https://nypost.com/2024/04/30/us-news/white-house-condemns-columbia-building-takeover-as-not-peaceful-calls-intifada-banner-hate-speech/
White House condemns Columbia building
takeover as ‘not peaceful,’ calls
‘intifada’ banner ‘hate speech’
New York Post, by Steven Nelson
Posted By: Dreadnought, 4/30/2024 3:00:31 PM
WASHINGTON — The White House on Tuesday denounced the overnight takeover of a Columbia University building by anti-Israel protesters — calling it “not peaceful” and saying President Biden “condemns” the use of the word “intifada,” which a two-story banner at the site now reads. Dozens of masked protesters stormed Hamilton Hall under the cover of darkness after at least one of them used a hammer to break a window of the academic building, which was named after Founding Father Alexander Hamilton — and previously famously seized by student protesters during a 1968 anti-Vietnam War showdown. “President Biden has stood against repugnant, Antisemitic smears and violent rhetoric his entire life,”