a Jew Columbia University The student, who is from Israel and serves as a national medic and IDF service member, called out anti-Israel protesters, whose chaos has spread nationally, in an interview with Fox News’ Guy Benson.
The 20-year-old medical student, known as “Ethan,” commented on the protests and the anti-Semitic sentiments and Holocaust denial rhetoric of many of the people who vandalized the campus in an interview Wednesday on “The Guy.” Denied. The Benson Show” on Fox News Radio.
Ethan said it was his dream attend columbiaCiting his family’s apparent working-class status and New York City’s fame as the center of American medicine and expertise, protesters claim much of what he claims is flawed, dangerous, or untrue.
“I wanted to break boundaries. I wanted to go and get the best education, and unfortunately now that’s questionable, but I started my medical career as a volunteer at Tel Aviv Medical Center in the pediatric ER. ” Ethan told “The Guy Benson Show.”
Iranian-American lawyer predicts protesters want new world war
He mentioned working as a medic for Magen David Adom – “The Red Shield of David” – Israel’s national EMT service, and serving in the Israeli Defense Forces. host guy benson His area of service was related to the same as being a Medical Unit Commander.
Ethan said that contrary to protesters’ claims that Israel is a nefarious force, in his role as an EMT he has treated at least one anti-Israel terrorist, and most Israelis want to live in peace with ethnic Palestinians.
Click below to listen to the full interview with ‘Ethan’ on ‘The Guy Benson Show’:
“I can tell you directly – compared to the people who are protesting outside right now – that I lived there, I saved people there and actively risked my life to treat them… those To protect people who are from a country that is considered an enemy of the country,” he said, adding that Israelis, like their American colleagues, are big believers in freedom of expression, even when it is counterproductive.
“I don’t care, and if you talk to Israelis or Jewish people, nobody cares. It’s like, people want peace. I don’t know anybody who comes and says, ‘I’m a Palestinian. I protest. I protest for the Palestinians,’ and… I don’t hear people saying, ‘Don’t protest for Palestine.'”
Referring to the time he once treated a female terrorist who was injured while trying to stab soldiers, he said that when he revived the terrorist, he had a gun in one hand and a defibrillator in the other.
“If she was not a threat at this time – yes, Israel and the IDF operate under international laws. We have democratic, very advanced courts and legal systems, and we need to follow protocol.”
Columbia’s Jewish students condemn campus chaos as rabbi warns them to leave campus
Ethan said, “In general… it’s ridiculous to compare the IDF to Hamas – and that’s why we’re here.”
He said that the father of one of his friends has been held captive by Hamas since the October 7 attack.
“Since then, we’ve seen a very worrying trend at Columbia University, in particular, when people support Hamas, and, you know, some of them even justify what happened…” he said.
“But I have to say, at the same time I heard a lot of people on the other side condemning those actions, so I hope there’s room for a healthy dialogue, but since October 7, my dream started to fall apart Down and started to[go away]from the thing that I’m most proud of, that I’m not ashamed of, but, like, I don’t want to be on campus.”
Click for more from Fox News Radio
Ethan said he is speechless when he hears about comparisons between Israel and Nazi Germany, adding that the term “anti-Semite” has been a public “taboo” for as long as the radicalization of anti-Semitism protesters. The current fire storm did not increase.
He said there is a difference between being anti-Zionist, or against the state of Israel, and being anti-Zionist, or against the Jewish faith.
“So it’s legitimate to be anti-Zionist, but if you support Israel… If you support Israel or if you don’t condemn Israel, you can be part of this camp. You can be on the side You can be part of us. But if you’re a Jew who doesn’t stand up loudly against the state of Israel, you can’t be part of us, like, you need to actively call for the destruction of Israel. And then you’re in,” he said in protest.
He and Benson pointed to the prevalence of the term intifada, an Arabic word for “uprising”, which refers to riots or protests in the Palestinian territories, such as the first intifada of 1987, which was described by an Israeli truck driving another It had erupted near Jabaliya, Gaza after being hit. The vehicle that caused the deaths of four Palestinians.
Pointing to his family history, Ethan said protesters’ claims that the Jewish people or Israelis are a malevolent force are misleading.
He said his grandmother survived the genocide and he has Arab friends in Israel. Many of his mother’s employees are Muslim, Ethan said, and he celebrates Ramadan with them, even though he is Jewish. One of his grandmothers is also from Libya.
He said, “We speak, and we have a lot in common, which makes it even more frustrating that no one is willing to listen to find the common denominator.”
Benson played a clip of a reporter talking with anti-Israel protesters near NYU this week.
“I’m smiling because I’m scared,” Ethan told Benson after the clip, with the host calling the exchanges a disturbing indictment of his ignorance.
Ethan said he is openly gay, which further complicates the emotions when seeing anti-Israel protests by other LGBTQ youth.
“When I try to talk to the LGBTQ+ community, I try to explain that they can’t possibly be gay in Gaza, it feels like they’ll probably be killed,” he said.
Ethan said Israel is the only nation in the Middle East that “celebrates Pride” while others criminalize homosexuality.
“The only response I got was, ‘Shut up, Nazi,’ and I said, ‘How can you call me a Nazi when I’m Jewish?'”
