We have long tracked the increasing aggressiveness of anti-Israel groups on campus.
See my post this summer,
Expecting anti-Israel violence on campuses this fall, for a partial catalog of such instances.
One component of these protests is non-student activists inflaming the situation. For example, on April 10, 2014, after the Cornell student assembly tabled an anti-Israel divestment resolution, a non-student Ithaca activist (kat yang-stevens) confronted me and falsely accused me of putting my camera in her face. In fact,
the video clearly shows (language warning) she made it up in order to create an incident.
On November 19, 2014, Cornell Students for Justice in Palestine organized a mock Israeli checkpoint at Ho Plaza, a central student gathering point on campus between the Cornell Bookstore and Willard Straight Hall, where many student activities are centered.
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Casey Breznick, Editor in Chief of the Cornell Review and an author at Legal Insurrection, has the story
at the Cornell Review Blog of a confrontation that took place when a group of pro-Israel students counter-protested holding Israeli flags and signs calling for peace.
Here is video we put together based on footage provided to us by multiple student sources, showing yang-stevens pulling the same ploy she pulled on me last April, claiming that the student had his camera in her face (which he denies both in the video and also in communications with me), as yang-stevens taunted the pro-Israel student to hit her. As another person shouted out "Fuck you Zionist scums":
(Language Warning)
In addition to his Review report, Casey told me: