US State Dept pressed on Netanyahu's calls for US crackdown on student protests

US State Department Deputy Spokesperson Vedant Patel was pressed on his reaction to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calling for the crackdown on American student protests on university and college campuses, describing them as 'anti-Semitic mobs'. 'Do you reject the interference of a foreign leader calling for the crackdown on full American citizens exercising their basic rights to demonstrate?' Washington Bureau Chief of the Al-Quds Daily Newspaper Said Arikat asked Patel, who refused to ragard Netanyahu's comments as interference in American affairs.