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[Behind the Aegis]

2. I try to do my part by educating people.

I refuse to stay silent in regards to anti-Semitism, no matter the side, and I talk about the Holocaust when I can. As we marvel at the numbers of people who don't know what the Holocaust was, how many of the victims were Jews, we are also watching people deny it ever happened, trying to "scale down" the actual impact, or even "re-direct" when the discussion is about Jews ("won't somebody please think of the others&quot .

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EXCLUSIVE W/Video: Shocking Anti-Semitism During Holocaust Remembrance Day at Columbia U

When members of Columbia’s Students Supporting Israel campus group set up a memorial booth on April 11th, for Holocaust Remembrance Day, honoring the 6 million Jews who died at the hands of the Nazis, the memorial was disrupted by the screaming chants of anti-Israel protesters.


The table for the commemoration of Holocaust Memorial Day had testimonials from Holocaust survivors as well as memorial candles laid out. After an hour in which Jewish students shared the stories of holocaust survivors, a large group of anti-Israel protests gathered across the plaza from the SSI table.


The protestors, a coalition of groups that make up Columbia University’s Apartheid and Divest student group, stood on Columbia’s College Walk chanting, “From Gaza to the plaza, globalize the Intifada!” This was followed by more violent chants such as, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!” These slogans, call for the ethnic cleansing of the Jews and the destruction of the state of Israel.


Shocked and sickened to the core, Jewish students persisted with their event by reminding those who passed by both that today was Holocaust Memorial Day, and that Jews must continue to fight anti-Semitism wherever it appears.

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