Biden faces silent Gaza protest at Martin Luther King Jr’s college

A Morehouse College graduate with his back turned, holds a Palestinian flag while US President Joe Biden speaks during a commencement ceremony. — Reuters picATLANTA, May 20 — US President Joe Biden said yesterday he heard the voice of Gaza war protesters as some students turned their backs on his graduation ceremony speech at the former university of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.

“I support peaceful, non-violent protest. Your voices should be heard, and I promise you I hear them,” said Biden, who wore a maroon and black gown in the colours of the all-male university.The speech was Biden’s most direct encounter with US students since the Gaza protests engulfed campuses nationwide, causing him political troubles with an election rematch against Donald Trump just over six months away.

A number of Morehouse students had called for Biden’s speech to be cancelled over the Gaza war but the ceremony went ahead without disruption. Biden had earlier applauded as the college’s valedictorian, DeAngelo Jeremiah Fletcher, also called for an immediate ceasefire in his own speech. Biden did not specifically mention his rival Donald Trump but leaned heavily into themes of democracy and racism that he has previously invoked while talking about the twice-impeached Republican former president.

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