Protesters at Baruch College Call to ‘Bring the War Home’ at Rally Targeting Campus Hillel
26th August 2024
A small group of protesters gathered outside Baruch College in New York called for “war” in the United States and targeted the college’s Hillel Jewish student club, a further sign of escalating rhetoric on campus just ahead of the semester beginning on Wednesday.
On Saturday, the demonstrators held a banner that said “Bring the war home” alongside an image of an assault rifle, and a sign that said, “Let the intifada pave the way for people’s war.”
In an Instagram post about the protest, Baruch’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine called for the “construction of militant resistance to imperialism in all its manifestations.” The post about the protest was shared widely by other pro-Palestinian groups on campuses across the City University of New York public college system.