President Biden\u2019s threat to halt offensive weapons shipments to Israel is prompting a wave of backlash among the House GOP, as progressive Democrats take a victory lap to celebrate the move.<\/p>\n
Republican lawmakers who spoke with Fox News Digital accused Biden of caving to pressure brought on by widespread anti-Israel demonstrations across the U.S. Leftists, meanwhile, praised student activists protesting on college campuses, and encouraged them to keep going even as tensions at some of these events have already erupted in conflict between police and protesters.<\/p>\n
\u2018First it was using Hoosier tax dollars to cancel student loans, now he\u2019s bowing to the demands of Little Gazas on Ivy League campuses,\u2019 Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., told Fox News Digital. \u2018It\u2019s very clear Biden cares more about blue-haired gender studies majors than he does farmers, police officers, truckers, or the millions of other Americans who work hard to make our country great.\u2019<\/p>\n
Rep. Mike Waltz, R-Fla., suggested to Fox News Digital that the president was motivated by threats to his re-election bid from the progressive left.<\/p>\n
\u2018Joe Biden is putting his fear of a hundred thousand progressives in Michigan ahead of the security of the U.S. and Israel. This is politics at its worst and sends a disgraceful message to our allies,\u2019 Waltz said.<\/p>\n
Biden\u2019s announcement also caught heat from House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, who called it a \u2018dangerous mistake.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2018This shortsighted move will call into question U.S. reliability around the world,\u2019 he said in a statement shared with Fox News Digital by the committee.<\/p>\n
And the No. 4 House Republican, GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., said: \u2018Joe Biden is prioritizing appeasing the pro-Hamas base of the Democrat Party over returning American and Israeli hostages and supporting Israel\u2019s right to exist.\u2019<\/p>\n
On the other side of the aisle, members of the far-left \u2018Squad\u2019 suggested Biden\u2019s harsher stance on Israel was due in part to the campus protests.<\/p>\n
\u2018This is what young people across the country were protesting for and finally the needle has moved in a significant way. I hope we see more progress, but don\u2019t ever let people tell you that your voices are meaningless and your actions are worthless. The arc of what is possible is always within us to bend,\u2019 Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., wrote on X, along with a portion of Biden\u2019s CNN interview warning Israel not to invade Rafah.<\/p>\n
Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., said on X, \u2018We have to keep standing for what is right. Organizing is working. Protesting is working.\u2019<\/p>\n
The college protests here have garnered bipartisan criticism from virtually all Republicans and a significant number of Democrats, but progressives have continued to show strong support for the students and other activists on campus.<\/p>\n
Comments by Omar, for example, referring to some Jewish students as \u2018pro-genocide,\u2019 have earned her a GOP-led censure resolution, filed by Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., on Tuesday. She made the remarks during a recent visit to Columbia University\u2019s anti-Israel encampment.<\/p>\n\n
President Biden\u2019s threat to halt offensive weapons shipments to Israel is prompting a wave of backlash among the House GOP, as progressive Democrats take a victory lap to celebrate the move. Republican lawmakers who spoke with Fox News Digital accused Biden of caving to pressure brought on by widespread anti-Israel demonstrations across the U.S. Leftists, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18948,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18947","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}