A young woman who attends Cornell University and other students testified before Congress this week about anti-Semitism on campus and was interrupted by anti-Israel protesters.
In the video below, you can see several of these people sitting just two rows behind the students.
The Daily Wire reports:
Pro-Palestinian Protesters Heckle Jewish Students During Campus Anti-Semitism HearingPro-Palestinian protesters heckled Jewish students during a Wednesday morning hearing before the House Judiciary Committee — where those students had been invited to testify regarding free speech and pro-Hamas, anti-Semitic protests that had taken place on their college campuses.Daily Caller News Foundation reporter Arjun Singh shared video from the hearing, captioning the clips, “Pro-Gaza protesters stand up, one-by-one, to heckle Jewish students testifying at a [House Judiciary Committee] hearing on free speech on college campuses, regarding anti-semitism and pro-Hamas views.”The Daily Signal’s Mary Margaret Olohan shared more video of the disruption, saying, “Pro-Palestine demonstrators repeatedly interrupt the House Judiciary Committee hearing on free speech on college campuses + the rise in antisemitism and antisemitic violence.”Once the hearing was underway — in addition to the rise in anti-Semitic rhetoric, demonstrations, and even attacks — students were asked to address the more general topic of free speech and whether that was something that even existed on college campuses, particularly when said speech came from conservative students and campus guests.
Here’s part of the testimony:
I was alone in a world gone mad. These are the words my grandfather wrote on the day in October, 1942 after his father had been shot dead and the Jews in his small Polish town, including his entire family, were deported to a death camp. He was a teenager alone in a labor camp with a bleak future filled with unimaginable suffering. I have thought about my grandfather’s words often in the 32 days since October 7th. If I have watched what I can only describe as a world gone mad, I have seen and heard things on or on and around Cornell’s campus that just over a month ago I could not have imagined. Cornell Professor Russell Rickford publicly justified and celebrated barbaric acts of terror as exhilarating and energizing, describing the torture, rape, and murder of innocent women and children as resistance. I see classmates perpetuating anti age old anti-Semitic tropes on social media.I walk across the campus defaced with anti-Israel signage and graffiti, seeing phrases such as ‘F’ Israel and Zionism equals genocide, anti-Zionism, and anti-Semitism are inextricably linked. This is evidenced by the Jew hatred that consistently and openly accompanies attacks on Zionism on campus. I’m now confronted daily with shouts to free Palestine from the river to the sea. This catchy chant is not about peace or sovereignty for the Palestinian people. It is a call for a Palestinian state extending from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, a territory that encompasses the entire state of Israel. It is a Jew hating, genocidal mandate, seeking to deny the Jewish right to self-determination in Israel. It is a call to exterminate all Jews in accordance with Hamas’s open and unequivocal goal. This chant is not about Palestinian life. It is about Jewish death.
Watch below:
Here are some other clips from the hearing:
How do these Code Pink types always seem to find their way into congressional hearings?
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