In an interview with NewsNation’s “The Hill Sunday,” Fetterman said, “Now, of course, it is a great American value to protest, but I do not believe living in a pup tent for Hamas is really helpful.”
For over a week, demonstrations demanding an end to U.S. military assistance to Israel and a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza have been ongoing on a number of college campuses throughout the nation. In defiance of university authorities, some demonstrators set up encampments on campus, including Columbia University, the site of the most current round of protests.
Numerous educational institutions summoned municipal and federal law enforcement to disperse the demonstrations and camps, resulting in the apprehension and detention of numerous pupils around the nation.
“I will state that there is blatant antisemitism present in every one of these demonstrations. And then sometimes, it flares up once again,” Fetterman said.
Then he referred to a Columbia University student protest leader who was heard declaring, “People should be grateful that I am not just going out and murdering Zionists,” and “Zionists do not deserve to live,” in a newly discovered video from earlier this year. Last week, Columbia barred the student. The student, Khymani James, said that there was no context for the deleted statements.