President Joe Biden on Monday condemned an anti-Semitic incident at a Los Angeles synagogue over the weekend.
Videos on social media showed fighting between anti-Semitic pro-Palestinian demonstrators and counterprotesters on June 23 outside the Adas Torah synagogue in the heavily Jewish Pico-Robertson neighborhood. Police were called in to break it up.
“I’m appalled by the scenes outside of Adas Torah synagogue in Los Angeles. Intimidating Jewish congregants is dangerous, unconscionable, antisemitic, and un-American,” posted President Biden on X, on June 24.
“Americans have a right to peaceful protest. But blocking access to a house of worship—and engaging in violence—is never acceptable,” he wrote….