White House Blasts ‘Antisemitic’ and ‘Dangerous’ College Protests

The White House on Sunday addressed the growing chaos surrounding dueling pro-Israel and pro-Palestine demonstrations at colleges across the U.S the campus–including Columbia University–with a spokesperson saying calls of violence against Jewish students is “blatantly antisemitic, unconscionable, and dangerous.”

That statement, shared with The Daily Beast by White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates, emphasized that every American has the right to peacefully protest, but has no right to call for “violence and physical intimidation targeting Jewish students.”

Those actions, Bates added, have “absolutely no place on any college campus, or anywhere in the United States of America.”

Read more at The Daily Beast.