Rubio: There Aren’t ‘Pro-Palestinian’ Protests, They’re ‘Pro-Hamas’ and Only Started After Hamas Killed Civilians

On Monday’s “Sean Hannity Show,” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) stated that the “pro-Palestinian” demonstrations aren’t really pro-Palestinian and are really in favor of Hamas, because they only started after “Hamas came across and slaughtered a bunch of Jews in Israel, innocent people.”

Rubio said, “Well, Sean, I think it’s an unmasking of what’s happened in higher education in particular. Also, I think places like TikTok have become cesspools of this kind of misinformation and indoctrination. It’s actually brainwashing. It’s reflected in the polling, where Americans under a certain age, under 35, I think, or what have you, are amazingly pro-Palestinian — pro-Hamas in their views of what’s happening in the region. And these things don’t happen in a vacuum. It’s a constant bombardment of information, anti-colonial messaging, and all this other ridiculousness. That’s sort of made its way and this is what we’ve paid for. And I think the most shocking part about it is, you go out there and you see some of these people that stand for every liberal cause you can imagine…none of those rights exist in the places that they’re defending, so that’s number one. They’ll obviously say, we’re not pro-Hamas, we’re just pro-Palestinian. But none of these demonstrations were happening — think about it, what was the catalyst for these demonstrations? [It] was Hamas came across and slaughtered a bunch of Jews in Israel, innocent people. And that’s what this — and they didn’t start protesting once the bombardment started, they came out almost immediately as a counter-reaction. So, that’s very disturbing.”

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