NATIONAL REVIEW
Kamala Harris Says Anti-Israel Student Protesters ‘Are Showing Exactly What the Human Emotion Should Be’
Philip Klein
July 8, 2024

There have been many hints at the fact that Vice President Kamala Harris is more hostile to Israel than President Biden. As Democrats take a closer look at her as the most likely replacement should Biden drop out of the race, her views on Middle East policy will undergo closer scrutiny. Now, in an interview with Joan Walsh in the The Nation, Harris makes clear that she sympathizes with the anti-Israel protesters on college campuses — even though she doesn’t agree with everything they said. READ MORE

JNS Jonathan Tobin: Kamala Harris thinks campus antisemites are very fine people Whether or not the vice president becomes the Democratic nominee, any attempt to portray her as a friend of the Jews is undermined by her praise for pro-Hamas mobs.

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