Will college Gaza protests tip the U.S. election?

President Joe Biden, under pressure from fellow Democrats to address Gaza protests at U.S. college campuses, last week made his first public remarks about the unrest. He criticized the “chaos” over Israel’s offensive against Hamas while defending the freedom of students to speak their minds, USA Today reported. Peaceful protest, Biden said, is “in the best tradition of how Americans respond to consequential issues,” but “violent protest is not protected.”

Pro-Palestinian students who set up encampments on college quads around the country said Israel’s supporters enabled genocide. Israel backers accused protesters of antisemitism. Analysts compared the unrest to the anti-Vietnam War protests of the 1960s, warning Biden could face trouble with voters the way then-President Lyndon B. Johnson did at the height of the Vietnam era. Could the November election hinge on where the protests go from here?

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