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As anti-Israel agitators successfully held a days-long "encampment" astatine Columbia University successful New York City, students astatine different elite schools crossed nan United States began carrying retired their ain marches and sit-ins.
While some Democrats person attempted to picture these protests arsenic "mostly peaceful," participants often repetition hateful and antisemitic chants that telephone for nan decease of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and others who support Israel.
"We are Hamas!" nan participants were heard shouting, referring to nan panic group that launched nan deadliest panic onslaught successful Israel’s history. "Netanyahu, Netanyahu... you can't hide. We complaint you pinch genocide." The aforesaid chant has been echoed pinch President Biden’s name.
The nationwide activity continues to summation momentum and has dispersed to different schools. Similar anti-Israel demonstrations person been witnessed astatine Columbia, Yale, MIT, UC Berkeley, University of Southern California, Princeton, Harvard, Stanford, Northwestern University, Vanderbilt University, University of Michigan, University of North Carolina, University of Virginia and others.
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For a week, anti-Israeli students occupied a cardinal section connected nan Columbia University field successful New York City. "We are Hamas!" immoderate of nan students shouted. (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)
Participants astatine Columbia and different schools person been heard shouting:
"No much money for Israel's crimes."
"We will free Palestine wrong our lifetime."
"Say it large and opportunity it clear... liberation is here."
"Free, Free Palestine."
"From nan oversea to nan river, Palestine will unrecorded forever."
"Columbia, you will see, each our group will beryllium free."
"It is correct to rebel... NYPD tin spell to hell."
"It is correct to rebel... Israel tin spell to hell."
"Intifada revolution...There is only 1 solution!"
The demonstrations astatine Columbia, seen arsenic the epicenter of nan existent movement, became truthful tense that Columbia President Minouche Shafik alerted students that each in-person classes would beryllium held virtually done nan extremity of nan semester.
Shafik and schoolhouse officials are negotiating pinch nan anti-Israel group to clear nan field and guarantee members of nan objection are really Columbia students.
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These students and those astatine different elite colleges person demanded their respective schools extremity doing business pinch Israel aliases nan U.S. Defense Department, which gives money to nan Jewish country. The circumstantial demands alteration from field to field but mostly include: nan schoolhouse extremity doing business pinch subject weapons manufacturers that are supplying arms to Israel, aliases extremity investing assemblage endowment costs pinch money managers who profit from Israeli companies aliases contractors.
Anti-Israeli activists protestation extracurricular Columbia University successful New York City connected April 20, 2024. Students location and astatine different elite colleges person demanded their respective schools extremity doing business pinch Israel. (Leonardo Munoz/AFP via Getty Images)
Anti-Israeli students formed a "Gaza Solidarity Encampment" and participated successful hateful chants aft wide arrests by nan New York Police Department connected April 19, 2024. (Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Holocaust subsister Tova Friedman told "Fox & Friends" Tuesday that she was "scared" for America complete nan "hatred" spewed by specified mobs.
"It's for illustration a cancer. If you don't extremity it early, it metastasizes. It's going to termination nan body. It's sidesplitting our country," she told Fox News connected Tuesday.
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She added: "When I came to America astatine 11 and a half, it's for illustration I came to nan Promised Land, and it was conscionable a fabulous experience. And present it is today. I americium shocked, I americium pained, I'm scared. I'm frightened some for America, I'm frightened for nan Jews, and it's very achy for our young people."
Holocaust subsister Tova Friedman told "Fox & Friends" Tuesday that she was "scared" for America complete nan "hatred" spewed by nan mobs. (Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images)
Friedman besides grimly predicted what demonstrations for illustration this could go if schoolhouse administrators let them to grow.
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"If this isn't contained, if they don't deliberation astir it, what is going to beryllium nan extremity product? What is nan extremity merchandise of immoderate hatred and prejudice? It is decease to somebody. It could beryllium decease to themselves, decease to their opponents. Because we didn't extremity Hitler for illustration we had a chance during Kristallnacht. We could person stopped it, but cipher did. So I ended up successful Auschwitz, and a cardinal and a half of Jewish children were gassed," she said.
"That type of behaviour and anger and hatred tin only extremity up successful tragedy," she said. "Tragedy for everybody. Not only calamity for nan Jews, God forbid calamity for themselves, because it's going to beryllium a unspeakable clash. We person to find a measurement to extremity it."
Franklin Graham, nan Christian evangelist and boy of nan precocious Billy Graham, echoed those aforesaid sentiments connected societal media.
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"I agree," he wrote successful a station connected Facebook. "When Tova walked retired of Auschwitz arsenic a small girl, she thought she would ne'er acquisition nan dislike of antisemitism for illustration that again. But present it is, correct successful our faces. The world needs to aftermath up to nan dangers of this fishy hate. Tova is correct – it’s for illustration a cancer, if you don’t extremity it early, it’s going to kill."
During nan ongoing negotiations precocious Tuesday evening pinch Columbia administrators, students said they would extremity utilizing hateful connection successful their chants. The students are protesting Israel's warfare pinch Hamas successful Gaza, which has reportedly near tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians dead.
Fox News’ Taylor Penley contributed to this report.
