'I saw a girl get grabbed by the neck and shoved, I saw my friend get spat at, and I saw just how much anger and hatred they had towards us at this moment,' she recalled. On Feb. 26 hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters smashed the door glass door of UC Berkeley's Zellerbach Playhouse as an Israeli speaker was about to address Jewish students. The demonstration appears to have been organized by a student group Bears for Palestine.
On Monday the university announced it's investigating the incident as a hate crime, slamming the protest as 'unacceptable.'But Knafelman said she's been feeling uneasy for a while now by things like the Palestinian flags blocking the university's iconic Sather Gate.'Almost every time I see it, I do have a visceral reaction to it,' she said. 'It does make me feel extremely uncomfortable.'And it's not just at Berkeley.
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