NYC Councilman on Israel–Palestinian Campus Protests: I Never Dreamed There’d Be a US ‘Movement to Back Terrorists’ by Ryan Morgan – US Politics News

Democrat New York City Councilman Robert Holden expressed dismay at the ongoing protests against Israel at Columbia University and criticized members of his party for not doing more to condemn what he described as radical elements expressing support for terrorism.
“I never in a million years would dream that there would be a movement in the United States to back terrorists, Hamas,” Mr. Holden said in an interview with NTD’s “Capitol Report” on Thursday. “I mean, that’s what this appears to us in New York City, many of us.”
Columbia University has become a flashpoint for heightened protests focused on the long-running Israel–Palestinian conflict, and the ongoing Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip. Activists recently set up an encampment on the university campus and expressed pro-Palestinian sentiments and criticism of the Israeli government….