A student at George Mason University in Virginia was caught taking down Hamas kidnap posters on campus, and when confronted ripped the paper to pieces.
The unnamed woman was initially coy about her actions, telling the person who posted the flyer that she just wanted to look at it. She said under her breath that it was ‘propaganda’.
The man filming asked her why she felt that way, pointing out that the victim on the poster was a Thai worker snatched by the terrorists on October 7. He asked for the poster back, and she looked him in the eye and ripped it up, then walking away.
The video was first posted by StopAntisemitism – a leading non-profit organization – which stated the incident happened at UPenn. This was later corrected to confirm it took place at George Mason.
The confrontation is being played out on campuses nationwide, with the eight Ivy League universities in particular roiled by unrest.
Antisemitic incidents in the U.S. increased nearly 400 percent in the days after the October 7 attacks by Hamas, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
A George Mason student was caught on camera taking down a poster appealing for the release of a Thai man kidnapped by Hamas. She said the poster was ‘propaganda’
The student can be seen ripping the poster into pieces
George Mason University – student rips up flyer of kidnapped Israeli children.
Evil.
Antisemitic.
Cold hearted.Take your pick and help us ID her! pic.twitter.com/kXNPYxgb1l
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) October 31, 2023
At Yale, a student journalist who wrote an op-ed about the October 7 attacks was shocked to find that the editors had removed sections of her text.
‘Editor’s note, correction, Oct. 25: This column has been edited to remove unsubstantiated claims that Hamas raped women and beheaded men,’ they wrote.
Body camera footage filmed by the Hamas terrorists themselves, and retrieved from their bodies, shows them beheading a man.
NBC News, which was shown the footage, reported on October 27 that a group of Hamas terrorists argue over who gets to cut off the head of a Thai man who was killed while working in Israel. One of the attackers then struggles to chop off his head with a hoe.
NBC also reported that there was evidence of rape.
Footage shot by Israeli first responders shows the corpse of a young woman who is naked from the waist down.
Israeli officials said they also found evidence that some women who were raped and killed had their legs broken.
Sophomore Sahar Tartak, whose mother emigrated from Iran, said she was shocked by the editors’ work.
‘I’m still collecting my thoughts on the YDN’s egregious correction,’ wrote Tartak on Monday.
She reposted a comment by a Yale professor, Nicholas Christakis, who asked: ‘Are the hostage-taking, murder of children in their beds, burning of people alive, and parading of nude captive women in the street also ‘unsubstantiated’?’
Tartak’s article condemned the Yale student group Yalies4Palestine, which on October 9 blamed Israel for the attack.
Sophomore Sahar Tartak wrote the Yale News article, which was then censored
‘Yalies4Palestine stands in solidarity with Palestinian resistance against violent settler colonial oppression,’ they said.
‘We mourn the tragic loss of civilian lives, and for this we hold the Zionist regime accountable.’
Cornell, in upstate New York, has been particularly roiled.
On Sunday night, threats to shoot Jewish students at the 104 West building, which houses their kosher dining hall, were posted online.
Other messages encouraged others to harm Jews, according to the school’s student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun.
New York State police have increased their security on Cornell’s campus following the threats.
On Monday, Kathy Hochul, the governor of New York, called those who made threats against Jewish students at Cornell ‘terrorists’, and warned that anyone making threats ‘will get no refuge.’
A Cornell professor who declared that he was ‘energized’ and ‘exhilarated’ by Hamas’ attack has gone on leave for the rest of the semester.
And at Columbia, a swastika was found on Friday graffitied inside a bathroom in the International Affairs Building.
On October 18, Minouche Shafik, the president of Columbia, wrote to all students and condemned the wave of hatred across campus.
‘Unfortunately, some are using this moment to spread antisemitism, Islamophobia, bigotry against Palestinians and Israelis, and various other forms of hate,’ Shafik wrote.
‘Especially at a time of pain and anger, we must avoid language that vilifies, threatens, or stereotypes entire groups of people.’
Harvard’s president has had to repeatedly attempt to distance herself from student groups which blamed Israel for the terror attack.
On Monday, journalist Yashar Ali shared a clip of a young man, his face covered with a mask, hurling antisemitic abuse at a person in Harvard Square, in the center of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The young man was filmed yelling about how much he loved Hamas
He told a furious woman that he believed Israelis ‘should be all exterminated’. He was not on campus, and it was unclear if he was a Harvard student
‘I love Hamas,’ he shouted. ‘I think Hamas should blow the s*** out of Israel.
‘I think they’re all dirty, dirty animals and they all deserve to die.’
He added: ‘I think they should all be exterminated, every single one of them. And their kids, their mothers, their children, everybody.’
The incident was not on campus, and it is not known if the man was a student.