Activists chanted slogans such as “Kamala, Kamala, you can’t hide, you are committing genocide”
University of Michigan students chanted anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist slogans at US Vice President Kamala Harris, going so far as to accuse her of genocide for her support of Israel, as she spoke a speech Thursday in the city of Ann Arbor, the Jerusalem Post reported.
Harris traveled to the University of Michigan to discuss climate policy, student activism and environmental justice in the United States. At the same time, students waved Palestinian flags outside the auditorium. “Kamala, Kamala, you can’t hide, you are committing genocide,” the students shouted. They launched other slogans such as “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”, or “no more pennies, no more pennies, no more money for the crimes of Israel”.
The protesters, believed to be part of the pro-Palestinian academic group Students Allied for Freedom and Equality, used Kamala Harris’ visit to attack the Biden administration, which provides $3.8 billion in military aid to Israel each year. . “Unconditional support for the Zionist entity to continue its ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the occupied territories,” said a student. “The Biden-Harris administration, like its predecessors, is complicit in the erasure of the Palestinian people and their homeland,” she continued according to images shared on Twitter by Gutenschwager.
Kamala Harris, whose husband Doug Emhoff is Jewish, once got embroiled in a controversial incident when she defended, over a misunderstanding, a student at George Mason University in Virginia who accused Israel of ‘ethnic genocide’ during an exchange in September 2021. She quickly returned to this apparent support, declaring that she “did not agree at all” with the student in question, thus rejecting the allegations that she had encouraged her point of view.