Trump calls campus pro-Palestine protests a ‘disgrace’ as Jewish leaders warn students to stay home

Donald Trump has branded the pro-Palestine protests sweeping college campuses across the US a “disgrace” as Jewish students are warned to stay home and the Columbia president faces calls to resign.

The former president waded in on the drama as he headed into court for day six of his hush money trial in Manhattan.

Speaking to reporters outside the court, he blamed the escalating protests across college campuses on President Joe Biden, claiming he has been putting out the “wrong signal” on Israel’s ongoing conflict in Gaza.

“He has the wrong tone. He’s got the wrong words. He doesn’t know who he’s backing. And it’s a mess,” Mr Trump told reporters outside the court.

He continued: “The signals he puts out are so bad. And I can tell you he’s no friend of Israel, that’s for sure, and he’s no friend of the Arab world.”

Once again, Mr Trump compared what he said was a large police presence keeping his supporters away from the court in Lower Manhattan to his perceived lack of law enforcement presence as protests have grown tense at nearby Columbia University and New York University in New York.

“We have more police presence here than anyone’s ever seen, for blocks you can’t get near this courthouse,” he said.

“And yet you have nobody up in a college, where you have very radical people wanting to rip the colleges down, the universities down. And that’s a shame.”

There have been multiple reports of police, including riot squads, in attendance outside colleges in recent days, with many officers cordoning off areas around campuses.

Over 100 arrests were made at Columbia University, over 150 at NYU, not to mention dozens at Yale University in Connecticut.

At NYU, leaders requested the New York Police Department’s presence to deal