米大学の親パレスチナデモ「とてつもない増悪」 トランプ氏

【ニューヨークＡＦＰ＝時事】ドナルド・トランプ前米大統領は２５日、同国各地の大学で続く親パレスチナデモでの「憎悪（ヘイト）」は、２０１７年に東部バージニア州シャーロッツビルで開かれた白人至上主義団体による集会よりもはるかにひどいとの認識を示した。（写真は、車が人混みに突っ込んだ現場で、応急手当を受ける人たち。米バージニア州シャーロッツビルにて）
　不倫問題の口止め料をめぐる事件の裁判でニューヨーク・マンハッタン地区の裁判所を訪れていたトランプ氏は、「至る所で抗議活動が行われている」「シャーロッツビル（の集会）は取るに足らない出来事だった。今回の抗議活動の比ではない。憎悪の点でもそうだ。今回のものはとてつもない憎悪だ」と記者団に語った。
　２０１７年にシャーロッツビルで開かれた集会「ユナイト・ザ・ライト」には、全米各地から白人至上主義者が集結した。集会は、白人至上主義者の一人がカウンターデモ隊に車で突っ込み、女性１人を殺害、１９人を負傷させる結末となった。
　トランプ氏はシャーロッツビルでの衝突を非難するまでに４８時間を要しただけでなく、「とても立派な人物が双方にいる」と述べたことで広く批判された。
　親パレスチナデモをめぐるトランプ氏のコメントを受け、１１月の大統領選で対戦するジョー・バイデン大統領の選挙陣営は同日、シャーロッツビルの集会の動画を投稿。そこにはトーチを掲げて「ユダヤ人がわれわれに取って代わることはない！」とシュプレヒコールを上げるネオナチや白人至上主義団体「クー・クラックス・クラン（ＫＫＫ）」のメンバーの姿が映っていた。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2024/04/26-18:47）

Donald Trump on Thursday condemned pro-Palestinian protests sweeping US colleges, saying the level of hate on display was far worse than during an infamous, deadly rally by right-wing extremists in Charlottesville in 2017.
We're having protests all over, Trump told reporters as he left the Manhattan courtroom where he is standing trial on charges of falsifying business records.
Charlottesville was a little peanut, and it was nothing compared -- and the hate wasn't the kind of hate that you have here, this is tremendous hate, he said.
The Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, brought torch-bearing white nationalists together from all over the country.
It culminated in an avowed white supremacist driving a car into a crowd of counter-protesters, killing one woman and injuring 19 other people.
President Joe Biden's reelection campaign responded to Trump's comments Thursday by posting video footage from the Charlottesville rally, showing torch-wielding neo-Nazis and KKK members chanting Jews will not replace us!
Trump infamously took 48 hours to respond to the violence, and then only said there were very fine people on both sides of the protests, drawing widespread criticism.
Biden has often told the story of how he came out of retirement to run for president in 2020 after Trump refused to clearly denounce the rally at Charlottesville.
During their first debate, in September of that year, Trump infuriated many Americans by once again declining to denounce white supremacist groups.
Instead, speaking out to the right-wing nationalist group called the Proud Boys, he told them to stand back and stand by.
The group celebrated its mention by the president by adopting those words as part of a new logo -- underscoring fears that white supremacists were taking tacit encouragement from Trump's failure to unequivocally condemn their ideology.
Two days later, under pressure to explain himself, Trump said he did in fact condemn all white supremacists.
Trump spoke Thursday as pro-Palestinian protests spread to more college campuses in the United States. Students are staging occupations over the growing human toll of Israel's war with Hamas.
Hundreds have been arrested so far as universities and police crack down.
Biden, who has made clear his support for Israel even as he urges its leader to allow greater access to aid for Palestinians, has backed the students' right to free speech.