More than once, something we've seen from pro-Hamas groups has been a call for a global “Day of Rage.”
CBN reports the most recent call was for Tuesday of this week.
Officials in Israel warned Jews who are traveling around the world they could be sought out and violently attacked, as has happened in months past.
Officials have advised people to avoid showing their Jewish symbols and to avoid protest areas that are pro-Hamas.
Sophia Witt is executive vice president of Students Supporting Israel. She said in an interview with AFN the concept of a 'day of rage' is not new.
“They've had plenty of cry-baby sessions where they claim that they are doing a day of rage, and basically it's just an antagonizing day against Jews. It’s a fear-mongering tactic to make Jewish people uncomfortable across the world, and usually it works."
Despite the other side, Witt said her team at Students Supporting Israel is more outspokenly Jewish, especially on days where they are supposed to be fearful or intimidated.
"I think that this is just really a ploy to instill fear. It reminds me of, I don't remember what the movie is called, The Purge?"
“The Purge” is a 2013 film in which a futuristic government allows a 12-hour period of “legal” crime, including murder, to reduce crime and unemployment rates for the rest of the year.
Unfortunately, Witt said she has not seen anti-Israel campus protest groups denounce the violence.
“I haven't seen anybody say, ‘we're against any kind of physical violence.’ The only groups that you'll ever see doing that are the pro-Israel, Jewish, and Zionist groups, calling for the de-escalation of physical threat and violence.”
No opposition for 'Day of Rage'
Free speech offers a number of nonviolent ways to protest, but no one is interested in taking on “Day of Rage.”
“I haven't see a single Students for Justice in Palestine, Jewish Voices for Peace, I haven't seen any of them calling out this 'Day of Rage' and saying this is not OK, we have free speech, let's do protests, let's do demonstrations, but let's not get physical or cause fear among the Jewish population,’” Witt said.
Witt noted that in the past two weeks, she has seen 'apartheid week' popping up on different campuses. She said this is this is Students for Justice in Palestine's attempt to delegitimize Israel by calling it an apartheid state.
This is “as we know, is a false claim,” Witt said.
