Darya Arad, a Cooper Union art student, created a series of paintings based on her Israeli family's connection to Kibbutz Nahal Oz following a Hamas attack on southern Israel in October 2023.

The author reflects on a situation where his daughter's classmate accused her of glorifying colonialism because of her paintings inspired by her wife's childhood in an Israeli kibbutz attacked by Hamas.

Jewish students at Cooper Union College in Manhattan felt unsafe when pro-Palestinian protesters banged on the locked door of the library where they were studying and chanted "Globalize the Intifada."