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NY Post's Reuven Fenton visits the site of Hamas’ bloody Oct. 7 siege
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2:02Now PlayingNY Post reporter Reuven Fenton shares this story from Israel:
As I weave my way through the forest of pole-mounted portraits commemorating the 364 victims of the Nova Festival massacre in southern Israel, I study their dewy, youthfully-confident faces and come to a startling realization.
The portraits of the dead – with their dreadlocks and septum rings and TikTok-perfect makeup – are facsimiles of the very population I jetted 5,700 miles to the Middle East to get away from.
These are the Columbia activists.
Not the actual activists — the ones who tented up on the quad and barricaded themselves in Hamilton Hall and screamed holy hell when the cops cracked down.
But when I line up the common denominators between both sets of kids — the youth and progressivism and infatuation with influence — I can only assume the Nova crowd and the Columbia crowd would have gotten along fabulously in different circumstances.
One Nova victim, a young man named Zur Saidi, even wore a Palestinian neck keffiyeh in his portrait.
I’m in Israel this week with other journalists on a tour sponsored by the Jerusalem Press Club, an organization that assists local and foreign press in covering the country. We’re mostly visiting locations relevant to October 7th and its aftermath, and Day One has been a doozy: aside from the Nova Festival site, we’ve gone to Kibbutz Kfar Aza — 64 dead, 19 kidnapped — and an automobile graveyard stacked with cars Hamas incinerated along with the bodies of murdered Israelis still inside them.
But everywhere I go, I can’t get those Columbia kids out of my mind. Everything I see reminds me of them, and everyone I meet reminds me who they are not — neither heroes nor victims, but cowards and frauds unworthy of the headlines they made around the globe.
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