SCHNECKSVILLE, Pa. \u2014 \u201cGenocide Joe\u201d is a phrase used by pro-Palestine protesters against President Biden because of his unconditional support of Israel amid its onslaught in Gaza.<\/p>\n
But supporters of former president Donald Trump adopted the chant at his campaign rally Saturday night \u2014 even as Trump similarly pledged unconditional support of Israel hours after Iran launched retaliatory drone and missile strikes into the country this weekend.<\/p>\n
Supporters began to chant \u201cgenocide Joe, genocide Joe,\u201d as Trump spoke from a stage in a large field at the Schnecksville fire hall.<\/p>\n
Trump paused before saying: \u201cThey\u2019re not wrong, they\u2019re not wrong. He\u2019s done everything wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n
Iran launched more than 300 drones and missiles toward Israel on Saturday, most of which were intercepted by Israel, the United States and their allies. The assault, in retaliation for Israel\u2019s attack on an Iranian diplomatic facility two weeks ago, has been widely condemned by world leaders including Biden, who pledged \u201cironclad\u201d support for Israeli security.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s unclear what exactly Trump\u2019s rallygoers intended by chanting \u201cgenocide Joe,\u201d a phrase deployed by some Arab American and Muslim voters as well as progressives, who have criticized Biden for continuing to send weapons to Israel as its military campaign in Gaza has killed more than 33,000 Palestinians, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. Israel launched its war in the enclave after Hamas militants rampaged through the Israel-Gaza border fence on Oct. 7 and killed an estimated 1,200 people, many of them civilians, and took about 250 others hostage.<\/p>\n
Democratic voters in Michigan, Wisconsin and other states have organized efforts to vote \u201cuncommitted\u201d or \u201cuninstructed\u201d in their states\u2019 primaries instead of for Biden as a warning to the president that he could lose their votes in November if he does not call for a permanent cease-fire and end military aid to Israel.<\/p>\n
Congressional Republicans have urged more U.S. support for Israel, although the Republican-controlled House has yet to take up a bill passed months ago in the Democratic-controlled Senate that would send aid to Israel along with Ukraine and the Indo-Pacific.<\/p>\n
Trump kicked off his Saturday rally by claiming the attack from Iran \u201cwould not have happened\u201d if he were president, though he did not explain how he would have prevented it.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to say God bless the people of Israel. They\u2019re under attack right now,\u201d he said. \u201cWe show great weakness.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the final days of Trump\u2019s presidency in 2020, Iran attacked a U.S. base in Iraq, with dozens of soldiers suffering traumatic brain injuries as a result.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
SCHNECKSVILLE, Pa. \u2014 \u201cGenocide Joe\u201d is a phrase used by pro-Palestine protesters against President Biden because of his unconditional support of Israel amid its onslaught in Gaza. But supporters of former president Donald Trump adopted the chant at his campaign rally Saturday night \u2014 even as Trump similarly pledged unconditional support of Israel hours after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3148,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}