A Jewish student at Columbia University says anti-Israel demonstrators snatched his Israeli flag and burned it, then hit him in the face with a rock during a weekend campus riot.
Jonathan Lederer, 22, was holding up Israeli flags just before 10 p.m. Saturday when protesters grabbed one of them and took off, while another agitator burned a second flag. he told the police.
Police said Lederer began filming the incident as two other anti-Israel demonstrators threw rocks at him, punched him in the face, and then took off.
“On Saturday night, the situation on campus reached a new low,” Lederer wrote in his paper. Article he wrote for the Free Press And it was published on Monday.
“With multiple protests taking place inside and outside the gates of Colombia, my friends and I decided to once again show our pride, as we have done many times since Hamas started the war,” he said. said.
Lederer said he was singing a song calling for peace with friends when he encountered “masked keffiyeh wearers” who came “face to face” with Jewish students.
“They shouted, ‘Damn Israel, Israel is a piece of shit,'” he wrote. “They said, ‘You’re all inbred.'”
He said protesters began chasing them toward the campus gates shortly after midnight.
Lederer has clashed with anti-Israel mobs in recent weeks as demonstrations intensify at Columbia University, Yale University and other university campuses.
On Thursday, he was among the Jewish students who praised the NYPD’s campus raid that handcuffed more than 100 protesters, who returned to school grounds just one day later.
“It wasn’t violent, but it showed that rules were being enforced and that they were needed,” Lederer said at the time. “Otherwise, there will be chaos if the rules are not enforced.”
Meanwhile, police have reported other anti-Semitic incidents in recent days, including new tent cities that have sprung up in Colombia, as anti-Israel protests intensify.
On Saturday, Yale Free Press Editor-in-Chief Sahar Tartak was stabbed in the eye with a Palestinian flag while covering a protest on the Ivy League campus.
One Big Apple retailer reported finding swastika stickers on newsstands Friday.
Also on Friday, a 41-year-old man in the city told police he found the words “P—-y A—Jews” spray-painted on a sidewalk in Brooklyn, police said. It is said that he did.
Last week, a pair of Columbia University students on the Manhattan campus said they were told to “kill themselves,” and one of the protesters kicked his friend in the stomach before fleeing.
