Trump Says Campus Protests Are Worse Than Charlottesville Rally

(NY Daily News/TNS/Hamodia) — Former President Donald Trump said the pro-Palestinian protests sweeping college campuses are worse than the violent Unite the Right 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia where a counter-protester was killed by right-wing extremists.

“Charlottesville is like a ‘peanut’ compared to the riots and anti-Israel protests that are happening all over our country, right now,” Trump wrote on his social media platform late Wednesday.

Trump also blamed his electoral opponent, President Joe Biden, for how he has dealt with the war in Gaza.

“He sends the wrong message every single time,” Trump said. “The fact is that (Biden) hates Israel and Hates the Jewish people. The problem is that he hates the Palestinians even more, and he just doesn’t know what to do.”

The protests rocking Columbia University and other campuses across the country have divided Democrats, with young voters especially disagreeing with Biden’s support for Israel.

Polls say Biden is seriously underperforming in polls of younger voters, which have traditionally been a strongly Democratic-leaning demographic.

Biden has recently taken a harsher stance toward Israel, including on its proposed move into Rafah, the last Hamas stronghold in Gaza. Israel-supporters accuse Biden of pandering for the votes of the anti-Israel elements in his party.