Highlighting Olivia Reingold's tenacity

Wednesday night, Olivia Reingold went to New York City's Union Square to cover the so-called 'Pro-Palestinian protests.' They're really pro-Hamas or anti-Israel or antisemitic riots. I say this based on Ms. Reingold's article published in The Free Press. What Ms. Reingold wrote in the early part of the article isn't for the weak of stomach.

Ms. Reingold wrote "I had been at this particular protest in Union Square for about 45 minutes, watching and taking notes, when a man wearing a neck gaiter, sunglasses, and a Hezbollah flag fashioned as a headscarf suddenly pointed at me. 'She’s a Zionist!' he shouted. 'Get her out of here.'"

Then the article continued, saying "Immediately, dozens of protesters swarmed me, hoisting their keffiyehs high in the sky and boxing me in to block my view. Many of them were completely shrouded in keffiyehs and masks. A chorus of voices surrounded me, shoving me. 'Get the fuck out,' a woman yelled into my ear. 'The people are saying we don’t want you here.'"

This isn't protected free speech. It's implied threats:

Signage saying "Long live Oct. 7" aren't implicit threats. They're direct references to the Oct. 7 Hamas Massacre in Israel. There's nothing implicit about that and it shouldn't be tolerated. Rioters involved in that type of terrorism should be given a free police escort to the nearest police precinct. Further, in NYC, this shouldn't be considered a non-violent crime. This is plenty violent.

Check this out:

In the context of these protests across the country this week, this was very mild. For anyone visibly Jewish who happens to be near one of these mobs, or anyone like a security guard trying to keep peace, the interactions are often much more harrowing. Here are a few data points of the escalation over the last 24 hours.

• Yesterday at UCLA, a crowd of pro-Palestine protesters, most with makeshift shields, swarmed a security guard. As he tried to flee, one smacked him over the head with a smartphone, causing him to bleed.
• Later that night on campus, a masked protester berated UCLA Chabad Rabbi Dovid Gurevich, calling him a "pedophile rabbi," adding that "Israel is full of pedophiles." When Gurevich asked why he wouldn’t reveal his face, the man replied, "If I show my face, I’ll have to fucking kill you." Other protesters shouted at the rabbi and others: "Go back to Poland or Ukraine," "Go back to Europe," and "Death to fucking Zionism." Twenty-five protesters were arrested.
• More scenes were captured on video in Union Square in New York. One man yelled at a small crowd that had come out to support Israel, "I wish Hitler was still here, he would’ve wiped all you out."
• On Wall Street, the protest mob chanted "Israel go to hell" outside an exhibition memorializing the Nova Music Festival, where Hamas murdered 364 innocents. As the crowd took its "citywide day of rage for Gaza" downtown via the subway, one protester proclaimed on the train, "Raise your hands if you’re a Zionist. This is your chance to get out."

Talk about outright vulgarity. The people saying that they wished Hitler were still alive should be put in prison for 50 years. They shouldn't be shown mercy. Period.