Former President Donald Trump downplayed the 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, against the backdrop of the mass college demonstrations over the war in Gaza.
Demonstrators chant at a pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Texas Wednesday April 24, 2024 in Austin, Texas. Protests Wednesday on the campuses of at least two universities involved clashes with police, while another university shut down its campus for …downplayed the 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, against the backdrop of the mass college demonstrations over the war in Gaza.would say, constantly, that he ran because of Charlottesville.
The 2017 “Unite the Right” rally was sparked by Charlottesville’s decision to remove the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. Protesters chanted antisemitic phrases and carried tiki torches. Fights broke out after opposing protesters showed up. One woman died after a car plowed into a crowd. Two state troopers died after a helicopter that was monitoring the incident crashed.
The former president’s post comes as hundreds of university students across the country have participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations, including at Columbia University and the University of Southern California. The students call for their schools to cut ties with Israeli entities.
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