WASHINGTON — Joe Biden’s advisers believe that tensions over U.S. support for Israel in the war in Gaza spreading through college campuses will soon flame out and that there is neither a need nor an upside for him to weigh in more directly.

Former President Trump condemned violent anti-Israel protests erupting on college campuses, saying “weak and ineffective leadership" must be “replaced."

Talks have broken down with student protesters on campus as a deadline passed to vacate encampments over Israel's occupation of Gaza and the university's investments in Israeli-backed financial institutions.

A huge mob of masked anti-Israel protesters broke into an academic building at Columbia University and seized it early Tuesday – hours after the school finally began suspending students who refused to vacate the tent encampment that brought campus life to a halt.

Talks between pro-Palestinian student protesters and Columbia University officials have broken down, according to an update on Monday from the university’s president. Administrators have negotiated with demonstrators for much of the last week as protests roiled the campus as they demanded that the college divest from Israel.

President Minouche Shafik said negotiations had broken down and that the university would not divest from Israel.

Columbia University has taken action against pro-Palestinian activists who refused to dismantle a protest camp on campus following failed negotiations. President Nemat Minouche Shafik confirmed that talks aimed at persuading demonstrators to remove tents expressing opposition to Israel’s actions in Gaza had reached an impasse.