Peter Nicholas is a senior national political reporter for NBC News.
WASHINGTON — Joe Biden’s advisers believe that tensions over U.S. support for Israel in the war in Gaza spreading through college campuses will soon flame out and that there is neither a need nor an upside for the president to weigh in more directly.
He supports peaceful protests consistent with the First Amendment, but not demonstrations that result in vandalism, trespassing and other crimes. Like the protesters, Biden believes that Israel has inflicted too much carnage in Gaza. Unlike some of them, he defends Israel’s sovereignty and recoils at the notion of Jews losing a homeland. Alan Kessler, a Democratic fundraiser who is Jewish, said he attended a speech in recent months in which Biden spoke up for Israel.
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