Jewish students confront extreme anti-Semitism at Columbia protest camp

Outside the gates of Columbia University on Friday afternoon, a man wearing a black balaclava was shouting about Jews.
Security guards, employed to guard the entrance after pro-Palestine students set up an “encampment” at the university in protest of the war in Gaza, looked unmoved by the man’s rant.
“Jews have total control of everything. Inflation is a result of greedy Wall Street Jews,” he shouted, holding a banner depicting an Israeli flag soaked in blood and the word “Nazis”.
“Jews control America. What is happening in Gaza is the result of Jews controlling America.”
Hezzy Segal, a 20-year-old Jewish student who wears a kippah, approached him to disagree.
“Excuse me-” he began, before the man shouted back: “Get the f- away from me. I’m not here to answer your Jew questions. America is controlled by Jews.”
The man gave a false name to The Telegraph and said he would not remove his balaclava because “you got to hide your f-ing face to avoid these Jews”.
The incident - as shocking as it was - is not the worst recent example of anti-Semitism on and around university campuses.
As the Columbia protest spread to universities across the country, and then the Western world, it left a disquieting quantity of hate speech in its wake.
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