AOC praises pro-Palestinian protesters causing chaos with tent camps at Columbia and Yale as she introduces Biden, who says: ‘Listen to that lady’

• Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez opened at a White House Earth Day occasion
• She applauded the ‘management’ of pro-Palestinian protesters on campuses 
• President Joe Biden mentioned ‘pay attention to that girl’ then condemned antisemitism

Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez applauded pro-Palestinian protesters Monday as she opened for President Joe Biden at an Earth Day occasion in Virginia. 

AOC and fellow progressives, Sens. Bernie Sanders and Ed Markey, had been tapped to be the opening act at an occasion through which the president introduced an growth of the American Climate Corps, a inexperienced jobs coaching program, and extra money towards residential photo voltaic panels. 

When it was Ocasio-Cortez’s flip to communicate she famous that Biden’s federal funding in local weather change happened due to the ‘energy of organizing’ – bringing collectively ‘younger folks, local weather advocates, labor organizers and working folks of all backgrounds.’ 

‘It is particularly vital that we keep in mind the ability of younger folks shaping this nation right this moment, of all days, as we as soon as once more witness the management of these peaceable student-led protests on campuses like Columbia and Yale and Berkeley and many others,’ Ocasio-Cortez mentioned. 

Moments later, Biden got here onstage and counseled AOC, telling the group, ‘You know, I realized a very long time in the past – pay attention to that girl, pay attention to that girl.’ 

‘We’re going to speak extra about one other a part of the world too actual shortly,’ he mentioned – a touch they’d speak in regards to the Middle East after the official program ended.

Biden and the New York Democrat might be seen huddling afterward and additionally holding palms as they walked offstage. 

Ocasio-Cortez, Sanders and Markey rode Marine One again to the White House with Biden and headed into the Oval Office.

The president and the so-called Squad, which incorporates AOC, have not seen eye to eye on the subject of Israel within the aftermath of the October 7 Hamas terror assault. 

Fellow Squad member Rep. Ilhan Omar’s daughter Isra Hirsi was arrested and then later suspended for participating in anti-Israel demonstrations on Columbia’s campus, which have gone on for days. 

Last week greater than 100 college students had been arrested on Wednesday and Thursday for collaborating in sit-ins however by Friday college students had returned to their ‘Gaza solidarity camp.’ 

While Ocasio-Cortez lauded pupil demonstrators – over the weekend protesters on and off Columbia’s campus veered into antisemitic territory.  

Jewish college students reported being instructed to ‘return to Poland’ and ‘cease killing kids.’  

White House spokesman Andrew Bates condemned the actions of those protesters.

‘While each American has the suitable to peaceable protest, requires violence and bodily intimidation concentrating on Jewish college students and the Jewish neighborhood are blatantly antisemitic, unconscionable and harmful,’ Bates mentioned in an announcement. 

Early Monday Columbia President Nemat ‘Minouche’ Shafik introduced that lessons can be held just about, as a campus rabbi inspired Jewish college students to return residence for his or her security.

‘I condemn the antisemitic protests. That’s why I’ve arrange a program to deal with that,’ Biden instructed reporters as he left Virginia. 

‘I additionally condemn these who do not perceive what is going on on with the Palestinians,’ the president additionally supplied.