'Outrageous': Pro-Palestine activists slam Biden for labelling protest 'antisemitic'

Pro-Palestine activists have slammed US President Joe Biden's administration for "mischaracterising" a protest outside a California synagogue where real estate firms are accused of advertising properties for sale in the occupied West Bank.

The demonstration occurred outside the Adas Torah temple, an Orthodox synagogue near Beverly Hills in Los Angeles. Protesters wearing keffiyehs and waving Palestinian flags gathered outside the synagogue after seeing an advertisement that promoted residential homes for sale in "the best Anglo neighbourhoods in Israel".

Biden waded into the protest on Monday, saying on X he was "appalled by the scenes outside of Adas Torah… Intimidating Jewish congregants is dangerous, unconscionable, antisemitic and un-American".

Anti-war group CodePink, which organises pro-Palestine protests, slammed Biden for alleging that the demonstration was antisemitic.

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