President Biden delivered the commencement speech at Morehouse College in Atlanta on Sunday, marking his first appearance at a college amid the unrest and anti-Israel protests being stirred on campuses across the country.
Biden addressed the Israel-Hamas war head-on, giving a nod to pro-Palestinian sentiment among Morehouse students and faculty.
“I support peaceful nonviolent protest,” he told students at the historic Black, all-male college, some of whom wore keffiyehs, or Palestinian scarves, around their shoulders on top of their black graduation gowns. “Your voices should be heard, and I promise you I hear them.”
Biden told graduates he is pushing for an “immediate ceasefire to stop the fighting and bring the hostages home.”
So far, the president has limited his public comments on the college campus protests, saying he upholds the right to peaceful protest.
Meanwhile, lawmakers in Washington D.C. are working to protect Jewish students who have come face to face with violent protesters.
The House passed a bill this month that would redefine anti-Semitism under federal law.
If approved by the Senate, the measure would expand the definition to include the “targeting of the state of Israel, conceived as a Jewish collectivity.”
Supporters say it would provide a reliable framework
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