Students confront Chelsea Clinton over 'anti-immigrant trope'

Two students at New York University confronted former US President Bill Clinton's daughter Chelsea at a vigil organised in honour of the victims of New Zealand's gruesome terror attacks which claimed the lives of 50 people.Students Leen Dweik and Rose Asaf took offence to Clinton's reactionary tweet to Democrat Ilhan Omar's comments regarding Israel, which many have perceived to be anti-semitic in nature.In her tweet, Clinton "co-signed as an American". "We should expect all elected officials, regardless of party, and all public figures to not traffic in anti-Semitism," she tweeted.Taking particular offence to the "as an American" part of Clinton's statement, Asaf told the Washington Post, "She was the one who made this a story...To me, when speaking of someone who is a refugee, it's a dog whistle, it's signalling this is a patriotic issue and that nationalism excludes people like Ilhan Omar," adding that by using "as an American," Clinton put forth an "anti-immigrant trope."Omar is ..