Ryan Albom, 22, was standing just outside the student centre of York University’s Keele St. campus, watching a pro Palestinian rally last Monday when one of his friends pulled out an Israeli flag — and held it up.
At first, no one seemed to notice. Or care, says Albom, a student president of Hillel York, the Jewish students union. But as the rally drew to a close and the crowd disbursed and thinned, one of the protesters turned around, he said, and called Albom and his friend “terrorists.”
“We just stood there,” Albom said. “It was scary and we just didn’t feel comfortable saying anything.”
