Jewish CUNY students berated by masked anti-Israel protesters who blocked entrance of kosher deli, hurled racist remarks at them
A group of Jewish students from CUNY’s City College were berated and told to “go back to Brooklyn” by anti-Israel protesters outside a kosher deli in Midtown South.
Moti Zilber, the owᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚner of the Mr. Broadway Deli on West 38th Street, said the Jewish students were enjoying their meal Tuesday morning when the protesters descended upon the restaurant, blocking the entrance and shouting vulgarities at them.
“It was very scary,” Zilber told The Post. “It feels like we’re in Germany over here.”
Clips of the protest, uploaded by the Safe Campus Jewish advocacy group, show th🥀e masked demonstrators marching up and down in front of the restaurant as they chanted antisemitic slogans at the students.
“Back to Brooklyn, out the Middle East,” the protesters could be heard yelling, stereotyping the students while referencing the war in Gaza.
Zilber said the protesters also shouted other antisemitic phrases at the students, including “From the river to the sea.”
“They yelled all kinds of racist things at the students,” Zilber said. “These were young, violent kids who you can’t even talk to.”
The NYPD said it received a call from the restaurant arouꦐnd 9:30 a.m., with the demonstrators evඣentually dispersing without further incident.
City College said the incident occurred as its students were meeting up with other Jewish students with Hillel Internationaꦅl, the world’s largest Jewish campus organization.
CUNY officials did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.
The incident comes as college protests over the war in Gaza have resumed in New York City, with dozens of anti-Israel demonstrators taking to the Columbia University campus on Tuesday to mark a chaotic sta💖rt to the new school year.
The rowdy demonstrators formed a picket line and banged drums at the Ivy League school’s Morningside Heights campus, with the NYPD arresting two people protesting at Columbia’s sister school Barnard College.
Columbia, which had become the focal point of the nationwide college protests, had recently published its antisemitism report, which highlighted the spread of hateful rhetoric aimed at Jewish students on caꦇmpus following the start of the war in Gaza.
