Republican Rep. Cheers Students’ Racist Response to Gaza Protester

A Republican representative on Friday appeared to applaud racist taunting against a pro-Palestine protest at the University of Mississippi.

A group of students organized a protest against Israel’s war in Gaza at Ole Miss, as the university is commonly called, on Thursday. The group was calling for the school to divest from companies aligned with Israel and the university had approved the protest.  Protesters, though, were met—and reportedly outnumbered—by counterprotesters who jeered and laughed at them...