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Members of New York’s influential Tisch family projected faces of the Israeli hostages taken by Hamas onto the side of New York University’s library Monday in a show of support to the college’s Jewish students after posters bearing similar photographs were ripped down at the elite institution’s campus.
“There’s been a lot of threats down there towards Jewish students and they probably feel very isolated and alone, I would imagine,” a Tisch family member who was “really disturbed by acts of antisemitism on campus” told The Post on Thursday.
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“This was partly to support the posters — to bring the hostages home — and partly to make them feel like they weren’t completely alone.”
Pro-Israel counter protestors chant across a line of police officers towards a vigil organized by NYU students in support of Palestinians in Washington Square Park in New York City, Oct. 17, amid ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas. (Alex Kent/AFP via Getty Images)
The family member asked to remain anonymous to avoid furthering the divide that has emerged amid the Israeli-Hamas conflict.
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He and other supporters stationed the projector inside the NYU Tisch School of the Arts building — named after the family in 1982 in recognition of a donation from Laurence A. and Preston Robert Tisch — so that the massive slideshow was blasted across the street and onto the West 4th Street façade of the university’s library.
New York University building entrance. (Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images/File)
The institution was not privy to the demonstration, he added. NYU did not respond to requests for comment. A crowd of roughly 70 organizers gathered on the Washington Square Park corner below to sing in Hebrew and wave Israeli flags.
A view of New York University sign on the campus building. ( John Nacion/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images/File)
The slideshow mimicked the posters that have been plastered and subsequently ripped down in cities across the nation, including NYU’s own campus.
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