Pro-Palestinian protesters boo Biden during Michigan visit

Advocates and legislators have called on US president to take a harder line against Israel amid deadly escalation in Gaza.

United States President Joe Biden’s visit to an electric vehicle plant in Michigan has been met with boos as hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters rallied to condemn his administration’s stance on Israel’s ongoing bombardment of the Gaza Strip. Biden was also criticised on Tuesday for joking about running over a reporter who seemingly wanted to ask about the violence during a trip to the Ford Motor Company facility in Dearborn, a city at the heart of Michigan’s large Arab-American community. As Biden pulled up in front of journalists while test driving a Ford electric truck, a reporter asked if she could make a question about Israel.