Republican Congressman Darrell Issa told Fox News Digital it would be a \u2018huge help\u2019 if President Biden disavowed and rejected donations from progressive groups that are fueling the anti-Israel protests nationwide, while also explaining that the tepid response from Democrats shows the rise of anti-Semitism within the party.<\/p>\n
If the president would come out, whether it\u2019s George Soros or a host of other supporters and be honest and say that, you know, not only would he send the money back but he wants them to stop funding people who support violence it would be a huge help,\u2019 Issa said. \u2018I don\u2019t expect him to do it.\u2019<\/p>\n
The anti-Israel protests have been organized by groups fueled by progressive donors, including George Soros, some of whom have also donated to the Democratic Party and Biden, Fox News Digital reported last month.<\/p>\n
Soros recently gave $250,000 to help Biden win re-election and Politico reported earlier this month that some major Biden donors have also funded groups associated with the college protests.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Issa told Fox News Digital that the response to the protest from Democrats has been an example that anti-Semitism has found a home within the party.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The growth of The Squad and people who think the same and are willing to talk the same, or at least support them has certainly caused people to realize that the party of the Democrats of Robert F Kennedy, John Kennedy and for that matter of Steny Hoyer is gone,\u2019 Issa told Fox News Digital this week.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018They\u2019re no longer willing to stand up for Israel or against anti-Semitism and it\u2019s now coming home to be seen in these incredible amounts of votes where they won\u2019t support Israel.\u2019<\/p>\n
Issa told Fox News Digital he is \u2018deeply disappointed\u2019 by President Biden\u2019s response to the anti-Israel protests on college campuses nationwide and explained that the president\u2019s desire to \u2018placate\u2019 both sides is an indicator that anti-Semitism has been festering in the Democratic Party for years.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I think President Biden is trying to placate both sides, tell both sides that he\u2019s in the middle,\u2019 Issa said. \u2018He\u2019s managed to upset the Middle Eastern community many of whom wanted decisive action and the Israel and pro-Israel community who see him as hurting the effort to bring to an end, if you will, Hamas and their allies.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2018I\u2019m really sad because, historically, they\u2019ve enjoyed both Arab and Israeli pro-Israel votes, Jewish votes and the Republicans have always been the party that has supported Israel. George W Bush, no stronger friend, President Trump, no stronger friend. You know, president after president promised to move the embassy to Jerusalem. President Trump did it. So, when you really look at it you realize that for a long time we\u2019ve been the pro-Israel party. Only now are people realizing that real anti-Semitism exists in the Democratic Party, and it\u2019s condoned there.\u2019<\/p>\n
President Biden waited 9 days before giving on-camera remarks about the anti-Israel violence on campus which Issa said was a key reason why the protests spread the way they did.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018President Biden needed to say on day one to all the governors of either party that you act or I will act because, in fact, the civil disobedience that turns into violence is a federal issue,\u2019 Issa said. \u2018Had he done that, had he challenged the governors to go in aggressively and quickly, this would be over instead of watching it grow.\u2019<\/p>\n
Issa, who was in high school in Ohio during the unrest and shootings at Kent State University in 1970, told Fox News Digital he is concerned that history is repeating itself.<\/p>\n
\u2018As someone who was in high school when Kent State had its riot and not only did they close after May 4th but so did almost every university around the country, I see history repeating itself in a nasty way,\u2019 Issa said. \u2018The protests against the Vietnam War were fine, violence wasn\u2019t fine, and they were slow to get past it because many of the professors were on the same side as the students.\u2019<\/p>\n
Issa continued, \u2018This is the same situation, the anti-Semitism on campus, the elite are part of that. They\u2019ve been teaching it for a long time, and as a result, they have a hard time enforcing. Very few states, even governors have been willing to do what Governor Youngkin in Virginia and others did, which was act quickly and if it didn\u2019t work, act again. In my home state of California, it\u2019s amazing that UCLA was able to build a building faster than anyone in California is allowed to get a permit. They built it out of plywood and everyone watched as they did it and then they finally tried to slow it down or stop it, and it was too late.\u2019<\/p>\n
Fox News Digital reached out to the White House for comment but did not receive a response.<\/p>\n\n
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