{"id":2091495,"date":"2023-11-06T05:31:02","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T10:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harvard-law-student-says-pal-at-anti-israel-protest-was-protecting-her-from-aggressive-jew\/"},"modified":"2023-11-06T05:33:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T10:33:39","slug":"harvard-law-student-says-pal-at-anti-israel-protest-was-protecting-her-from-aggressive-jew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harvard-law-student-says-pal-at-anti-israel-protest-was-protecting-her-from-aggressive-jew\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard Law Student Claims Friend Protected Her from &#8216;Aggressive&#8217; Individual at Anti-Israel Protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fharvard-law-student-says-pal-at-anti-israel-protest-was-protecting-her-from-aggressive-jew%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2091495&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<h2>Israeli student jeopardizes safety of peaceful protestors, claims Harvard&#8217;s Aashna \u2064Avachat<\/h2>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/4-intellectuals-who-started-out-liberal-but-ended-up-conservative\/\" title=\"4 Intellectuals Who Started Out Liberal But Ended Up Conservative\">fellow law student<\/a> at Harvard University has defended the actions\u2064 of a student who confronted an Israeli student \u2063during a campus protest, \u2062stating that the \u200cIsraeli \u200dposed a\u2063 risk to the &#8220;peaceful protestors.&#8221; Aashna Avachat, a second-year Harvard \u2063Law student who participated in the protest, made these claims in a series of social media posts.<\/p>\n<p>Avachat was supporting her classmate, Ibrahim Bharmal, who was captured on video grabbing and confronting the Israeli student\u200b during the protest\u2064 on October 18.\u200d Bharmal is an\u2063 editor of the Harvard Law Review.<\/p>\n<p>According to Avachat, Bharmal \u200bwas protecting anti-Israel demonstrators from a student who was filming their activities and \u200cputting them at risk. Avachat also alleged that the Israeli student was masked to hide his identity, although later evidence showed that he was not wearing a\u200b mask. While the Israeli student did\u200c not physically touch the protesters, Avachat claimed that he\u2063 came close to doing so.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ibrahim was present as \u200da safety\u200c marshal and stood in\u2063 front of the masked student to protect OUR safety. The student was taking \u2064invasive photos and\u2064 getting in\u200d our faces,&#8221; Avachat wrote in one post. &#8220;Beyond the aggressive behavior from counterprotestors, this die-in\u2063 was entirely peaceful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I was at\u200d this protest. Ibrahim was present as a\u2062 safety marshal and stood in front \u200cof the masked student\u200d to protect OUR safety. The student was taking\u2063 invasive photos and getting in our faces. In the video, you \u200bcan see Ibrahim has both hands on his keffiyeh at all times. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YpMELWrv6C\">https:\/\/t.co\/YpMELWrv6C<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Aashna (@axshna) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/axshna\/status\/1719895730423320604?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 2, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Ibrahim was standing in between a masked student who was trying\u2062 to harass peaceful\u2062 demonstrators,&#8221; she said in another post. &#8220;This student was taking photos of us two\u2062 inches from\u200d our faces, stepping over and nearly stepping on us, for the explicit purpose of doxxing students. That, by its very\u200d nature, is harassment and \u200dthreatened our safety.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This post \u200bis so misleading. Caught\u200c on camera confronting and blocking a \u200bJewish student from walking on campus? Ibrahim was standing in between a masked student who was trying to \u200bharass peaceful\u200d demonstrators. For a writer, you must do better with your words. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sRox3KLT3v\">https:\/\/t.co\/sRox3KLT3v<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Aashna (@axshna) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/axshna\/status\/1719931320329961812?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 2, \u20642023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">this student was taking photos of \u200cus two inches from our faces, stepping over and nearly stepping on \u200bus, for the explicit purpose of doxxing students. that,\u200b by its very nature, is harassment and threatened our safety.\u2064 safety marshals intervened without touching the student. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/p4rpWPyZk9\">https:\/\/t.co\/p4rpWPyZk9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Aashna (@axshna) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/axshna\/status\/1720176683007828336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 2,\u2064 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Avachat&#8217;s posts are the latest in a series of defenses from the Harvard community regarding Bharmal\u2064 and\u200b fellow graduate student Elom Tettey-Tamaklo, who was \u2063also filmed confronting the \u200dIsraeli student. \u2064In videos obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, Bharmal, Tettey-Tamaklo, and other attendees wearing keffiyehs surrounded\u2063 the Israeli\u200d student, shouting &#8220;SHAME!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><video id=\"video-1820979-1\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/s2.freebeacon.com\/up\/2023\/10\/Protest_blur.mp4?_=1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Protest_blur.mp4\">https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Protest_blur.mp4<\/a><\/source><\/video><\/p>\n<p>Harvard has not addressed the incident beyond a statement from Harvard Business\u2064 School\u200d dean Srikant Datar, who vaguely referred to a &#8220;troubling confrontation between one of our MBA students and \u2062a subset of the \u2064protestors.&#8221;\u200d The school \u200ddid, \u2063however, remove Tettey-Tamaklo&#8217;s online bio, as reported\u2063 by the Free Beacon, and announced the formation of a task force to assist student protesters whose names were made public after blaming Israel for a terrorist \u2064attack by Hamas on October 7.<\/p>\n<p>Avachat, who did not respond \u2062to a\u200d request for comment, works as an editorial assistant at MacMillan Publishers and is passionate\u200b about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mother-of-punk-who-allegedly-recorded-heartless-hit-and-run-on-retired-police-chief-blames-media-lies-says-truth-will-come-out\/\" title=\"Mother of Punk Who Allegedly Recorded Heartless Hit-and-Run on Retired Police Chief Blames Media Lies, Says 'Truth' Will Come Out\">amplifying marginalized voices<\/a> in publishing. Her personal website, archived version available, identifies her as the editor of Study Break, a young adult college anthology coming Winter\u200d 2023 from Feiwel &#038; Friends \/ Macmillan.<\/p>\n<p>Avachat is\u200c also listed \u200cas \u200da Harvard Youth Advocacy and Policy Lab fellow, where she gains deep expertise\u200c in racial justice to \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harvard-law-student-says-pal-at-anti-israel-protest-was-protecting-her-from-aggressive-jew\/\" title=\"Harvard Law Student Claims Friend Protected Her from 'Aggressive' Individual at Anti-Israel Protest\">change\u2062 inequitable youth-facing legal<\/a> \u2064and social systems.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to defending Bharmal, Avachat has shared posts from congresswoman Cori Bush and others that criticize the criticism of anti-Semitic\u200b representatives Ilhan\u2063 Omar and\u200b Rashida \u2062Tlaib, as well as posts\u200c that call for the &#8220;deprogramming&#8221; of \u200bthose influenced by \u2063&#8221;zionist indoctrination.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Examples of\u200c such indoctrination include the claim\u200c that Hamas wants to &#8220;kill all Jews,&#8221; which the author of the post attempted to rebut by \u200dquoting Hamas&#8217;s 2017 \u200dcharter. During their assault \u200bon the Jewish state \u2062on October 7, Hamas terrorists expressed joy\u200d as they killed innocent women and children, with one boasting to his parents about killing Jews.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I killed her and I killed her husband,&#8221; the terrorist said. &#8220;I killed 10 with \u200dmy own hands! \u2064Dad,\u2064 10 with my own hands!&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> What is Aashna\u2064 Avachat&#8217;s claim \u200cregarding Ibrahim Bharmal&#8217;s actions at the protest?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Israeli student jeopardizes safety\u2063 of peaceful protestors, claims Harvard&#8217;s Aashna Avachat<\/p>\n<p>A recent\u200c incident at Harvard University has ignited a \u2064fiery debate about the actions \u200bof \u2062a student who confronted an Israeli student during a campus protest. Aashna Avachat, a second-year Harvard Law student who participated in the protest,\u2064 is \u2064defending her classmate Ibrahim Bharmal, who was captured on video grabbing and confronting the Israeli student.<\/p>\n<p>Avachat claims \u200bthat Bharmal \u200bwas merely protecting anti-Israel demonstrators from a student who was filming their activities\u2063 and\u2064 potentially putting them in danger. She also alleged that the Israeli \u200dstudent was masked to hide \u2063his \u200didentity,\u200c although later\u200d evidence disproved this\u200d claim. While the \u200dIsraeli student \u2063did not\u2062 physically\u200c touch the \u2062protesters, Avachat argued that he came dangerously close to doing so.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ibrahim was present as \u2063a safety marshal and stood in front of the masked student to protect\u2064 OUR\u200b safety. The student \u200bwas taking invasive photos and getting in our\u200b faces,&#8221; Avachat wrote in one\u2062 social \u200dmedia \u200bpost.\u2062 &#8220;Beyond the aggressive behavior from counterprotestors, this die-in was entirely peaceful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Avachat&#8217;s posts on social media are just the latest in a series of defenses from the Harvard community \u200cregarding Bharmal and \u200chis fellow graduate student Elom \u200cTettey-Tamaklo, who was also filmed \u200bconfronting the Israeli student. In videos obtained by the Washington Free Beacon,\u200d Bharmal, Tettey-Tamaklo, and other attendees wearing keffiyehs can be seen surrounding\u200c the Israeli student and shouting &#8220;SHAME!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The incident has sparked \u200ca wider discussion about the limits \u2062of free speech on campus and the protection of peaceful protest.\u200c While \u200bit\u2063 is clear that tensions \u200dwere\u2062 high and emotions were running strong during the demonstration, it is important to address these issues in\u2063 a \u2063fair and\u2062 balanced manner.<\/p>\n<p>The right to peacefully protest\u2064 and express \u200bdissenting opinions should be safeguarded \u2062on college campuses. However, \u200bit is\u200c equally important\u200d to respect the \u2063rights and safety of all individuals, including\u2063 those who may hold opposing views. Resorting to physical confrontation or intimidation tactics undermines the principles of open dialogue and respectful debate.<\/p>\n<p>In order to foster an environment of \u2064intellectual growth and understanding, it is necessary for universities to educate their students on \u200ceffective methods of peaceful \u200bprotest and constructive engagement. This includes respecting the boundaries and dignities of \u2064others while\u200d still\u200b voicing one&#8217;s opinion.<\/p>\n<p>While the \u200bincident at Harvard may have generated controversy and conflicting narratives, it serves as a reminder of the ongoing\u200d challenges universities face in maintaining a balance between freedom of expression and \u2063ensuring the safety and \u2063well-being of their students. It\u2064 is crucial for\u200b institutions of\u200b higher learning to address these \u2064issues head-on\u200d and strive for an\u2064 atmosphere of inclusivity, tolerance, and respectful discourse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard law student, defended the act of confronting an Israeli student during a campus &#8220;die-in.&#8221; Avachat claimed that the Jewish student&#8217;s filming endangered the safety of the peaceful protestors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":2091496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2091495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2091495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2091496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2091495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2091495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2091495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}