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What condemnations were you concerned with? Most of her statements seem to have been generally non-committal on policy but supportive of protest. The only big negative statement I'm aware of recently was about the protest with "Hamas is coming" graffiti. Which like, yeah, that's something that a politician should condemn. I feel kind of weird about her saying burning flags is super wrong, but I'm not that bothered by it.
Her statement on the protests frames them as pro-Hamas, anti-Semitic, unpatriotic, and violent by focusing entirely on a few bad-faith actors. Spending the entire statement condemning the minority of protestors and saying nothing of the majority who were there simply to protest genocide is disingenuous.
To take a page out of her book,
The condemnation of Hamas and anti-Semitism isn't the issue, it's the context in which it is done, absent of support for the protest as a whole. The best we get is
As a qualifier at the end of the statement. If she were truly committed to justice for Palestinians she would have pushed back against the framing of those who defend them as anti-semitic and pro-Hamas.
It isn't so much what she said, but what she didn't.
But like, the graffiti was pro-Hamas. I'm down with fighting the good fight to not cede pro-liberation slogans like "from the river to the sea" as antisemitic, but I think actively trying to bring Hamas itself into the protests is bad. And she's been, maybe not supportive, but understanding, previously.
https://truthout.org/articles/harris-says-she-understands-gaza-protesters-as-biden-question-lingers/
It's not like she's going to don a keffiyah and join the protests, but that's a fair sight better than Biden has been and at least a potential starting point for dialogue.