The Biden administration on Sunday blasted recent anti-Israel protests that have been taking place at Columbia University, as Jewish groups on campus reacted to a message sent by the university’s Orthodox rabbi to Jewish students urging them to stay away from campus until it is deemed safe again.
In a statement marking the upcoming Passover holiday, US President Joe Biden slammed “harassment and calls for violence against Jews” amid intensified anti-Israel protests at the New York City university over the past week as “blatant antisemitism.”
Pro-Palestinian protesters have rallied regularly at Columbia since war in Gaza erupted with Hamas’s October 7 massacre, but demonstrations ramped up in the past week after the university asked the NYPD to help dismantle a pro-Palestinian encampment.
“Even in recent days, we’ve seen harassment and calls for violence against Jews. This blatant antisemitism is reprehensible and dangerous – and it has absolutely no place on college campuses or anywhere in our country,” Biden said in the Passover statement. “The ancient story of persecution against Jews in the Haggadah also reminds us that we must speak out against the alarming surge of antisemitism – in our schools, communities and online. Silence is complicity.”
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