The White House condemned the pro-Palestine protest outside the Nova exhibition in New York, which honors the victims of the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7.
In a statement released Tuesday, White House spokesman Andrew Bates called the demonstrations “horrible behavior.”
“Yesterday’s events at the memorial for those murdered at the Nova music festival are outrageous and heartbreaking,” Bates said.
“Unholy flags of terrorist organizations should not fly anywhere, especially on American streets. Anti-Semitism has no place in the United States. This horrific behavior is all the more reason for ‘Americans to stand united against anti-Semitism and hate in all its forms,’ as President Biden urgently called for at the Holocaust Memorial Museum last month,” he added.
Protests took place on Monday night; a large crowd gathered outside the exhibition, where they lit flares and chanted “long live the intifada,” CBS reported. New York Mayor Eric Adams said on Tuesday that he was “extremely concerned” about the protesters, adding: “you cannot call for peace while celebrating what happened on October 7th,” The Jerusalem Post reported.
The White House has condemned anti-Semitism seen at protests across the US, including as Biden noted that some protests on college campuses in May crossed the line into anti-Semitism.
During remarks at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s annual Days of Remembrance in May, he called on Americans who are “ignoring” the events of the Holocaust and the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel to stop.
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