Jewish “Friends” star David Schwimmer called out the anti-Israel and anti-Semitic nature of the recent “pro-Palestinian” protests that have taken over parts of college campuses across the country, saying that especially in the face of open anti-Semitism, “silence is complicity.”
Schwimmer has spoken out several times about the rising anti-Semitism — in America and worldwide — since the brutal and unprovoked terror attacks Hamas perpetrated against Israel on October 7 last year. This past week, he shared video of Jewish students who have faced verbal and even physical attacks from protesters on their college campuses.
“Jewish students across America are experiencing the worst attacks on their rights, dignity and safety in my lifetime,” Schwimmer began his caption. “While some of the protests are peaceful, the atmosphere is one of pervasive harassment, intimidation, segregation, hate speech, threats & acts of real violence.”
“If this were any other minority group the response would have been immediate outrage and action. And yet this antisemitism grows, spreading from middle school to high school to college campuses nationwide … Please show your support for your Jewish neighbors, friends and colleagues,” he added. “Silence is complicity.”
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Schwimmer included comments and testimony from Columbia University student Eden Yadegar, who said that the anti-Jewish sentiment had been there long before the protests erupted.
When asked during another interview to respond to the excuses being made by school administrations and officials — namely that any anti-Semitic attacks were outliers and the actions of “outside agitators,” Yadegar fired back.
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“There are stages of grief, right, so like at first there’s sadness and then there’s these different coping stages,” she said. “We are all LIVID to a degree that we have not been before because people are gaslighting us and telling us that our experiences are invalid and they are not real and that we’re misunderstanding them when we are the ones that have experienced these things.”
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