Antisemitism on campus surges as agitators take over Columbia, Yale universities

Former Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg on Friday ripped anti-Israeli protesters who are demonstrating at college campuses throughout the nation. 

Speaking on “America’s Newsroom” Sandberg said that some of those taking part in the protests
are participating in hateful acts which do not constitute free speech. 

“What’s going on [in] our university campuses is really not okay,” said Sandberg, the founder of “Lean In” and former chief operating officer of Facebook. 

“I’m a big believer in free speech… university is a time when you go to college. You can talk about any issue, open dialog.” 

“But when you see students yelling at the Columbia campus to a Jewish student, ‘Go back to Poland.’ When you see someone saying October 7th is going to happen to you. You had someone on your show who got her eye almost poked out at Yale, that’s not okay.” 

“And the truth is, the disorder on campus, having places where people don’t feel safe, that doesn’t lend itself to real dialog about hard issues, that stops the honest conversations we need to have. College campuses need to keep our kids safe.” 

Sandberg was discussing her new documentary called “Screams Before Silence,” which details the harrowing accounts of victims and first responders during the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks where acts of rape and other sexual violence were committed against Jewish women. 

Sandberg said that anyone who watches her documentary would come to the conclusion that sexual assault was part of the terrorists’ plan and that sexual violence is a tool of war. 

“I think the world needs to see and acknowledge what happened here,” Sandberg said. 

Sandberg said that her documentary and her plight to raise awareness about the sexual violence of the Hamas attacks are the most significant projects of her career. 

“This has become the most important work of my life because, in this moment, we lose too much if we turn a blind eye to sexual violence and to the threat that this poses,” Sandberg said. 

“The terrorists here aren’t subtle, they say ‘we’re coming back,’ that ‘October 7th was just the beginning.’ They don’t just say ‘death to Israel,’ they say ‘death to America.’”  

“This is a threat to our democracy and our way of life and people need to see clearly what happened and I think sexual violence really brings that home.” 

Sandberg has been attempting to highlight the brutality of the Oct. 7 attacks since they occurred. 

At an event hosted by Israel at the United Nations headquarters In December, Sandberg called out women’s organizations for being silent on the issue—with Sandberg saying, “Silence is complicity.” 

“The sad truth is, almost all of the victims of this sexual violence are dead, they are gone,” Sandberg said Friday.

 “We have just a few people who are alive to tell their story, but we have first responders telling the story.”