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Erum Salam and Joanna Walters in New York, Chris Stein in Washington, Coral Murphy Marcos in Berkeley and agencies

Student Gaza protests: top Republicans call on Biden to send in federal officers

line of protesters in front of line of police wearing helmets in the dark
Pro-Palestinian students and activists face police officers as they protest the Israel-Gaza war on the campus of New York University on Monday. Photograph: Alex Kent/AFP/Getty Images

Senior Republican US senators on Tuesday waded into growing tensions at leading universities over the Israel-Gaza war, demanding the Biden administration send in federal law enforcement officers to curb pro-Palestinian protests that have led to hundreds of arrests.

Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader, and John Thune, his deputy, wrote to Merrick Garland, the US attorney general, and Miguel Cardona, the education secretary, calling demonstrators “antisemitic, pro-terrorist mobs”.

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