Thursday, March 07, 2024
Terrified Jewish students flee campus after abuse from 100-strong mob
Terrified Jewish students are fleeing Exeter University campus after being surrounded and abused by a mob of 100 students while manning an Israel stall.
The Jewish students said they were were left feeling "broken" by the experience, during which one members of the crowd shouted that they had "killed" her brother.
Third-year International Relations student, Rojin-Sena Cantay, who helped put the information stall together in the university forum on Wednesday, said: "It was our first stall since October 7, we wanted to put the other side to students who have been protesting for Palestine every week.
"Instead, we were harassed and abused.
"Fruit squash was aimed at the Israeli flag on the stall, and it went all over my coat. It was red Robinson's squash, I think they wanted to make it look like the flag had blood on it, but it didn't work, it went all over us instead."
Shortly after the stall went up between 2 and 3.30 pm a crowd started gathering to harass the Jewish students.
"Pictures were being taken that would have been sent all over student WhatsApp groups," Cantay alleged, and more and more anti-Israel students arrived to surround the stall.
The group felt trapped, "we didn't know if we could leave, we were surrounded".
On the table were several fliers that provided information on the conflict, but Cantay said that students "ripped them up and threw them in our face."
Cantay went on, "They referred to us as 'you' while referring to the actions of Israel, blaming us for the actions of a state thousands of miles away.
"I had a woman come into my face and scream that I killed her brother. I told her, 'I haven't killed your brother, Hamas killed your brother'."
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