Tom Cotton and ABC’s Jon Karl Throw Down After GOP Senator Calls College Protest Camps ‘Little Gazas’: They ‘Deserve to Be Mocked!’
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AK) and ABC News’ Jonathan Karl had a fiery exchange on Sunday’s This Week after the Arkansas Senator repeatedly referred to college protest camps as “Little Gazas.”
“It was absolutely too late,” Cotton said of President Joe Biden’s response to the protests. “It was two weeks after these pro-Hamas fanatics had taken over these campuses and set up these ‘Little Gazas.'” Cotton continued:
COTTON: (Biden) said, ‘Well, we shouldn’t have antisemitism,’ or hate speech in the abstract, or Islamophobia. Where are the encampments, Jon, on college campuses spreading Islamophobia? Why is Joe Biden so equivocal? Why does he have to draw a moral equivalence between thousands of students who are setting up these ‘Little Gazas’ all across America —
KARL: Can I, Can I ask —
COTTON: — Engage in hate speech against Jews, assaulting Jews, disobeying the law, in some fictional encampment that’s spreading Islamophobia.
KARL: Can I ask you, you just three or four times used the phrase, “Little Gazas.” What do you mean by that?
COTTON: Well, they call themself the Gaza Solidarity Encampment. They’re little; they’re “Little Gazas.”
KARL: I mean are you — it seems like you’re mocking the situation in Gaza.
COTTON: A lot of these people do deserve, these people do deserve to be mocked!
KARL: Well, no, no — Gaza. I’m talking about Gaza —
COTTON: On college campuses.
KARL: We had the World Food Problem has just now said that there’s an outright famine in parts of Gaza. Tens of thousands of people have died. You’re using the phrase, “Little Gazas” —
COTTON: Which is 100% the fault of Hamas. Just like every civilian casualty in Gaza is 100% the fault of Hamas. Yet, Joe Biden, for seven months, has leaned on Israel, has pressured Benjamin Netanyahu, has told them to stand down when they get attacked by Iran, has said that they can’t go into the last hold out where Hamas has its final terrorist battalions. But, no. These student on college campuses? They deserve our contempt, they also deserve our mockery. I mean, they’re out there in their N95 masks in the open air, with their gluten allergies, demanding that Uber Eats get delivered to them.
Watch the clip above via ABC News.
