When four anti-Israel, masked protesters with keffiyehs disrupted Claremont Hillel’s Oct. 7 commemoration at Pomona College in southern California on Oct. 15, Jill Stark’s “first instinct was to protect the students,” the director of community relations at the Hillel told JNS.

“That was why I just went and I stood there,” she said.

Video footage that circulated on social media showed people forming a barrier to block the anti-Israel protesters from entering the room further. Stark was among those people.

She told JNS that protesters “dressed like Hamas terrorists” shouted statements like “Zionists are not welcome here” and “you’re all complicit in genocide” at the event, which included a survivor of the Oct. 7 attacks who showed photos and footage from that day.

“They were reading from

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