but passim the country, including astatine Rutgers successful my state, they're spewing a creed of hatred and antisemitism that puts students astatine hazard and raises the prospects of violence, to a very, precise precocious level."

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A pupil protester parades a Palestinian emblem extracurricular the entranceway to Hamilton Hall connected the field of Columbia University, Tuesday, April 30, 2024, successful New York.  (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, Pool)

Smith visited Rutgers University successful his location authorities of New Jersey past week successful effect to an anti-Israel protestation connected that field wherever students listed demands including the schools divestment from Israeli entities.

"We conscionable had a concern astatine Rutgers wherever determination was different encampment similar we're seeing each over," Smith explained. "It's each organized. It's thing sporadic astir this. It's each organized. And they made 10 demands. They called it requests of the medication and we're told that 8 of those requests person already been fixed and 2 of them are nether superior consideration."

Smith said divestment is 1 of the demands being considered by Rutgers and helium believes that BDS is simply an effort to "delegitimize Israel" and crook it into a "pauper state."

" The president has been obscurity to beryllium found. He's been AWOL. He's been enabling. He's truthful disquieted astir losing Dearborn, Michigan votes," Rep. Chris Smith said to Fox News Digital. (Rep. Chris Smith's Office)

"It's a terrible, unspeakable question and yet Rutgers has said, well, let's speech astir it," Smith continued.  "They person agreed to acceptable up this taste halfway which I deliberation volition go perchance a haven for antisemitic hatred. The president is asked to apologize for the Israeli genocide. He ought to beryllium asking Hamas and the students to apologize for supporting, opening connected October 7th but besides earlier that and present aft that, a genocidal regime."

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Biden has been heavy criticized for his effect to the anti-Israel protests crossed the state and galore took contented with his decisions to wait 9 days earlier giving an on-camera remark and declining to nonstop successful the National Guard to reconstruct order.

"So fto maine beryllium clear," Biden said past week. "Violent protestation is not protected. Peaceful protestation is. It's against the instrumentality erstwhile unit occurs. Destroying spot is not a peaceful protest. It's against the law. Vandalism. Trespassing. Breaking windows. Shutting down campuses. Forcing the cancelation of classes and graduations. None of this is simply a peaceful protest. Threatening people. Intimidating people. Instilling fearfulness successful radical is not peaceful protest. It's against the law."

Fox News Digital reached retired to the White House for comment.