‘Laughing’ Culprits Caught ‘Violently Tearing Down’ Posters of Israeli Kidnapping Victims Are Two New York University Students

‘I found it increasingly difficult to know my place as a biracial brown woman,’ one of the women says in apology for the vandalism. ‘My actions that were caught on camera are a poor representation of what I believe.’

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The NYU campus at New York in December 2021. AP/Seth Wenig

The individuals who tore down paper flyers memorializing those kidnapped at Israel, including children and babies, have been identified by an antisemitism watchdog group as two New York University undergraduates and a staff employee of the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

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