{"id":2236859,"date":"2024-05-03T19:18:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T23:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jewish-student-needs-police-escort-to-enter-mit-anti-israel-encampment\/"},"modified":"2024-05-03T19:19:10","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T23:19:10","slug":"jewish-student-needs-police-escort-to-enter-mit-anti-israel-encampment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jewish-student-needs-police-escort-to-enter-mit-anti-israel-encampment\/","title":{"rendered":"Jewish Student Requires Police Escort for Access to MIT Anti-Israel Protest Site"},"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%2Fjewish-student-needs-police-escort-to-enter-mit-anti-israel-encampment%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=2236859&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>In Cambridge, Massachusetts,\u200d a Jewish <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/no-spike-in-florida-coronavirus-cases-despite-no-mask-mandate\/\" title=\"No Spike in Florida Coronavirus Cases Despite No Mask Mandate\">university<\/a> student required police assistance to access MIT&#8217;s anti-Israel encampment. Despite resistance and intimidation, the student, Shabbos Kestenbaum, stood firm, asserting his right to enter and speak out against anti-Semitism. The incident underscores the challenges faced by Jewish individuals in\u200c expressing their views on sensitive\u200d issues like the Israeli-Palestinian \u2063conflict.  <\/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<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">CAMBRIDGE, Mass. \u2014 A Jewish university student needed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-fox-news-reporter-escorted-out-of-stop-the-steal-protest-by-police-as-crowd-chants-fox-news-sucks\/\" title=\"WATCH: Fox News Reporter Escorted Out of Stop the Steal Protest By Police As Crowd Chants \u2018Fox News Sucks\u2019\">police escort<\/a> to enter the Massachusetts Institute of Technology\u2019s anti-Israel encampment on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shabbos Kestenbaum, a student at Harvard Divinity School, spoke at a pro-Israel rally across the street from the encampment hosted by the Israeli American Council before deciding to cross the street and enter the encampment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kestenbaum walked up to the encampment and was denied entry by a keffiyeh-wearing man blocking the perimeter of the protest. Police eventually agreed to escort him into the encampment, according to video taken by The Daily Wire. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI want to let all of you know that you\u2019re not going to intimidate Jewish people,\u201d he told the campers. \u201cYou can hide behind your masks as long as you want, we will not be scared.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Anti-Israel protester at MIT: &#8220;Respectfully, we do not trust your intentions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jewish student: &#8220;Respectfully, f*** off!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Watch a Jewish student fight to enter MIT&#8217;s anti-Israel encampment. Police eventually agree to give him an escort. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lKeXr829TW\">pic.twitter.com\/lKeXr829TW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDailyWire\/status\/1786513699903008780?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 3, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cAll of you should be ashamed of yourselves,\u201d he added. \u201cThis is the state of being Jewish in America, I need police to exercise my First Amendment right.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Kestenbaum is a student at Harvard University, but spoke at the MIT counter-demonstration in support of Jewish <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cdc-director-schools-are-safe-places-for-kids-during-pandemic\/\" title=\"CDC Director: Schools Are Safe Places for Kids During Pandemic\">students<\/a> there.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cAfter delivering a speech imploring Jewish students not to be afraid of their antisemitic classmates, I crossed the road to exercise my First Amendment rights and enter the pro-Hamas encampments,\u201d Kestenbaum told The Daily Wire. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cProtestors formed a human chain to keep me out, and initially refused to allow me in even after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tenn-police-still-searching-for-17-year-old-kidnapped-by-dad\/\" title=\"Tenn. police still searching for 17-year-old kidnapped by dad\">police asked<\/a> them to,\u201d he added. \u201cEventually, I required a personal police escort to walk through the encampment, all the while being followed by pro-Hamas terrorist students.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kestenbaum, along with other Harvard University students <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/jewish-students-sue-harvard-for-failing-to-stop-anti-semitism-while-threatening-discipline-for-fatphobia\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">filed a lawsuit<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  against the Ivy League in January, accusing it of selectively enforcing its policies to avoid protecting Jewish students from harassment and enabling anti-Semitism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWhether it\u2019s Harvard, MIT, Columbia, or anywhere else, antisemitic thugs have taken over college campuses,\u201d Kestenbaum said. \u201cThey have no respect for the First Amendment or religious freedom and should be immediately thrown out of any university they currently illegally occupy.\u201d<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/05\/IMG_7389.heic\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">MIT erected fences around the encampment ahead of the pro-Israel rally across the street and had a heavy police presence on Friday afternoon near the encampment. Outside of the encampment, Jewish demonstrators sang songs, and waved American and Israeli flags.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Many pro-Israel and pro-America flags were hung on the new fences around the encampment, as well as signs mocking the encampment. One such sign read, \u201cIn this camp they believe: Propaganda is truth, resistance is justified, rape is resistance, harassment is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/project-veritas-strips-cnn-naked\/\" title=\"Project Veritas Strips CNN Naked\">free speech<\/a>, Israelis are not human, martydom is glorious.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Inside the encampment, students had many of their own signs, including labels on tents with locations in Israel including Tzfat, Jaffa, and Haifa. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Cambridge, Massachusetts, a Jewish university student, Shabbos Kestenbaum from Harvard Divinity School, required a police escort to access the anti-Israel encampment at MIT. Prior to this, Shabbos spoke at a pro-Israel rally organized by the Israeli American Council across the street before crossing over<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3030,"featured_media":2236860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/05\/Cover-images-23.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2236859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/05\/Cover-images-23.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236859","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\/3030"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2236859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2236860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2236859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2236859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2236859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}