Trump has waffled on whether the Israel-Gaza war should end. But speaking to wealthy donors behind closed doors, he said that he supports Israel’s right to continue “its war on terror.”

Former president Donald Trump promised to crush pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses, telling a roomful of donors — a group that he joked included “98 percent of my Jewish friends” — that he would expel student demonstrators from the United States, according to participants in the roundtable event with him in New York.

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    Ya, a lot of genocide apologia in this thread. It’s off putting, racist, and paternalistic. There’s got to be other ways to support Biden without saying he’ll be good for those poor Palestinians, the group they’re currently helping bomb. Plus, his administration has threatened the ICC and UN for trying to protect them.

    But the fact of the matter is that without huge changes to our political systems, the Democrats will just bring out the Project 2025 excuse from now on forever. This is the most important election in the world. Just like the last one. And the one before it. And the next one. Like in this thread, criticism is impossible against the Democrats, even while they push a genocide, for the alternative is Trump or someone like him. Not to say that Project 2025 doesn’t scare the crap out of me. But it does seem best for them to always have the US on the edge of fascism as a cudgel.

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      We need to put our petty ideological differences aside and determine a course of action. If I were asked, my vote would be to vote for Biden (despite the genocide), and organize ourselves into a coalition, a voting bloc.

      But we need to be more understanding of those that will vote third party or never vote for Biden because of the genocide. Their grievances are just.