Pro-Palestine students surround reporter and demand to know her ethnicity
The students threatened the woman with lawyers if she continued to cover their protest
The shocking moment anti-Israel campaigners surround a reporter and demand to know her ethnicity was caught on camera.
Fox News journalist Kassy Dillon was covering a pro-Palestine protest at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst on Thursday night. Dillon says she was leaving the protest when she was approached by two men.
She says they asked for details about her ethnicity. The protesters then demanded to know her address and phone number, before threatening to call-in lawyers if she continued to cover the protest.
The students were holding a "Day of Resistance" protest with marches, flags, and posters. Dillon said she was accompanied by security guards at the time of the incident.
Here’s footage of the end of it once I grabbed my phone from my bag. You can hear me responding that they cannot have my number. pic.twitter.com/A2XGurJ4ti
— Kassy Dillon (@KassyDillon) October 12, 2023
A video shared by Dillon shows a group stood around her as she tells them she will not be giving out her number. Then, as they leave, one of the protesters wishes the journalist "has a terrible day".
Writing on the social media platform X, Dillon said: "Just left the anti-Israel protest at UMass Amherst. As I was leaving, two guys kept asking me my ethnicity. When I got into my car, I was approached by a group of the protesters demanding to know my address and phone number.
"I was just filming. I didn’t even speak to anyone who followed me to the garage."
The protest at UMass was accompanied by an opposition pro-Israel demonstration. Speaking to Fox News, Jewish student Olive said: "I was overwhelmed by how many people came out to support what I think is just terrible.
"It’s a massacre of innocent civilians, and it should be strongly condemned, and instead they’re here celebrating this."
