Pro-Palestinian protests at USC, Columbia University, college campuses nationwide

Second gentleman Doug Emhoff spoke with a pair of Jewish leaders at Columbia University and Barnard College this week, a White House official said, condemning antisemitism and calls for violence against Jews amid ongoing protests on and around campus.In calls with Rabbi Elie Buechler, director of the Orthodox Union-JLIC at Columbia and Barnard, and Brian Cohen, Levine Family executive director at Columbia/Barnard Hillel, Emhoff “recognized that while every American has the right to freedom of speech and to protest peacefully, hate speech and calls for violence against Jews is both…