Anti-Israel protester screams ‘Go back to Poland’ at demonstrators with Israeli flag outside Columbia, harrowing video shows
NY Post
An anti-Israel protester was caught on camera near Columbia University on Saturday night screaming at opposing demonstrators holding an Israeli flag, “Go back to Poland!” and “Go back to Belarus!”
Video shows the offensive marcher, dressed in a bright yellow jacket, black baseball cap and black face mask, waving the Palestinian flag in front of several demonstrators, including those carrying a rolled-up Israeli flag, and hissing, “Get the hell out of here!
“Go back to Poland! Go back to Belarus!” the man bellows outside a gate to the Ivy League university’s campus on Amsterdam Avenue in Upper Manhattan, as the two opposing sides yell and film each other with their cell phones.
Jewish populations in both countries’ regions were decimated during the Holocaust.
The anti-Israel protesters were seen later that night chanting, blowing whistles and banging on drums and lighting green and red flares outside the gate.
Rabbi Elie Buechler urged Jewish students Sunday morning to return home, noting he does not believe the university’s law enforcement or the NYPD can guarantee the safety of Jewish students in the face of rising antisemitism.
