CNN’s Dana Bash Highlights Biden Made Absolutely Clear College Protests Will Have No Impact on Israel Policy

CNN held a panel discussion following President Joe Biden’s statement on the pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses that have turned violent in recent days, with Dana Bash highlighting one specific message from Biden.

As the conversation wound down, Bash jumped back in to highlight “one thing.”

“When the president walked out of the room, he was asked two questions. One of which, as you said, was should the National Guard be deployed? He said, ‘No.’ The other was a question about whether he will change his policies. He also said, ‘No.’ That, should not get lost in this,” Bash said, adding:

Because the people who are protesting peacefully, doing everything right on these campuses and elsewhere, what they are saying that they want is for the president to change his policies because of the way that the Netanyahu government is acting, whether they’re prosecuting the war and so forth. They want to divest from Israel. They want at the U.S. to stop funding, or at least helping with the weaponry that Israel had. He said one word, ‘No.’ He’s not going to change any of that.

“Yeah. One of the other things a lot of these protesters are calling for, of course, is also that universities divest all money from companies that do business in Israel or military companies such as Boeing,” added Jake Tapper, noting another demand of the protestors that will remain unmet.

Watch the clip above via CNN.