'F**k Israel, long live the Intifada' angry mob screams at Jewish UC student

Second-year Eliana Kopley was attempting to enter the showing of the Israeli documentary "Beneath the Helmet" about the IDF when a crowd of protesters physically obstructed her.

By HANNAH BROAD
Updated: MAY 23, 2016 06:55
Demonstrators step on the national flag during an anti-Israel protest in front of the Israeli Embassy in Bangkok last year. (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)
Demonstrators step on the national flag during an anti-Israel protest in front of the Israeli Embassy in Bangkok last year.
(photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)
An angry anti-Israel mob at the University of California at Irvine chased a Jewish student into a building while chanting anti-Semitic epithets after she tried to attend a campus screening of an Israeli documentary last Wednesday, the Observer reported.
Second-year Eliana Kopley was attempting to enter the showing of the Israeli documentary "Beneath the Helmet" about the IDF when a crowd of protesters physically obstructed her and chased her into an adjacent building.
The angry mob proceeded to pound intimidatingly on the windows and doors while shouting "Long live the Intifada!" and "F**k Israel!"
Kopley called the police, who escorted her safely into the film screening amidst the angry rhetoric of the activists. In spite of arriving safely to the event, Kopley was overwhelmed by the trauma of the incident and became emotional.
In contrast to the Kopley's response to the irate horde of protesters, the UC Irvine campus group Students for Justice in Palestine lauded the mob's behavior and labeled their intimidation techniques a success.
Academic centers across the United States have seen an uptick in increasingly vehement anti-Israel sentiment, particularly in California.
In 2015, more than 30 organizations, including Jewish fraternity AEPI, the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Zionist Organization of America wrote to University of California regent Bruce D. Varner in July, requesting that substantive measures be taken to combat rising anti-Semitism on UC-affiliated campuses.
“For years, Jewish students have been subjected to anti-Semitism. For years, we have been forced to wear the badges of our politicized identities. For years, UC administrators have allowed anti-Semitism to go unchecked. For years, we have suffered in silence. But we endure in silence no more,” a group of students at Friday’s meeting said in a joint statement to the regents.