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Columbia student describes campus fear, anti-Israel signs supporting terrorists who ‘put babies in an oven’ [Video]

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As Columbia University officials continue to negotiate with a group of anti-Israel agitators who set up tents on a lawn at the heart of campus, Jewish and Israeli students say the presence and the aggression of the protesters has them afraid to walk through the area after sundown.

“I’ve had a friend who was beaten up,” said Itai Driefuss, a third-year Columbia undergrad and Israeli military veteran from Tel Aviv. “It’s scary. It’s violent.”

He pointed to a confrontation over the weekend where he said anti-Israel agitators confronted a group of counter-demonstrators who support the alliance between the U.S. and Israel.

“You had Jewish people holding up the American and Israeli flag, and people were holding up a sign that says, ‘Al-Quds next target,'” he said, referring to the militant Al-Quds Brigades, a Palestinian terror group aligned with Hamas. “It’s the same people who do bus bombings and rape women and put babies in an …

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