JERUSALEM, Israel – Pro-Hamas demonstrations that began at Columbia University have spread to a number of other college campuses throughout the U.S.
In Israel, the protests are reminiscent of darker times for the Jewish people.
Police arrested nearly thirty demonstrators Wednesday at the University of Texas, and it’s estimated nearly two hundred campuses have some form of anti-Israel protests, including Yale, U.S.C., and Harvard.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu strongly warned against the antisemitic and anti-American rioters.
“Antisemitic mobs have taken over leading universities,” he said. “They call for the annihilation of Israel, they attack Jewish students, they attack Jewish faculty. When you listen to them, it’s also because they say not only, ‘Death to Israel. Death to the Jews,’ but ‘death to America.’ And this tells us that there is an antisemitic surge here that has terrible consequences.”
Netanyahu added a caution about this exponential rise in hatred.
“We have to stop antisemitism because antisemitism is the canary in the coal mine. It always precedes larger conflagrations that engulf the entire world.”
House Speaker Mike Johnson and several colleagues came to witness the upheaval at Columbia. He called on the school’s president to resign if she can’t get the campus under control immediately.
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