Former CNN anchor Campbell Brown posted a sobering message on social media on Sunday. The previous TV host mentioned she was taking her sons to Israel the place they’d be “safer and really feel welcome” than at the moment in New York, the place pro-Palestinian protests are raging.
“I'm on my technique to Israel the place my two sons shall be safer and really feel extra welcome than they’d be on the Higher West Aspect right this moment,” Brown wrote on X, previously referred to as Twitter.
Fb's former vp of media partnerships at Meta additionally shared the hashtag #AmYisraelChai. Am Yisrael Chai means “the folks of Israel dwell” and is commonly utilized in occasions of hardship confronted by the Jewish folks.
That is undoubtedly a type of moments.
Brown's message got here as a whole bunch of arrests have been made on faculty campuses in New York throughout riots and anti-Israel protests within the wake of the Gaza conflict.
On Monday night time alone, greater than 150 folks have been arrested on the New York College campus, based on the NYPD. This comes after one other latest mass arrest at Columbia College, the place greater than 100 folks have been detained, ABC Information reported.
Underscoring the seriousness of the scenario on the bottom, Columbia College switched to full distance studying on Monday. The choice got here after Rabbi Elie Buechler, a religion chief related to the college's Orthodox Jewish Studying Initiative union, despatched a WhatsApp message to about 300 Jewish college students over the weekend urging them to go away the campus.
He mentioned that Columbia College Public Security and the NYPD weren’t going to “assure the protection of Jewish college students” and urged the scholars to stroll out.
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“It pains me deeply to say that I’d strongly advise you to return residence as quickly as doable and keep residence till the truth on and round campus improves dramatically,” Buechler mentioned.
As CBN Information reported, Jewish college students are certainly involved for his or her security because the protests intensify. A number of the protests reportedly praised Hamas or highlighted terrorist violence. One protester reportedly shouted: “We’re all Hamas” and “Lengthy dwell Hamas” – and that's not all.
“A disturbing, profanity-laced video simply outdoors a Columbia campus reveals Jewish college students being threatened with calls to return to Poland, the place the Holocaust befell, as college students inform one another they're scared and ask the place the police are. CBN's Abigail Robertson reported.
She continued: “And a stunning picture posted on X reveals a protester standing in entrance of pro-Israel college students and holding an indication with an arrow that reads 'Al-Qasam targets extra.' Al-Qassam is the navy wing of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.
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