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Columbia protesters’ building takeover is ‘wrong approach’: White House

Columbia suspends students after call to end Gaza camp unheeded
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US President Joe Biden opposes the seizure of a Columbia University campus building by pro-Palestinian protesters, the White House said Tuesday as demonstrations raged at colleges across the country.

“The president believes that forcibly taking over a building on campus is absolutely the wrong approach,” National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told an online briefing.

 

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