According to Deri, punches were thrown at pro-Israel attendees as the protest intensified. “There were 20 or 30 police officers that came and arrests were made,” he said.

Some of the Jewish students also had to be escorted off campus by police for protection.Deri warned that this sort of behavior will spread to other campuses. “It’s time to wake up and realize this,” he said, adding that this has not deterred them. “We will continue to speak - we will never be afraid to do so.”

Shar Leyb, who was one of the Reservists on Duty speakers at the event told the Post that they knew there would be a lot of protests leading up to the event. “There were hundreds of protests on campus that read ‘stop the IDF killers on campus,’ and ‘we do not let Zionists on York University campus,’” he explained. “As we were setting up, we heard some chanting outside and sure enough there were hundreds of Palestinians and their supporters, including Antifa and BDS, chanting ‘Intifada Intifada, go back to the ovens, you belong in Europe.’”

Aboud Dandachi, a current student and Syrian Refugee, confirmed the above in a series of tweets.