A New York City Councilwoman was arrested after she carried a gun on her waist while attending a pro-Palestine rally at CUNY’s Brooklyn College.
Republican Brooklyn Councilwoman Inna Vernikov, who is Jewish, surrendered to the NYPD early Friday after her appearance at the school’s Flatbush campus, where hundreds gathered in support of Palestine after Hamas’ attack left more than 1,000 Israelis dead .
Officials reportedly contacted her to inform her that she was being charged with criminal possession of a weapon, The New York Post reported.
Vernikov, 39, was released on a desk appearance ticket and ordered to surrender her gun, a Smith & Wesson 9 millimeter, as well as her concealed carry license, which she obtained just last month.
While she had a license, it is a Class E felony to bring a gun into a protest or school site, which are considered “sensitive places.”
“I’m here at the pro-Hamas rally in Brooklyn College. There’s a ton of police and we’ve made sure the Jewish students feel safe today, but here they’re yelling and screaming ‘Intifada, globalize the Intifida!’ Vernikov said on a video of the protest posted on X.
“If you are here today standing with these people, you are nothing less than a terrorist without the bombs,”
Vernikov represents Brighton Beach, Sheepshead Bay and nearby neighborhoods, and sits on the Council’s Standards and Ethics Committee.
The CUNY4Palestine X account shared images of the board member and her gun and wrote: ‘At today’s rally on Brooklyn College campus led by the students in their SJP chapter, Inna Vernikov showed up and showed a gun to Palestinian students and their allies exhibited.
“This is the tactic of violence and intimidation used by Zionist groups to silence any support for Palestine.”
Brooklyn College’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter is just one of many across the country that have mobilized to justify the Hamas attack on Israel, arguing that Israel is to blame for the violence.
Harvard found itself in hot water after 31 of its student organizations signed a letter holding the Israeli regime fully responsible for all unfolding violence.’
In their statement on Sunday, the groups said the attack that left more than 1,000 dead “did not happen in a vacuum,” claiming that the Israeli government had forced Palestinians to live in an open-air prison for more than two decades. live
California State University’s La Fuerza Student Association has been slammed for its ‘sickening’ and distasteful pro-Palestine protest poster (pictured) depicting a paraglider
Nazis, Nazis, Nazis, one man in a keffiyeh with Palestinian colors repeatedly chanted at the counter-protesters.
Perfume giant Jo Malone has distanced himself from company founder Jo Malone after DailyMail.com revealed he was a leader of the group, the Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee.
Harvard President Claudine Gay issued a message Thursday condemning the “barbaric atrocities committed by Hamas,” but rejected calls to punish and name the students who signed the inflammatory statement, saying the school “embraces a commitment to free expression.’
Gay previously said, ‘While our students have the right to speak for themselves, no student group — not even 30 student groups — speaks for Harvard University or its leadership.’
Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman claimed that co-CEOs want to know who they are, so ‘none of us accidentally hires any of their members’.
The CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management said he had been approached by a number of CEOs, adding: “One should not be able to hide behind a corporate shield when issuing statements supporting the actions of terrorists, which, we now learned, decapitated babies, among other unimaginably despicable acts.’
The statement was signed by several other groups on the notoriously left-wing campus, including Koreans for Decolonization and Central Americans for Empowerment
On Tuesday, around 150 people, waving placards and Palestinian flags, occupied the steps of Cambridge City Hall.
“Animals, animals, you pigs, animals, Nazis, Nazis, Nazis,” one man in a Palestinian-colored keffiyeh shouted at them, wagging his finger across the thin line of police separating the groups.
Meanwhile, the University of California at Berkeley’s ‘Bears for Palestine’ group expressed support for Hamas’s actions and condemned ‘the framing of Israel as a victim’ hours after the terrorist organisation’s attack.
The group will host a vigil for ‘martyrs in Palestine’ on Friday, and promoted Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) calls for a ‘Day of Resistance’ across university campuses on Thursday in support of the Hamas attacks.
The Palestine Solidarity Committee holds banners outside the prestigious college
The ‘Day of Resistance’ on Thursday saw several Jewish students at the University of Washington in tears as they pleaded with an administrator to end the pro-Palestinian rally, where students condoned violence against Israel and the Jewish people has.
‘They want our people dead. They want us killed,’ sobbed one student to an administrator who appeared to be listening but indicated there was something he could do.
The event at the campus’s red square was advertised by a radical student group who said their aim was to ‘raise the righteous Palestinian resistance’ and ‘condemn the colonial state of Israel’.
Flyers for the event include a drawing of a paraglider similar to the one used by militant Hamas terrorists to fly into southern Israel last Saturday and slaughter scores of innocent concertgoers.
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A house left in ruins after an attack by Hamas militants on this kibbutz days earlier when dozens of civilians were killed near the border with Gaza.
At NYU, the president of the Law School Bar Association had a job offer from a pro-LGBTQ+ law firm revoked after she declared that Hamas’ slaughter of children in Israel was ‘necessary’.
Ryna Workman, 24, a non-binary student at NYU’s School of Law, sent out a weekly newsletter saying that the killing of innocent Israeli children, women and civilians over the past week was Israel’s “full responsibility.”
On Tuesday, the law firm Winston & Strawn — which regularly highlights its legal work representing the LGBTQ+ community — told DailyMail.com in a statement that its offer of employment to Workman had been rescinded.
The number of US citizens confirmed dead in the Israel-Hamas war has risen to at least 25. American citizens are among the estimated 150 hostages taken by Hamas militants during their shocking weekend attack on Israel, President Joe Biden confirmed Tuesday.
The war has already claimed at least 2,200 lives on both sides.