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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a video connection Wednesday saying "what’s happening successful America’s assemblage campuses is horrific."
"Antisemitic mobs person taken complete starring universities. They telephone for nan annihilation of Israel. They onslaught Jewish students. They onslaught Jewish faculty," he said. "This is reminiscent of what happened successful German universities successful nan 1930s. It’s unconscionable. It has to beryllium stopped. It has to beryllium condemned and condemned unequivocally. But that’s not what happened. The consequence of respective assemblage presidents was shameful."
Netanyahu said arsenic American assemblage students are continuing to clasp anti-Israel demonstrations Wednesday astir nan nation.
"Now, fortunately, state, local, national officials, galore of them person responded otherwise but location has to beryllium more. More has to beryllium done. It has to beryllium done not only because they onslaught Israel, that’s bad enough, not only because they want to termination Jews wherever they are, that’s bad enough, it’s besides erstwhile you perceive to them, it’s besides because they opportunity not only, "Death to Israel. Death to nan Jews," but "death to America,’" Netanyahu said. "And this tells america that location is an antisemitic surge present that has unspeakable consequences.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has released a video connection Wednesday slamming nan ongoing anti-Israel protests astatine American assemblage campuses. (Office of Israel's Prime Minister)
The Israeli premier curate besides said he is seeing an "exponential emergence of antisemitism passim America and passim Western societies arsenic Israel tries to take sides itself against genocidal terrorists, genocidal terrorists who hide down civilians."
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Hundreds of anti-Israel agitators shape a objection extracurricular of NYU’s Stern School of Business successful Manhattan, New York connected Monday, April 22. (Julia Bonavita/Fox News Digital)
"Yet it is Israel that is falsely accused of genocide, Israel that is falsely accused of starvation and each sundry warfare crimes. It’s each 1 large libel," he added. "But that’s not new."
Police officers guidelines by during protests astatine Columbia University connected April 22 successful New York City. (David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)
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He concluded his connection by saying "So I inquire each of you, Jews and non-Jews alike, who are concerned pinch our communal early and our communal values to do 1 thing: guidelines up, speak up, beryllium counted. Stop antisemitism now."
Fox News’ Yonat Friling contributed to this report.
Greg Norman is simply a newsman astatine Fox News Digital.
