During a pro-Israel protest near the Tulane campus, a Jewish student draped in an Israeli flag was attacked by two pro-Hamas demonstrators, one of whom punched him repeatedly, while the other hit him with a megaphone, breaking his nose. During a pro-Israel protest near the Tulane campus, a Jewish student draped in an Israeli flag was attacked by two pro-Hamas demonstrators, one of whom punched him repeatedly, while the other hit him with a megaphone, breaking his nose.

As Israel celebrates its 67th birthday with Wednesday’s Independence Day, students and faculty members across many American college campuses are marking the day known in Hebrew as "Yom Ha’atzmaut."