The meeting is meant to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day but it will also address the wave of campus protests.
Doug Emhoff is one of the most prominent Jews in the country and has served as the de facto leader for the Biden administration on combating the rise of antisemitism across the country. | Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesSecond gentleman Doug Emhoff on Monday will host a half-dozen Jewish students from colleges around the country amid a wave of pro-Palestinian campus protests criticized for featuring antisemitic behavior.
The event is another illustration of the administration’s efforts to more forcefully insert itself into a campus protest storyline that it has, for the most part, kept its distance from. It also underscores the central role that Emhoff is now playing in crafting the White House response. The half dozen students attending hail from Lehigh University, Bryn Mawr College, Washington University in St. Louis, University of Southern California, The United States Military Academy at West Point, and Muhlenberg College. The White House official said that in addition to meeting students, Emhoff will also be meeting with Holocaust survivors, including Tova Friedman, an 86-year-old survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
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