Anti-Israel Activists Target Jewish Students at U. Minnesota

Anti-Israel Activists Target Jewish Students at U. Minnesota

The Jewish students invited a speaker that the activists didn’t like. That’s all it takes.

Campus Reform reports:

‘Noise demo’ targets Jewish students, Chabad House at UMN

Jewish students at the University of Minnesota were targeted after anti-Israel activists protested outside the campus Chabad House during a Shabbat dinner featuring a speaker who served in the IDF.

Before the event on April 17, a campus chapter of Students for a Democratic Society (UMN SDS) promoted a “noise demo,” where the group encouraged protesters to bring pots, pans, whistles, and instruments to make noise outside the event and cause disruption.

In a post uploaded onto Instagram by the UMN SDS, the group made a plea to students to bring materials and friends “to make lots of noise,” and as a means to make it “clear that UMN does not support genocide.”

However, following the event and adjoining protest, graffiti was discovered on sidewalks outside of the Chabad House that included phrases like “Death to the IDF,” “Child Killers,” “Free Gaza,” and “IDF murderers supported here.”

In a statement issued by Alums for Campus Fairness, the group outlined the phrases that were found, while also condemning the incident and calling the protest outside the Chabad House a “targeted disruption.”

Alums for Campus Fairness outlined that after the chalking was discovered, it was removed by the Chabad’s student board, which then replaced it with images of flowers, hearts, and peace signs.

In a video uploaded to Instagram from the protest outside the Chabad House, protesters can be seen chanting phrases like “Free, Free, Palestine!” and booing an individual who was holding an Israeli flag and wearing a yarmulke. At least one protester can also be heard yelling “F**k you!” at the individual.

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