NYU students caught tearing down posters of missing Israeli children

By Jen Smith, Chief Reporter For Dailymail.Com

Published: 12:59 EDT, 17 October 2023 | Updated: 13:00 EDT, 17 October 2023

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Two young women have been filmed tearing down posters of Israeli children taken hostage by Hamas while another teen from Columbia University is facing hate crime charges for attacking a Jewish classmate with a broomstick. The two female students have not yet been named publicly and the school is yet to confirm whether they are currently enrolled.

They were filmed yesterday at Tisch Hall in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village, stripping clean a wall where students had plastered the faces of some of the hundreds of hostages taken by Hamas. The pair were filmed by Students Supporting Israel, a campus organization that is now demanding that the pair be excluded permanently. NYU has not commented on the video.

The footage, shared last night on social media, came as another student from a different liberal elite college was hit with hate crime charges for attacking a male, Jewish student with a broomstick. Maxwell Friedman, 19, who uses female pronouns, was a student at Columbia University until the incident last week. She attacked an unidentified male student as he put up his own posters to share the faces of the young children taken hostage by Hamas.

$According to police, Friedman fractured the male 24-year-old's finger, and verbally harassed him. Friedman has now been charged with assault and harassment as a hate crime. The two incidents are the latest in a string at liberal, elite colleges across New York City and the country in which students have overwhelmingly sided with Palestine since the October 7 attack by Hamas against Israel. Jewish students like those at NYU's Students Supporting Israel say the sustained sympathy for Palestine and refusal to acknowledge Israel's suffering by some make them feel unsafe on campus.$

According to police, Friedman fractured the male 24-year-old’s finger, and verbally harassed him. Friedman has now been charged with assault and harassment as a hate crime. The two incidents are the latest in a string at liberal, elite colleges across New York City and the country in which students have overwhelmingly sided with Palestine since the October 7 attack by Hamas against Israel. Jewish students like those at NYU’s Students Supporting Israel say the sustained sympathy for Palestine and refusal to acknowledge Israel’s suffering by some make them feel unsafe on campus.

‘Today, we witnessed two NYU students violently tearing down posters of kidnapped babies, mothers, and grandmothers hanging outside of NYU Buildings. ‘This was done in a laughing manner, exhibiting complete disregard for Jewish lives and Jewish safety. ‘WE FEEL UNSAFE AND THIS IS EXTREMELY UNSETTLING!!! If you are unwilling or unable to protect our safety as students of this institution, we will be left with no choice but to publicize this so others can exercise their voices and pocketbooks to protect us!’