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As anti-Israel agitators successfully held a days-long “encampment” at Columbia University in New York City, students at other elite schools across the United States began carrying out their own marches and sit-ins.
While some Democrats have attempted to describe these protests as “mostly peaceful,” participants often repeat hateful and antisemitic chants that call for the death of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and others who support Israel.
“We are Hamas!” the participants were heard shouting, referring to the terror group that launched the deadliest terror attack in Israel’s history. “Netanyahu, Netanyahu… you can’t hide. We charge you with genocide.” The same chant has been echoed with President Biden’s name.
The nationwide movement continues to gain momentum and has spread to other schools. Similar anti-Israel demonstrations have been witnessed at 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.
“If this isn’t contained, if they don’t think about it, what is going to be the end product? What is the end product of any hatred and prejudice? It is death to somebody. It could be death to themselves, death to their opponents. Because we didn’t stop Hitler like we had a chance during Kristallnacht. We could have stopped it, but nobody did. So I ended up in Auschwitz, and a million and a half of Jewish children were gassed,” she said.
“That type of behavior and anger and hatred can only end up in tragedy,” she said. “Tragedy for everybody. Not only tragedy for the Jews, God forbid tragedy for themselves, because it’s going to be a terrible clash. We have to find a way to stop it.”
Franklin Graham, the Christian evangelist and son of the late Billy Graham, echoed those same sentiments on social media.
“I agree,” he wrote in a post on Facebook. “When Tova walked out of Auschwitz as a little girl, she thought she would never experience the hate of antisemitism like that again. But here it is, right in our faces. The world needs to wake up to the dangers of this rancid hate. Tova is right – it’s like a cancer, if you don’t stop it early, it’s going to kill.”
During the ongoing negotiations late Tuesday evening with Columbia administrators, students said they would stop using hateful language in their chants. The students are protesting Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza, which has reportedly left tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians dead.
Fox News’ Taylor Penley contributed to this report.
