Israeli professor’s online lecture to NY college disrupted with shouts of ‘kill all the Jews’

An Israeli law professor’s online lecture to a New York City college this week was disrupted by shouted slurs such as, “Kill all the Jews,” and, “Go back to Auschwitz,” The New York Times reports.

The event was held over Zoom and hosted by Queens College, part of the New York City public university system. It was open to the public, the report says.

The professor, Yofi Tirosh, was delivering a lecture on the rights of women and sexual minorities in Israel.

“There’s nothing for Palestinians in this protest,” she tells The Times. “It doesn’t do anything for the cause of ending the war.”

The college condemns the incident and is investigating.

Queens College is home to large student populations of Jews and Muslims. There were flare-ups over the conflict earlier in the Gaza war, but the campus has generally been calm and its administration has been praised by Jewish groups, including the ADL.

There is widespread anti-Israel activism on New York campuses that Jews say spills into antisemitism, but outright Jew-hatred is relatively rare.