Rep. Lauren Boebert’s try to have interaction with pro-Palestinian protesters at George Washington College on Wednesday did not go very properly.
The Colorado Republican was hit with chants of “Beetlejuice” when she arrived on campus. This was probably a reference to an incident in September when Boebert received kicked out of the “Beetlejuice” musical after she and her date had been seen fondling one another.
Boebert visited the faculty campus together with her fellow GOP politicians, James Comer, Byron Donalds, and Anna Paulina Luna.
However the hostile reception did not deter Boebert from making her stance identified to protesters.
“That is America, and that shit wants to return down,” Boebert advised protesters as she tried to take away a Palestinian flag that was draped over a statue of George Washington.
“It isn’t your property,” a person advised Boebert.
Boebert later threatened to chop the college’s funding if the protesters weren’t stopped.
“If they do not need to do one thing to handle this? Properly, then kiss your federal funding goodbye,” Boebert stated whereas utilizing a loudhailer.
Boebert is not the one GOP politician who has tangled with pro-Palestinian protesters on American school campuses.
Home Speaker Mike Johnson was booed and heckled by college students when he visited Columbia College final month. Johnson referred to as for the resignation of the college’s president, Minouche Shafik, after the Ivy League establishment was rocked by protests over Israel’s warfare in Gaza.
On Tuesday night, officers from the New York Police Division entered the college in riot gear and detained dozens of protesters.
Johnson’s and Boebert’s calls to crack down on protesters expose a rising rift between the GOP and American schools over their dealing with of protests on campus.
Final month, the Home of Representatives authorized $26.38 billion in help to Israel. The invoice was handed by a 366-58 margin, with 37 Democrats and 21 Republicans voting in opposition to the invoice.
“The rise of antisemitism in America and particularly on school campuses is abhorrent and disgusting,” Boebert wrote in an X publish on Wednesday.
Representatives for Boebert didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark from BI despatched outdoors common enterprise hours.
