EXPLAINER: How US campus protests over Gaza differ from Vietnam war era

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Biden, who last month signed legislation to provide $14 billion more aid to Israel, has faced growing criticism over his handling of the crisis, with hundreds of thousands of voters casting “uncommitted ballots” in Democratic primaries in recent months to express their frustration and anger. “The night before the shooting, they burned down the ROTC building. This wasn’t a bunch of students sitting in tents on the lawn,” he said.

Now, the US has over 15 million undergraduate students, with white students accounting for about 41%, Latino students 18%, Black students 11%, and Asian students 6%, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Women outnumber men on college campuses. A YouGov poll released Thursday showed that 53% of adults felt that college administrators’ decision to suspend and expel some pro-Palestinian protesters was “about right” or “not harsh enough.” That number jumps to 68% for those aged 65 and over.

“In 1968, one of the great failures of the party establishment was that they ignored anti-war youth and continued the horrific war in Vietnam and alienated young voters, and I feel like they’re at risk of doing the same thing,” he said.

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