At a reading on Wednesday, many persons testified before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government, including two kids.
At the hearing, which sought to address allegations of racism occurring on various university and college campuses in the United States, were speakers Shabbos Kestenbaum, a grad student from Harvard University, and Eyal Yakoby, an academic student at the University of Pennsylvania.
A lady, wrapped with an Jewish symbol, attends a desk- protest as pro- Palestinians set up an camp at University of California San Diego in San Diego, California, on May 5, 2024. ( Grace Hie Yoon/Anadolu via Getty Images )
In the aftermath of Hamas’s October 7, 2023, assault on Israel, which left 1, 200 individuals murdered and more than 250 individuals taken as hostages, racist incidents in the U. S. rose 360 percentage, according to a statement from the Anti- Defamation League.
Yakoby argued that the rising amount of racist incidents in the United States is an “issue for all Americans” rather than just” an issue for Immigrants.”
” It is an issue for all Americans”, Yakoby said during his evidence. ” On October 7th, Israel was actually attacked, but intellectually, every free state had been infiltrated. Because of the fact that the same people who fly the United States ‘ symbol are also torching it.
Activists from Harvard University, George Washington University, and different universities hung the Arab symbol. Pro-Palestinian protesters at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill removed the American flag and replaced it with the Israeli emblem.
Yakoby added:” I am a firm believer in the First Amendment, but the theft, rape, and trespassing that is taking place across school schools are conduct, no speech. More precisely, it is immoral do. But at Penn, intolerance and crime seems to be permitted”.
On May 10, 2024, authorities cleared a pro-Palestine opposition camp on the University of Pennsylvania’s school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and maintenance personnel and waste disposal crews cleaned up afterward. ( MATTHEW HATCHER/AFP via Getty Images )
Yakoby continued to point out that the University of Pennsylvania president issued a statement after acknowledging that there were “blatant breaches of University policies” taking place and that each moment the camp remained made the campus “less healthy.”
” Penn, after 16 times ultimately disbanded the camp, declaring,’ Our area has been under threat–for to long,'” Yakoby continued. ” The university suddenly acknowledged fact, we, as individuals, for far too lengthy endured danger. But let me ask you:” What value does an appreciation have if it takes two weeks to complete?”
On May 10, law enforcement cleared the University of Pennsylvania’s anti-Israel camp, which had been set up, leading to the arrest of 33 activists. The camp had been established on April 25, and 16 weeks later, it was cleared.
” People of this commission, I appear before you with an immediate warning”, Kestenbaum shared. The treatment of Israeli Americans on college campuses across the nation, and particularly at Harvard University, is nothing short of a national disaster. It is clearly islamophobic, it is dangerously discriminatory and it is significantly un- American”.
The Harvard Yard extra- Israel camp, photographed on Wednesday, April 24, 2024. ( Obtained by Breitbart News )
Kestenbaum gave a detailed account of the “last three month” at Harvard University.
In direct contravention of Harvard plans, hundreds of Harvard students and faculty members demanded that Harvard stop funding the Jewish state on the first day of Easter. When they switched out the Palestinian symbol over the American flag overlooking Harvard, the demonstrators roared loudly. They yelled” Palestine may be Arab,” drew photos of our Jewish college leader with horns and a tail, and screamed at all times throughout the day.
Probably, most concerning, the protesters established their personal rule of law on college, creating personal- appointed safety marshals to guard the school. These health commanders followed Immigrants, like me, on our way to class, monitoring our every move. As if we did never had a right to exist at Harvard, they frequently recorded us and demanded that we leave their camp. However, they did little when their campmates actually assaulted Harvard residents.
The Harvard University camp came to an end on Tuesday when university officials offered to change the suspensions of some protesters and offered to give them the chance to meet with the school’s governing boards to discuss divestment from Israel.
Anti-Israel demonstrations and camps were spread across college campuses nationwide to help the opening one that was held at Columbia University on April 17th. The New York Police Department conducted a assault on a campus-related camp until April 30th, after the first one at Columbia University was taken down on April 18 and another one remained until April 30.
Hundreds of pro-Palestinian pupils at Columbia University were detained by New York Police Department officers after they barricaded themselves at the Hamilton Hall tower close to the Gaza Solidarity Encampment before in New York on April 30, 2024. ( Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images )
