2024-04-22 04:00:39
The terrorists are here. https://t.co/lwjk1OTJxJ
— William A. Jacobson (@wajacobson) April 21, 2024
Passover is a significant Jewish holiday. It begins at sundown on Monday. It marks the Jewish people’s escape from slavery in Egypt:
For the last of the ten plagues, God asked the Jews to sacrifice a lamb or goat and smear its blood on their doorposts as a way to show that their house was Jewish. Then God went through all the houses and killed the first-born son of every Egyptian house, passing over the Jewish homes. In Hebrew, Passover is called Pesach, meaning “to pass over.”
This last plague pushed Pharaoh to set the Israelites free. Since they had to leave quickly, they didn’t have time to wait for their bread to rise. This is why Jews eat matzah, a flat, unleavened bread, and refrain from eating grains on Passover.
The Pharaoh and his army attempted to pursue the Israelites as they left Egypt, but Moses parted the Red Sea, allowing the Israelites to escape.
The Passover holiday both celebrates the freedom of the Israelites and commemorates their suffering in Egypt.
I don’t think it’s a coincidence these anti-Israel dumbs chose this week to amp up their hatred.
Columbia University
Columbia University. Man, I don’t know what to say.
Columbia officials told students they could attend classes and take exams virtually on Monday due to the anti-Israel protesters covering the lawns.
Professor Shai Davidai requested Columbia give him a police escort.
I just send this message to the leadership at @Columbia University.
I am going to be on campus Monday morning and I am requesting police escort.
Police escort for simply going to my own place of work. pic.twitter.com/akhKvDPi5m
— Shai Davidai (@ShaiDavidai) April 21, 2024
⬇️⬇️Update ⬇️⬇️ pic.twitter.com/1Sod7hjvO1
— Shai Davidai (@ShaiDavidai) April 22, 2024
Rabbi Elie Buechler, a rabbi associated with Columbia University’s Orthodox Union Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus, advised Jewish students to leave campus and return home to avoid “extreme antisemitism and anarchy.”
“It is not our job as Jews to ensure our own safety on campus,” wrote Buechler. “No one should have to endure this level of hatred, let alone at school.”
In response to “horrific” scenes of antisemitic harassment at and around campus, the Orthodox Rabbi at Columbia/Barnard sent a WhatsApp message to more than 290+ Jewish students this morning recommending that they go home until it’s safe again for them on campus: pic.twitter.com/uqAntEICLv
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) April 21, 2024
When they claim the protests at @Columbia University are peaceful, show them this video.
The coward with the covered face holds a sign that reads: “Al-Qasam’s Next Targets” with an arrow pointing to students holding Israeli and American flags.
Al-Qasam is the military arm of… pic.twitter.com/v8zDizxkP9
— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) April 21, 2024
Yale
A Yale Jewish student said an anti-Israel protester stabbed her in the eye with the pole holding a Palestinian flag:
Sahar Tartak, editor-in-chief of the Yale Free Press, had been covering the protest, which had drawn hundreds of students in support of Palestinians, when she says she was surrounded by a mob of protesters.
Tartak said the protest had been slowly brewing for the week prior, with students setting up a tent encampment in the middle of campus and creating a memorial to a Palestinian terrorist, Walid Daqqa. The crowd had also created a mock F-16 covered in fake blood to protest the Israeli military.
This activity, Tartak said, culminated in hundreds of students gathering at the plaza, chanting slogans like: “There is one solution, intifada revolution.”
When Tartak went Saturday night to cover the protest with a friend, the crowd instantly singled them out because they were “identifiably Jewish,” she said.
“They made a human blockade in front of us and blockaded us whenever we tried to exercise our freedom of movement around the protest,” Tartak said.
At some point, she and her friend were separated. The protesters formed a circle around her, chanting incendiary slogans and taunting her.
“One of the students, whose face was covered in a keffiyeh, took a Palestinian flag that he was holding, waved it in my face and hit my left eye,” Tartak said.
Yale: Jewish student told by protest organizers blockading me at a violent anti-Jewish rally that he can only join the rally on the “outskirts” and “outside.” Jews can’t get too close—when I tried to walk forward, they blockaded. Then I got stabbed in the eye by a ???????? flag pic.twitter.com/lhKnOirJJv
— Sahar Tartak???????????????? (@sahar_tartak) April 21, 2024
A Chassidic Jewish student was blockaded by protest organizers at a violent Yale rally last night. They followed his every move, and did the same to me. Obviously, this happened to no one else pic.twitter.com/YIrbiv5sJE
— Sahar Tartak???????????????? (@sahar_tartak) April 21, 2024
University of Vienna 1938 barring Jewish students
Yale University 2024 barring Jewish students pic.twitter.com/Hp1jxxcWML
— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) April 22, 2024
Monday morning, police began arresting students at the encampment at Beinecke Plaza. Over 2450 students converged on the plaza on Sunday night.
Students at Yale sing on the edge of the plaza while those who remained are being arrested: pic.twitter.com/8CVy6gn4QQ
— Steve McGuire (@sfmcguire79) April 22, 2024
The student protestors at Yale are being zip-tied and loaded into a university shuttle. pic.twitter.com/MQ8Td29RUO
— Steve McGuire (@sfmcguire79) April 22, 2024
BREAKING: Police have just told protestors at Yale they will be arrested if they don’t leave: pic.twitter.com/58ku4S6Iwh
— Steve McGuire (@sfmcguire79) April 22, 2024
The crowd cheers as arrested @Yale students are loaded into a shuttle and taken away this morning. pic.twitter.com/5knt08y6FM
— Steve McGuire (@sfmcguire79) April 22, 2024
After the arrests, students at Yale are blocking the main intersection on campus: pic.twitter.com/Cgk9GGti0i
— Steve McGuire (@sfmcguire79) April 22, 2024
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