Coverage of an anti-Israel rally at an American university left a journalist cornered by radicals threatening her with legal action as the demanded personal information, including her ethnicity.
Thursday, Fox News video journalist Kassy Dillon attended a “pro-Palestinian” demonstration at the University of Massachusetts Amherst where those gathered pushed for a “day of resistance” following the October 7 terror attacks in Israel.
After covering the event where megaphones were used to chant in the faces of pro-Israel counter-protesters by those seemingly “celebrating” the slaughter of more than 1,300 people by Hamas, at least one of those incendiary attendees could be seen having followed Dillon to a parking garage.
“As I was leaving, two guys kept asking me my ethnicity,” she posted on X. “When I got into my car, I was approached by a group of the protesters demanding to know my address and phone number.”
She added her brief video of the tail of the interaction and wrote, “Here’s footage of the end of it once I grabbed my phone from my bag. You can hear me responding that they cannot have my number.”
In the clip, the unidentified woman can be heard asking the journalist, “How can I contact you for legal reasons?” before asserting that she would have her lawyers contact her adding in parting, “Have a terrible night.”
Here’s footage of the end of it once I grabbed my phone from my bag. You can hear me responding that they cannot have my number. pic.twitter.com/A2XGurJ4ti
— Kassy Dillon (@KassyDillon) October 12, 2023
Dillon later went on to share her report on the protest itself where Jewish students expressed their concern over the sentiments being blasted on campus.
One student named Olive said of the experience, “I was overwhelmed by how many people came out to support what I think is just terrible.”
“It’s a massacre of innocent civilians, and it should be strongly condemned, and instead they’re here celebrating this,” she went on.
(Video: Fox News Digital)
Another named Milana told the reporter, “They are supporting a terrorist organization. They are not supporting Palestinians who want peace with Israel. They are supporting a deep-rooted hate of Jews. It’s unjust.”
“I know a lot of people who wanted to go to Israel to fight,” UMass student Alyssa told Fox News Digital having lived in Israel for a year, “and I would want to fight right now, frankly, looking at this is disgusting.”
Meanwhile, as protesters echoed the chant “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” considered a call for the total elimination of Israel, speakers at the event made claims like “Resistance is justified when people are occupied,” and, “What did you expect would happen when you besieged Gaza for all of these decades!”
Promotion for the vent featured two men standing atop a tank waving a Palestinian flag with the message, “WE WILL BE MARCHING IN SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINIANS BREAKING OUT OF THEIR OPEN AIR PRISON.”
This is what I was covering btw. I was just filming. I didn’t even speak to anyone who followed me to the garage.
“Breaking out of their open-air prison.” pic.twitter.com/c5Vl35dlA3
— Kassy Dillon (@KassyDillon) October 13, 2023
Meanwhile, one of the anti-Israel attendees told Fox News Digital, “It was a very peaceful protest,” and argued “Some people came to try and make a scene.”
Similar protests happened outside New York schools like Columbia where the same chants were used calling to eliminate Israel.
Happing now : Students chant “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” during a protest on Columbia university campus in New York pic.twitter.com/8QKK1qefM3
— Davide Lerner (@DavideLerner) October 12, 2023
Peaceful was far from descriptive of a separate protest that took place in New York City the following day when a mob descended on Senate Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) Brooklyn Residence ahead of his own planned trip to Israel leading to dozens of arrests.
The call to action had been led by the far-left group Jewish Voice for Peace which had posted a demand to “Stop the genocide against Palestinians in Gaza,” as Israel retaliated against the terrorist organization Hamas.
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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