{"id":215834,"date":"2023-10-26T00:23:07","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T00:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bestwnews.com\/?p=215834"},"modified":"2023-10-26T00:23:07","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T00:23:07","slug":"jewish-students-hide-in-nycs-cooper-union-amid-pro-palestine-demo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bestwnews.com\/world-news\/jewish-students-hide-in-nycs-cooper-union-amid-pro-palestine-demo\/","title":{"rendered":"Jewish students hide in NYC&apos;s Cooper Union amid pro-Palestine demo"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Jewish students take refuge in library and lock themselves in while pro-Palestinian demonstrators POUND on the door to gain entry at NYC&#8217;s liberal Cooper Union college<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>A group of Jewish students in New York City locked themselves in the library of Cooper Union college to escape a braying pro-Palestine crowd<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Chanting: &#8216;Free, free, Palestine,&#8217; the mob banged on the door while the scared-looking Jewish students stood nervously inside the library<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>No one was injured, and the crowd has been dispersed: the Jewish students left safely and the library reopened after 20 minutes<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A group of Jewish students were forced to flee a braying mob of pro-Palestine activists inside a New York City college on Wednesday, locking themselves in a library while the crowd hammered on the door.<\/p>\n<p>Ugly scenes unfolded at Cooper Union, a liberal college near Astor Place in Manhattan, on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>A crowd chanting &#8216;Free, free Palestine&#8217; were initially held in the lobby of the building.<\/p>\n<p>But they barged past a security guard, who yelled, hopelessly: &#8216;No!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>They then stormed up the stairs and hammered on the door of the library, where the Jewish students had taken refuge. The people inside the library were later freed.<\/p>\n<p>No one was injured, and the protest has been dispersed, The Messenger\u00a0reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An NYPD source told DailyMail.com no arrests have been made.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/26\/00\/77008283-12673287-image-a-27_1698276098590.jpg\" height=\"359\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>A pro-Palestine mob is seen on Wednesday barging past a security guard, yelling: &#8216;Free, free Palestine&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/26\/00\/77008265-12673287-Upstairs_a_group_of_Jewish_students_had_taken_refuge_in_the_libr-m-31_1698276209185.jpg\" height=\"765\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Upstairs, a group of Jewish students had taken refuge in the library: the mob can be heard pounding on the door<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/26\/00\/77008651-12673287-image-a-32_1698276862662.jpg\" height=\"845\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Cooper Union, on Astor Place in the heart of Manhattan, was rocked by a pro-Palestine protest on Wednesday<\/p>\n<p>Outside the college on Wednesday evening, a passerby could be seen tearing away a pro-Palestine sign, which was placed next to the posters highlighting the plight of those kidnapped by Hamas.<\/p>\n<p><span>The sign said: &#8216;Killing children is justified???&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>NYPD officers could be seen entering the building, and were standing outside.<\/p>\n<p>DailyMail.com has approached Cooper Union for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kim Newman, a spokesperson for the college, told The Messenger the library was temporarily &#8216;closed&#8217; as the protesters marched through the building.<\/p>\n<p>She said that all students have been &#8216;dispersed.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The library was closed for approximately 20 minutes while student protestors moved through our building,&#8217; she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Some students who were previously in the library remained during this time. All students have now dispersed.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/26\/00\/77008765-12673287-image-a-1_1698277065043.jpg\" height=\"845\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Posters calling for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip are seen lying on the ground beside posters calling for the release of the 200 hostages currently held by Hamas<\/p>\n<p>The student protest comes amid intense tension on campuses nationwide over the Israel-Hamas war.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Academics have waded in: a geneticist at Washington University\u00a0in Missouri sparked outrage by claiming that Israel was carrying out a &#8216;much needed cleansing&#8217; in Gaza, while a law professor at Berkeley called on law firms not to hire &#8216;my anti-Semitic students&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, a climate scientist teaching at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago issued a groveling apology after calling Israelis &#8216;pigs&#8217;, &#8216;savages&#8217; and &#8216;irredeemable excrement.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Mika Tosca, who describes herself on social media as &#8216;Chicago&#8217;s radically optimistic transsexual climate scientist&#8217;, published a screed on her Instagram Story on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Israelis are pigs. Savages,&#8217; she wrote. &#8216;Very bad people. Irredeemable excrement.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>She apologized on Wednesday, saying the rejected her own words, and wanted to retract them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Yesterday I wrote some things on my Instagram Story that I unequivocally reject and do not stand behind,&#8217; she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I am deeply sorry for writing what I wrote, and for hurting many people with my words, and I am especially sorry to Israeli people that I broadly placed at fault for the war.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;You did not &#8211; and do not &#8211; deserve that, and I was wrong to post what I posted: I know that my words perpetuated harmful stereotypes.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>At Harvard University, the Palestinian Solidarity Committee has been condemned for issuing a letter on October 7, co-signed by 33 other Harvard student organizations, stating: &#8216;We, the undersigned student organizations, hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Some of the signatories have been named and shamed, and billionaire financier Bill Ackman is demanding that companies refuse to hire them.<\/p>\n<p>Harvard&#8217;s president has apologized for the statement, and said it does not represent the views of the university.<\/p>\n<p>Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania are both scrambling to limit the fallout: The schools could lose $487 million in funding, based on current and prior donations by those now speaking out against the students for defending Hamas&#8217; attacks.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, a Cornell University professor in upstate New York who called the Hamas\u00a0terror attacks &#8216;exhilarating and energizing&#8217; announced he has taken a leave of absence, and will not return to class for the remainder of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Russell Rickford told an October 15 rally at Ithaca Commons, the downtown shopping district in the city,\u00a0that he was thrilled by Hamas&#8217; October 7 attack on Israel, in which 1,400 Israelis were killed.<\/p>\n<p>His words were met by anger, and Rickford, a history professor, attempted to explain &#8211; and doubled down on his outrageous views.<\/p>\n<p>He said he condemned the killing of any civilians, but said he was angered by &#8216;the injustice and the hypocrisy of Western support in celebration of Israeli war crimes, and the equation of any form of Palestinian resistance with terrorism.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Rickford later apologized, saying on October 18 that he was sorry &#8216;for the horrible choice of words that I used&#8217;, and calling his language &#8216;reprehensible&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/25\/21\/76638765-12668221-A_Cornell_professor_with_a_history_of_radical_left_wing_views_ca-m-26_1698264046231.jpg\" height=\"550\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>A Cornell professor with a history of radical left-wing views called the Hamas terror attacks in Israel &#8216;exhilarating&#8217; and &#8216;energizing&#8217; at a pro-Palestine rally on October 15. He apologized on October 18, but on October 20 announced he was taking a leave of absence<\/p>\n<p>Tamika Nunley, an associate professor of history, will fill in for him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Professor Rickford will be taking a leave of absence and I will assume teaching responsibilities for this course for the remainder of the semester,&#8217; she wrote on October 20, in an email obtained by The Cornell Review.<\/p>\n<p>The university confirmed he would not be teaching for the remainder of the semester.<\/p>\n<p><span>&#8216;Professor Russell Rickford has requested and received approval to take a leave of absence from the university,&#8217; the university&#8217;s spokesperson said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Claudia Tenney, a Republican congresswoman whose district borders that of Cornell, said Rickford&#8217;s leave of absence was insufficient, and he needed to resign.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Since I sent a letter to Cornell President Martha Pollack demanding that Professor Russell Rickford resign for his anti-Semitic comments, he has taken a leave of absence,&#8217; 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