Democrats met with pro-Palestinian protesters have had an array of responses to the interruptions — from yelling back to attempting to connect them to Russia.
But President Biden, who has faced a host of cease-fire supporters across the country, has been markedly more sympathetic. Even though they wholly disagree with his Israel policy, he often sides with the protesters’ sentiments, urging event security to let them be before being escorted away.
That’s in sharp contrast to many other Democrats who have sometimes lost their patience with the confrontations.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) accused some protesters who confronted her at a theater of lying about her stance. Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif), who has had protesters outside her San Francisco home, once accused them on television of puppeting a message by Russian President Vladimir Putin and then called for the FBI to investigate.
It marks another example of the divide among …