“The View” co-host Sunny Hostin on Monday criticized the police response to nationwide college protests over the war in Gaza.
“I think we need to shift the framing of these college protests,” Hostin said. “I think it's very distressing that we are framing these as pro-Palestinian protests, or pro-Israeli protests. These are anti-war protests.”
Hostin compared current nationwide protests on college campuses over the war in Gaza to historical student protests against the Vietnam War and apartheid in South Africa.
“College campuses have been the place for antiwar protests for as far as I can remember,” Hostin said. “I think recent protests haven't even reached the scale of the major student protests that we saw in the late 1960s against the Vietnam War, or even the 1980s against South Africa's practice of apartheid.”
Student protests erupted on college campuses nationwide last week after New York City police arrested protesters at Columbia University during a pro-Palestinian campus occupation that calls for the university to divest from funds they say are helping fund Israel's war in Gaza. Police have at times violently arrested protesters at campus protests, such as at the University of Texas at Austin.
