Man busted at Columbia protest accused of burning Israeli flag

WPIX via Yahoo ^ | May 2, 2024 | Mira Wassef

[grundle]

A man who was arrested during the Columbia University protests on Tuesday is also accused of stealing and burning an Israeli flag during a Manhattan protest last month, police and sources said Thursday.

James Carlson, 40, of Brooklyn, was arrested Wednesday and charged with criminal mischief, arson, and criminal possession of stolen property in connection to the April 20 incident, according to the NYPD.

Carlson allegedly took the 22-year-old man’s Israeli flag and lit it on fire during a protest near West 116th Street and Amsterdam Avenue at around 10 p.m., authorities said.

The victim followed Carlson and two accomplices into the crowd when one of the accomplices threw a rock at the man’s face, police said. The victim suffered minor injuries and refused medical attention at the scene.

The other two suspects have not been arrested, police said.

Sources said Carlson was among the protesters arrested at Columbia University Tuesday night. He was charged with criminal trespassing.

Carlson was arraigned in the flag and protest incidents on Thursday and released without bail, according to court records.

[rmlew]

I go through past comments to see if someone being silly/ignorant or actually an antisemite. It affects how I answer. I try to limit vitriol to actual antisemites, as much as it pains me to suffer fools. I went to a Columbia thread because, I am an alumnus and attended a counter-protest at Columbia

[one guy in new jersey]

“The Nazi-allied fascist regimes in Slovakia and Croatia were Catholic. In fact, Slovakia was run by a Catholic Priest, Josef Tiso”

With these two examples have you not cited the exceptions that prove the rule of firm Catholic opposition to antisemitism?

[rmlew]

With these two examples have you not cited the exceptions that prove the rule of firm Catholic opposition to antisemitism?
I showed limited Catholic complicity with the Holocaust. Do you want me to go over antisemitism since the Christianity became the established religion of Rome under Constantine? As late as 1857, the Catholic Church helped kidnap and convert Jewish children. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortara_case

[one guy in new jersey]

You continue to mention rare exceptions proving the historic rule of peaceful toleration by Catholics, the Catholic Church, and majority Catholic countries of practicing Jews. As well, by the way, of unconverted non-practicing ethnic Jews such as may be found within secular society.