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Students from the UNC-Chapel Hill fraternity Pi Kappa Phi protected the American flag from anti-Israel protesters and later joined Fox News primetime.

Two fraternity brothers from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill's chapter of Pi Kappa Phi spoke to Fox News after footage of them defending the American flag from anti-Israel protesters who had already taken it down once went viral. Brendan Rosenblum told 'Jesse Watters Primetime' on Thursday that campus police along with Interim Chancellor Lee Roberts hoisted an American flag that had been taken down and replaced with a Palestinian banner.

Rosenblum said he and a friend named Trevor held the Israeli flag as the demonstrators menaced them, while other fraternity brothers held up the recently re-posted American flag as they were pelted with water bottles and accused of being White supremacists. 'I was told to kill myself about 50 times, called a White supremacist — a fascist.

 

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