- Miss Israel Noa Cochva filmed herself carrying a ‘I am an IDK soldier’ sign
- Critics called her a war criminal and one person pulled out a knife
Miss Israel Noa Cochva has been criticized as a “war criminal” and had a knife pulled on her in New York while inviting people to ask her questions about her time in the IDF.
The beauty queen filmed herself carrying a sign that read “I am an IDF soldier.” Ask me anything in Washington Square Park on Monday.
One viewer criticized Cochva, telling the 25-year-old: “You’re a war criminal.” “How do you sleep at night?” one person asked.
Cochva responded: “I sleep very well because I know I’m on the right side of history.”
“I heard there was a Zionist here,” said a woman wearing a camouflage blouse and pants.
He then took out a knife and bit the cover in front of Cochva saying he works on a boat.
Miss Israel Noa Cochva filmed herself carrying a sign that read “I am an IDF soldier.” Ask me anything in Washington Square Park on Monday
One woman pulled out a knife as she approached Cochva’s group after saying, “I heard there was a Zionist here.”
The woman put her face in front of the camera saying “little Zionist” as the team tries to back away.
‘This is fucking stupid. You guys should go home,’ said one man. “I don’t think there can be peace now,” said another.
A U.S. Air Force soldier asked Cochva how he felt about having to join the military at a certain age.
‘It’s the best there is. When I did my duty, I felt like I had a great purpose,” Cochva said. Many people approached the beauty queen and thanked her for her service.
Cochva posted the video on Instagram along with an emotional response to the criticism.
The woman put her face in front of the camera saying “little Zionist” as the team tries to back away.
One person told Cochva: ‘This is f***ing stupid.’ You guys should go home.
“I stand with your people and I thank you for being so brave and showing it,” said one woman.
Cochva posted the video on Instagram along with an emotional response to the criticism.
‘The amount of hate people had towards me today. I was just trying to have peaceful conversations with them,” she said.
“But it’s a completely different experience to witness something like this. We can’t allow things like this to happen.”
“I don’t think there can be peace now,” another person told the beauty queen.
Cochva was crowned Miss Israel in 2021 and serves in the Israel Defense Forces
New York University students and professors went to Washington Square Park in April to protest Israel and Hamas’ war.
College campuses have been rocked by pro-Palestinian protests and some schools canceled graduation speeches as demonstrations turned anti-Semitic.
President Joe Biden condemned the “fierce rise of anti-Semitism” across the United States, including on college campuses, in a Holocaust memorial speech Tuesday.
“As Jews around the world still face the atrocities and trauma of that day and its aftermath, we have seen a fierce rise in anti-Semitism in the United States and around the world,” the president said during remarks at a commemoration ceremony. of the Holocaust in the United States. Capitol.
Biden defended Americans’ right to free speech but said violence had no place in the country.
“There is no place on any American campus, anywhere in America, for anti-Semitism or threats of violence of any era, whether against Jews or anyone else,” he said.
‘Destroying property is not a peaceful protest. It is against the law. We are not a lawless country. We are civil society.’
“We know that scapegoating and demonizing any minority is a threat to all minorities and to the very foundations of our democracy.”
