Noa Fay, a Jewish student attending Columbia University, compared anti-Israel Jews on her campus to “Blacks for Trump and Gays for Trump” on CNN Monday night.

Speaking with Abby Phillip, Fay said that the months following Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel have been “really difficult.”

“One of the things that your classmates will say is that they are protesting Zionism, which is specifically this movement to create, to develop, to support a Jewish state. Is it legitimate, in your view, to protest Zionism specifically?” asked Phillip.

“Absolutely not, and there there are many different ways you can look at this. But number one is that Zionism makes — the Jewish people, 80% of them are, identify as Zionist, potentially more,” answered Fay. “We know that Zionism, which is the the Jewish right to self-determination in our historic homeland, is inextricably linked to our religion.”

“At least at Columbia, we do not protest any form of any person’s right to self-determination. There’s no other movement, there’s no other self-determination movement that is protested that I’ve seen, definitely not at Columbia,” she continued. “So for this to be the only movement that is taken issue with amongst the students and that it’s the Jewish movement is inherently anti-Semitic.”

Later, Phillip noted that “there are Jewish students who are part of the pro-Palestinian protests” and that Fay has “compared them to Blacks for Trump, gays for Trump.”

“It’s fair?” inquired Phillip.

“Yeah, of course it’s fair,” shot back Fay. “I mean, I say take them as seriously as we all take Blacks for Trump and gays for Trump. And I think it’s absolutely a fair, a fair comparison. It’s the same tokenization that we’re seeing and in terms of our perception of them, that’s that’s absolutely how seriously we should take them. They don’t represent our community and they’ve been tokenized.”

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