President Joe Biden denounced campus violence in a speech from the White House but rejected calls to change his Middle East policy or bring in the National Guard to restore order.

“Peaceful protest is in the best tradition of how Americans respond to consequential issues,” he said from the Roosevelt Room. “But neither are we a lawless country. We are a civil society, and order must prevail.”

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