{"id":2214086,"date":"2024-04-05T18:40:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T22:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rutgers-university-president-escorted-out-of-town-hall-by-police-as-student-protesters-take-over\/"},"modified":"2024-04-05T18:41:31","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T22:41:31","slug":"rutgers-university-president-escorted-out-of-town-hall-by-police-as-student-protesters-take-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rutgers-university-president-escorted-out-of-town-hall-by-police-as-student-protesters-take-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Rutgers University President removed by Police during Student Protest at Town Hall"},"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\">24<\/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%2Frutgers-university-president-escorted-out-of-town-hall-by-police-as-student-protesters-take-over%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=2214086&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--><p>During a Rutgers University\u200b town \u2063hall, \u2062Jewish students were targeted by anti-Israel protesters, urging them \u200dto &#8216;go back home&#8217; and hurling anti-Semitic \u2063insults. The\u200b chaos led to the \u2062school&#8217;s president, Jonathan Holloway, being\u200c escorted out by police. The event was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/foreign-research-no-reduction-in-all-cause-mortality-from-pfizer-and-moderna-covid-vaccines\/\" title=\"Foreign Research: No Reduction in All-Cause Mortality From Pfizer and Moderna COVID Vaccines\">cut short due<\/a>\u2062 to the\u200b disruption caused by the protesters \u2062chanting for the intifada to be globalized. Your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-pushes-for-federal-gov-to-pay-for-entire-cost-of-rebuilding-baltimore-bridge-but-says-it-will-take-some-time\/\" title=\"Biden advocates for federal government to cover full Baltimore Bridge reconstruction expenses, acknowledges it will be a lengthy process\">summary effectively captures<\/a> the key events that \u2064occurred during the Rutgers University\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-knows-he-messed-up-on-fracking-at-debate-and-is-now-doing-damage-control-the-daily-wire\/\" title=\"Joe Biden Knows He Messed Up On Fracking At Debate And Is Now Doing Damage Control | The Daily Wire\">town hall<\/a>,\u2064 highlighting the targeting of Jewish students by \u2063anti-Israel \u200bprotesters and the consequent removal of the school&#8217;s president, Jonathan Holloway, by police. The\u2062 disruption caused by the protesters chanting for the globalized intifada \u200bled to \u200dthe premature \u2062end of the\u200c event.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>Jewish Rutgers students told to &#8216;go back home&#8217; by anti-Israel protesters <\/h2>\n<figure><figcaption> \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t(Screenshot)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>A Rutgers University town hall descended into anarchy Thursday evening as anti-Israel students chanted demands to &#8220;globalize the intifada,&#8221; hurled anti-Semitic insults at Jewish students, and forced the school&#8217;s president to end the event early, according to videos of the event and attendees who spoke to the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>One video obtained by the <em>Free Beacon<\/em> shows the school&#8217;s president, Jonathan Holloway, escorted out by police after cutting short the event.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Globalize the intifada. Long live the intifada. Long live resistance. Resistance is justified when people are occupied,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bethanyshondark\/status\/1776080281927041395\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">chanted<\/a> the protesters. &#8220;We don&#8217;t want two states. We want 48. Displacing lives since &#8217;48. There&#8217;s nothing here to celebrate,&#8221; they declared in another <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bethanyshondark\/status\/1776080281927041395\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">chant<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rutgers President Escorted Out By Security After Town Hall Cut Short By Anti-Israel Protesters\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ekaivCd4uDo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Rutgers University did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday night&#8217;s disruption was caused primarily by two student groups, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rutgersejc\/?img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Endowment Justice Collective<\/a>\u2014a &#8220;coalition of Rutgers organizations advocating for an endowment fund that ISN&#8217;T invested in Israeli apartheid&#8221;\u2014and Students for Justice in Palestine at Rutgers-New Brunswick. The latter is carrying out a one-year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northjersey.com\/story\/news\/education\/2024\/01\/17\/rutgers-students-for-justice-in-palestine-reinstated-heres-why\/72247736007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">probation period<\/a> following an investigation into several violations of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/college-coach-quits-after-being-accused-of-making-microaggressive-comments-about-black-cheerleaders-hairstyle\/\" title=\"College Coach Quits After Being Accused Of Making \u2018Microaggressive Comments\u2019 About Black Cheerleader\u2019s Hairstyle\">university policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Gindi, a Syrian Jew and sophomore at Rutgers University who spoke to the <em>Free Beacon<\/em>, said that Jewish students wanted to hear what the university&#8217;s president had to say. Gindi said that after talking to police, Jewish students were told they could leave through the emergency exits. Nearly all of them did.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not going to let this mob take over my university. I&#8217;m not going to be told that we should leave through the emergency exits I refuse to. I refuse to be bullied by these people,&#8221; said Gindi.<\/p>\n<p>Gindi also commended Holloway for his support and refusal to end Rutgers&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rutgers.edu\/news\/rutgers-and-tel-aviv-university-enter-partnership-boost-research-collaboration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">partnership<\/a> with Tel Aviv University.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I and many other members of the Jewish community really appreciate President Holloway for standing up against this mob and not cowering to the calls to join in a boycott of Israel,&#8221; Gindi said. &#8220;I really respect that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Approximately 40 Jewish students\u2014who also had to be escorted out\u2014and 250 protesters were in attendance, Gindi told the <em>Free Beacon<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Another Jewish student who spoke to the <em>Free Beacon<\/em> and asked to remain anonymous said that Jewish students came to the town hall to learn what the school would do to address campus anti-Semitism, but instead they were left &#8220;shaking&#8221; and terrified.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jewish students came to the town hall to learn what President Holloway and Rutgers would do to address antisemitism at Rutgers,&#8221; said the student. &#8220;Instead of getting our answers, we were left shaking from another antisemitic incident. It was terrifying.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In another <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ezhermann\/status\/1776090442909532236\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video<\/a> captured by a student, protesters shouted at Rutgers Jewish students to &#8220;go back home.&#8221; Protesters also told attendees that Jerusalem is their capital, not Israel&#8217;s, and that Birthright Israel\u2014a <a href=\"https:\/\/rutgershillel.org\/israel\/birthright-israel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">program<\/a> offered through the school&#8217;s Hillel chapter for young adults of Jewish descent to visit Israel\u2014is not welcome on campus. Rutgers Hillel did not have a comment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Settlers, settlers, go back home. Palestine is ours alone,&#8221; the protesters chanted. &#8220;Jerusalem&#8217;s our capital. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free. Rutgers, Rutgers, you will see, Palestine will be free. \u2026 Rutgers, Rutgers, you will learn, Palestinians will return. We will free Palestine within our lifetime. \u2026 Say it loud, say it clear, we don&#8217;t want Birthright here.&#8221;\t<\/p>\n<p>Last week Jewish freshman Rivka Shafer&#8217;s face was plastered on flyers for an anti-Israel referendum at Rutgers. Schafer <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/03\/30\/us-news\/jewish-freshman-rivka-schafers-face-plastered-on-anti-israel-flyers-at-rutgers-in-act-of-unabated-antisemitism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> the <em>New York Post<\/em> that the flyers were posted in the dormitory where she lives. Schafer&#8217;s attorney, Cory Rothbort, who spoke to the <em>Free Beacon<\/em>, said that &#8220;it is open season on Jewish students.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rivka Schafer was targeted where she sleeps,&#8221; Rothbort said. &#8220;The message: &#8216;Don&#8217;t Support Israel\u2014you aren&#8217;t safe in your room.&#8217; At the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-equality-act-is-the-greatest-threat-to-religious-freedom-in-our-lifetime-we-must-stand-against-it\/\" title=\"The \u2018Equality Act\u2019 Is The Greatest Threat To Religious Freedom In Our Lifetime. We Must Stand Against It.\">town hall meeting<\/a>, the message to Jewish students was similar: &#8216;You aren&#8217;t safe anywhere at Rutgers.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-Israel protesters at a Rutgers University town hall targeted Jewish students, telling them to &#8216;go back home.&#8217; The chaotic scene included chants urging to &#8216;globalize the intifada&#8217; and anti-Semitic insults directed at Jewish attendees. 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