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White House defends Biden's silence on campus chaos
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre deflected questions Wednesday about President Biden’s steadfast refusal to speak about the anti-Israel protests that have roiled college campuses for over a week.
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House to vote on antisemitism bill as Johnson highlights campus protests
The House is expected to vote Wednesday on the bipartisan Antisemitism Awareness Act, a vote that comes amid heightened concerns over antisemitism with Israel at war with Hamas and as pro-Palestinian protests have sprung up on college campuses across the country. Supporters of the legislation say it will help combat antisemitism on college campuses, but opponents say it overreaches and threatens to chill free speech. The bill would mandate that when the Department of Education enforces federal...
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White House bobs and weaves through questions on Gaza campus protests
The White House danced around questions Tuesday regarding the string of pro-Palestinian protests taking place on college campuses across the country, condemning displays of antisemitism from some protesters while also declining to say if President Joe Biden planned any type of interaction with the activists. Students began camping out on the green at Columbia University […]