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A group of pro-Palestinian students targeted the Hillel, the Jewish student center, in a rally at New York City’s Baruch College on Saturday — the latest sign that antisemitism is returning to college campuses this fall with a vengeance.
This was Baruch College yesterday. Masked men holding a sign with “Bring The War Home” and a gun.
Unless schools crack down immediately, this semester will be far worse than the Spring. pic.twitter.com/mz5pwzubsz
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) August 25, 2024
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported:
A small group of protesters gathered outside Baruch College in New York called for “war” in the United States and targeted the college’s Hillel Jewish student club, a further sign of escalating rhetoric on campus just ahead of the semester beginning on Wednesday.
On Saturday, the demonstrators held a banner that said “Bring the war home” alongside an image of an assault rifle, and a sign that said, “Let the intifada pave the way for people’s war.”
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According to images the protesters posted on social media, the demonstrators carried a sign that said, “Hillel go to hell,” with an inverted red triangle, a symbol the Hamas terror group uses to identify targets in propaganda videos. In the images, the activists wear keffiyehs and their faces are blurred. It was unclear how many of them were Baruch students.
I observed this pathetic palinazi protest & attended the counter protest in front of CUNY Baruch College this afternoon. It’s hysterical how they all put on their masks right before they started chanting. I was sitting there awhile prior. It’s even funnier how none of us wore… pic.twitter.com/U9Oeb6Ld4l
— Overjoyed with Polischmerz 🎗️ (@PaigeDavidoff) August 24, 2024
Protests have already erupted at Cornell University and the University of Michigan as students return to class.
A post promoting SJP at Baruch College in New York City includes two assault weapons. Let’s call this out for what it is. Violence has no place on campus. When Jewish students tell you we feel unsafe, here’s why. pic.twitter.com/TuNjokjyl7
— Jewish on Campus (@JewishonCampus_) August 23, 2024
The Biden-Harris administration has done very little about campus antisemitism. Former President Donald Trump, who extended civil rights protections to Jews on college campuses during his first term, has promised to remove the accreditation and federal funding from any college or university that allows antisemitic protests to continue.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of “”The Agenda: What Trump Should Do in His First 100 Days,” available for pre-order on Amazon. He is also the author of “The Trumpian Virtues: The Lessons and Legacy of Donald Trump’s Presidency,” now available on Audible. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
