‘Feeling threatened’: Jewish students at New York protests speak against antisemitism, reflect on Oct. 7

Jewish students who witnessed the monolithic anti-Israel protests successful New York City connected Monday offered beardown messages of enactment for the Israeli radical and spoke retired against antisemitism connected assemblage campuses.

Sam, a pupil astatine New York University (NYU), told Fox News Digital that helium and his Jewish friends were "completely engulfed" by anti-Israel protesters wrong 20 minutes of arriving astatine Washington Square Park.

Sam and his chap Jewish students were not harmed during the event, and they thanked the New York Police Department (NYPD) for keeping them safe.

During the "Within Our Lifetime" protestation astatine the park, anti-Israel demonstrators engaged successful chants that called for Israeli citizens to "go backmost home" and criticized Jewish students erstwhile they gathered to sing Hebrew hymns.

ONE YEAR AFTER 10/7 ATTACKS AND DEMOCRAT-RUN STATES HAVE LET ANTISEMITISM FESTER

Jewish students spoke with Fox News Digital astir anti-Israel protests and the October 7 anniversary.  (Fox News)

Police successful the country successfully kept the opposing protestation groups astatine bay, often breaking up tense arguments and erecting barricades to abstracted them. During 1 tense exchange, 2 anti-Israel protesters held up an Israeli emblem to Jewish students earlier placing it connected the ground. They proceeded to stomp and footwear the emblem a fewer feet from 1 of the barricades.

Later, an anti-Israel protester repeatedly blew a large aerial horn into the look of a Jewish student, who yet enactment connected noise-canceling headphones to drown retired the sound.

Sam told Fox News Digital that helium feels heard and respected astatine NYU. However, helium noted that feeling does not clasp existent extracurricular the classroom.

"That doesn’t bespeak 100 feet retired of the schoolroom up to the parkland oregon erstwhile I’m walking," helium said. "If I person immoderate Jewish symbols connected – connected Friday nights I deterioration a Kippah. I’m yelled at. Sometimes, radical volition marque rude comments to maine successful passing."

AS OCTOBER 7TH ANNIVERSARY APPROACHES, JEWISH STUDENTS BRACE FOR PROTESTS, VOW TO ‘WALK PROUDLY’

People instrumentality portion successful protests connected Broad Street successful New York City, NY, Monday, October 7, 2024. Today marks one-year since the October 7 Hamas attacks connected Israel. (Adam Gray for Fox News Digital)

University of Pittsburgh pupil Racheli told Fox News Digital that she traveled implicit 5 hours from Pennsylvania to enactment Jewish students facing antisemitism and amusement them they are "not alone."

"College is expected to beryllium a clip of assemblage and learning – but alternatively they’re feeling threatened successful their ain campuses," she said.

Racheli solemnly revealed that 2 of her simple schoolhouse classmates were murdered during the Nova Music Festival violent onslaught by Hamas connected October 7, 2023.

"The lone happening that Israel has ever done is support its people, and they person the close to exist, and we privation to beryllium successful bid with each astir us," she added.

ON OCT. 7 ANNIVERSARY, WE REMEMBER THIS BETRAYAL OF SILENCE

A pistillate is arrested arsenic radical instrumentality portion successful protests connected Broad Street successful New York City, NY, Monday, October 7, 2024. (Adam Gray for Fox News Digital)

Sam besides weighed successful connected the October 7 anniversary, calling it the astir "tragic" onslaught against Jewish radical since the Holocaust.

"October 6 was the past nighttime we went to slumber with a afloat heart. Since then, it’s been devastation. It’s been each day, changeless tragedy," helium continued.

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The 2023 onslaught perpetrated by Hamas terrorists killed 1,200 radical successful the worst time of unit against Jews since the Holocaust. Hamas besides took hundreds of hostages.

There are astir 100 hostages reported to inactive stay successful Gaza, and it is believed that less than 70 of them are alive. More than 40,000 Palestinians person been killed successful Gaza during the war, according to the Associated Press.