Student anger Biden's BLM moment?

There's a feeling this has been seen before.

In the middle of the US election year in 2020 when Donald Trump was president, the Black Lives Matter movement broke out in major American cities. In the vote later that year, Trump lost to Joe Biden of the Democrats.

Four years later in the middle of this election year,a wave of pro-Palestinian protests is sweeping across American universities.

The big question is: will history repeat itself to spell defeat for Biden in the November 5 vote?

Things don't bode well for him.

Unlike the BLM protests that quickly erupted into rioters burning cars and looting shops, the pro-Palestinian protests on the street and in universities have so far been largely peaceful. There have been ugly scenes but these were rather occasional than the norm.

In 2020, Trump was BLM's target and the flare-up of hostilities is believed to have helped get opposition votes in the ballot boxes.

An active organizer of the pro-Palestinian protests was interviewed by NBC News a month ago. Nerdeen Kiswani, a law graduate and founder of Within Our Lifetime, made known her distaste of Biden as she spoke to the TV network.

"At least with Trump, we know what we're dealing with. We know that he's been anti-Palestinian. With Biden, you know, he literally can kill 30,000 of us and still pretend that he's a friend."

Her remarks may well mirror the feelings of those participating in pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel protests since Israel bombarded Gaza in retaliation to Hamas' carnage on Israeli settlements and concert goers on October 7.

The terrorist group is still holding a number of Israelis and other nationals hostage, refusing to release them.

Perhaps, as Kiswani and others exercise their precious right to free speech to mobilize thousands to protest against Israel's invasion, they should devote equal efforts to demand that Hamas leaders free the hostages and stop hiding behind innocent Palestinian civilians in hospitals and refugee camps.

The NBC News investigation also revealed links - either direct or indirect - between protest organizers and some well-known billionaires.

The program also claimed some leaders of the pro-Palestinian movement worked with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

Following the October 7 outrage, the PFLP's military wing asserted it had participated in the attack.

The current spate of protests are taking place at many leading universities, including Columbia University in New York, University of Texas in Austin, University of Southern California in Los Angeles, Yale, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, UC Berkeley, the University of Michigan, Brown and Harvard.

Many students have been arrested and it comes as no surprise to discover that more were arrested at universities in blue states than those in their red neighbors.

If the BLM movement in 2020 was meant to back Biden's bid against Trump, the pro-Palestinian protest organizers may be trying to leverage on the presidential vote to put pressure on Biden to walk away from Israel knowing that Jewish Americans have been highly influential in the capital.