a Jew Princeton University Freshman recall blatant anti-Semitism she witnessed at an anti-Israel protest camp on an Ivy League campus this week.
Maximilian Meyer of New York told Fox News Digital that protesters waved Hezbollah flags and chanted slogans in support of Hamas, as the wave of anti-Israel activism that has been sweeping some of America’s top institutions arrived at Princeton — forcing Jewish students into classrooms. The fear of leaving started bothering me. and engaging in regular student life.
“The strangest thing for me is that I saw the Hezbollah flag several times and I was not even shocked,” the mayor said in an interview. “And I thought it was more emblematic of the moral rot that has taken over our college campuses – our so-called elite college campuses – than anything else. The fact that we not only have Hezbollah flags, but we have There are also slogans supporting the Houthis, slogans supporting Hamas, but we are not surprised that it has become ubiquitous.
The US State Department officially declares Hezbollah a foreign terrorist organization.
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According to The Daily Princetonian, the Hezbollah flag was seen at the Princeton camp around 5:16 p.m. Thursday. After this the organizers asked to remove it immediately.
According to the publication, the photo of the flag was initially shared by an . It was reposted by Senator Ted Cruz, R-Texas.
Meyer, who is currently studying politics at Princeton, said he has been standing up against anti-Israel organizations since the war in Gaza broke out following the October 7 attack on Israel. He said the number of counter-protesters joining him varied, sometimes reaching about six or seven students in total, while 100 to 150 students and faculty demanded that Princeton divest from Israel. Go and condemn the Jewish state’s campaign to destroy Hamas. , a terrorist group.
Maximilian Meyer, a freshman studying politics at Princeton, said Thursday he has protested against the anti-Israel camp on campus since its inception. The mayor told Fox News Digital that he saw Hezbollah flags at the camp and knows of Jewish students who are afraid to cross campus to attend class because of anti-Semitism displayed by their classmates and teachers. (Maximilian Mayer)
However, the mayor said many jewish students They do not want to stop and speak due to fear and intimidation by pro-Hamas groups.
“They are horrified by the fact that their professor is participating in their calls for genocide,” Meyer told Fox News Digital.
The mayor said that when he attends protests, he always carries an American flag alongside the Israeli flag in an effort to signal his support for Israel as a Jewish American.
“So, when I walk with my American flag and my Israeli flag, I understand that I’m not just protesting for my own people as a Jew, but as an American I’m protesting for my own people. Protesting,” he explained. “And that’s a fundamental point that people need to understand. People need to understand that standing against the pro-Hamas mob is exactly the same as standing with the United States.”
Aerial firing on protesters at Princeton University in New Jersey on Thursday. (WTXF)
Meyer said his fellow Jewish students can no longer go to school normally, with students now becoming distracted during class “because they hear the chanting.”
“They are calling for their own genocide when they are trying to pay attention and get their education,” he said. “Not only are these distracting and disgusting, they are clearly anti-Semitic. I would like the administration to condemn any of these calls.”
Meyer called out faculty members who had supported the protests and specifically mentioned Professor Max Weiss, who recently gave a speech at the tent camp on the campus of Princeton University in which he read a poem written by a Palestinian author. Was. The poem says that the Jews “evolved backward” “from victim to victim” New York Post reporter, who watched the speech. Weiss is currently an Associate Professor of History at Princeton.
Hezbollah members salute and wave the group’s yellow flags during the funeral of fighters killed in an Israeli attack on their vehicles in Shehabiya, Lebanon, April 17. (AFP via Getty Images)
“In that poem (he) said, the Jews ‘have evolved backwards.’ Evolved backwards. And if that’s not anti-Semitic, if that’s not a violation of policies related to discrimination, I don’t know what is,” the mayor said.
Princeton University did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Just last week, university police moved in on a tent occupation of Princeton’s campus, ultimately leading to two arrests. Princeton University Public Safety, the Ivy League school’s police force, gave protesters several warnings before taking action, the university said.
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The mayor said he thinks the university has taken a step in the right direction with the arrests of protesters, but “it’s not enough.”
The mayor told Fox News Digital, “To openly support anti-Semitism is disgusting. It’s disgusting, and the university does nothing except talk about free speech and not allow tents to be built. But “Tents are not the extent of the problem.” “Tents are not everything, everything that must be stopped. They must be stopped. But Hezbollah flags must be stopped.”
Fox News Digital’s Lawrence Richard contributed to this report.
