A horde of pro-Palestinian demonstrators held a New York library under siege last week while a group of Jewish students took refuge from the mob.
The episode, which took place at Cooper Union, a science and art school in Manhattan’s East Village with less than 1,000 students, featured about 50 students who were forced to barricade themselves inside the library as pro-Palestinian protestors stormed the building.
Video recorded at the prestigious engineering and architecture school @cooperunion on Oct. 25 in Manhattan shows Jewish students taking refuge in a campus library while aggressive anti-Israel protesters pound on the door. pic.twitter.com/nkp6iV4jZM
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Cooper Union sophomore Taylor Roslyn Lent was among those locked inside the library as demonstrators pounded on the doors.
“I can say that I felt unsafe and unprotected,” she told the New York Post. “I would like the university to admit what went on and not avoid the topic. I was shocked that I was experiencing this at my private university — in America — in 2023.”
The pro-Palestinian protestors reportedly carried flags and signs reading, “Zionism Hands Off Our Universities,” as they terrorized students.
The episode marks an ugly escalation of public antisemitism to sweep the globe after Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist attack that killed 1,400 civilians in Israel.
In Russia, pro-Palestinian rioters stormed an airport to hunt down Jewish passengers who arrived from Tel Aviv.
“Passengers were forced to take refuge in planes or hide in the airport for
