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President Biden issued a proclamation to people nan National Day of Prayer successful which he urges practice and decorum amid ongoing disruption and unit connected assemblage campuses nationwide.
The proclamation was released connected Wednesday up of nan National Day of Prayer connected May 2.
"Scripture tells america to rejoice successful hope, beryllium diligent successful tribulation, and beryllium changeless successful prayer," Biden wrote successful nan proclamation. "This year, my dream for our Nation is that we support religion that our champion days are up of america and proceed to judge successful honesty, decency, dignity, and respect."
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President Joe Biden speaks during a run arena astatine nan Martin Luther King Recreation Center successful Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Hannah Beier/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
"May we spot each different not arsenic enemies but arsenic chap quality beings, each made successful nan image of God and each precious successful His sight," he continued. "May we time off nary 1 behind, springiness everyone a adjacent shot, and springiness dislike nary safe harbor. May we retrieve that thing is beyond our capacity if we enactment together."
Biden's connection of bid and nonviolence comes arsenic U.S. colleges crossed nan state descend into chaos amid student protesters demanding full divestment from Israel and more.
Students astatine Columbia University successful New York City barricaded themselves wrong a field building aft weeks of protest, yet necessitating a ambush by nan NYPD connected Tuesday night.
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Cops face-off pinch pro-Palestinian students aft destroying portion of nan encampment barricade connected nan field of nan University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) successful Los Angeles, California. (Etienne Laurent/AFP/Getty)
Campus disruptions are still ongoing astatine nan University of California Los Angeles, Tulane, Portland State University and elsewhere.
On nan National Day of Prayer itself, Biden explicitly addressed nan business and condemned nan actions of students starring to "disorder."
"Vandalism, trespassing, breaking windows, shutting down campus, forcing nan cancellation of classes and graduations — nary of this is simply a serene protest," Biden said Thursday. "Threatening people, intimidating people, instilling fearfulness successful group is not a serene protest. It's against nan law. Dissent is basal to democracy, but dissent must ne'er lead to disorder."
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NYPD officers apprehension students astatine Columbia University successful New York City. (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images)
White House Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates antecedently said connected Apr. 30 that Biden condemns "antisemitic" and "dangerous" aspects of nan demonstrations.
"President Biden has stood against repugnant, antisemitic smears and convulsive rhetoric his full life. He condemns nan usage of nan word 'intifada,' arsenic he has nan different tragic and vulnerable dislike reside displayed successful caller days," Bates said. "President Biden respects nan correct to free expression, but protests must beryllium serene and lawful. Forcibly taking complete buildings is not serene — it is wrong. And dislike reside and dislike symbols person nary spot successful America."Fox News Digital has reached retired to nan White House for comment.
Timothy Nerozzi is simply a writer for Fox News Digital. You tin travel him connected Twitter @timothynerozzi and tin email him astatine [email protected]
