UNC student seen 保護物，者ing the US 旗 from anti-イスラエル 暴徒 speaks out

One of the University of North Carolina fraternity brothers who was seen guarding the US 旗 from プロの／賛成の-パレスチナ 抗議する人s says he would've 保護するd it with his life. A few dozen members of the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity took it upon themselves to 保護物，者 the 旗 on Tuesday at UNC Chapel Hill where 抗議する人s at one point 取って代わるd it with the Palestinian 旗. Dan Stompel, a political science student at the school, told Fox News he and other fraternity brothers held the 旗 up for over an hour until police arrived to （疑いを）晴らす the hundreds of 抗議する人s.

The junior said: 'I was like, "I’d die for this 旗." And everybody was like, "Yeah." If they got any closer we're going to start throwing 手渡すs. We're not going anywhere, I don't care. They're going to have to 涙／ほころび me off this 旗 over my dead 団体／死体.' Stompel （人命などを）奪う，主張するd that as he 保護物，者d the 旗, 抗議する人s tried to 脅迫してさせる them and began throwing 反対するs at them. 'We're looking at every direction. If stuff was 飛行機で行くing in, we would say, "長，率いるs up.’" We would cover each other. We would look out for other people… 'And it did 傷つける our 武器. It was like an ‘arm day’ [workout] for me that day. There was no gym happening that day afterwards. It was [a] exhausting. It was beautiful moment.'

The student 追加するd: 'It shows that, …based on the people there, nice, normal, strong boys 保護するing America's 旗. There's nothing more 愛国的な, nothing more 本物の, nothing more 奮起させるing than that.' After （映画の）フィート数 of the frat brothers went viral, a GoFundMe was 始める，決める up to throw them a party. As of Thursday morning, it has collected more than $330,123, with 億万長者 法案 Ackman 寄付するing $10,000. 'These boys... no, men, of the UNC Chapel Hill Pi Kappa Phi, gave the best to America and now they deserve the best,' the GoFundMe reads. 'Help us raise 基金s to throw this frat the party they deserve, a party 価値（がある） of the boat-shoed Broleteriat who did their co untry proud.'

Guillermo Estrada, another of the young men seen 保護物，者ing the 旗, said the day had been 'sad yet 権力を与えるing,' and that he had become upset after seeing the Palestinian 旗 raised on campus. He wrote: 'I cannot say I am fully educated on the イスラエル/パレスチナ 衝突 but it upset me that my country's 旗 was disrespected ーするために 支持する for another. 'すぐに after, （ドイツなどの）首相／（大学の）学長 Roberts （機の）カム with police officers to hang the 旗 once again. They were met with profanity, middle fingers, thrown 瓶／封じ込めるs, 激しく揺するs, and water. 'When the 旗 was raised once again, the Greek community began singing the 国家の 国家. As the （ドイツなどの）首相／（大学の）学長 left, the quad 爆発するd into 大混乱 as protestors began 除去するing the 旗 once again, 準備するing to destroy it.

'My fraternity brother and others ran over to 持つ／拘留する it up, in order for it not to touch the ground. People began throwing water 瓶／封じ込めるs at us, 激しく揺するs, sticks, calling us profane 指名するs. We stood for an hour defending the 旗 so many fight to 保護する. 'My parents started a new life in the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs, a country that has helped them 繁栄する and raise two kids. I grew up in a 軍の community and saw first 手渡す the sacrifices they make. I will not stand for the disrespect these "protestors" 原因（となる） for the sake of another country. 'My LDOC will be memorable in knowing that my fraternity brothers and others fought to keep the 旗 up. But it was also memorable in knowing that so many yearn to disrespect it.

Ano ther frat member, Alex Jones, said on X: 'For me, 保護するing the 旗 was not about taking a 姿勢 within the 現在進行中の イスラエル-パレスチナ discourse.?'I 認める the 苦痛 and 苦しむing experienced by both 味方するs of that 衝突. But my 決定／判定勝ち（する） yesterday to 保護する the 旗 of the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs was not about any other nation. It was 簡単に about the importance of our country and the values we believe in. 'I believe in the 権利 to 解放する／自由な speech and 平和的な 抗議する. I am 栄誉（を受ける）d to give 支援する to the nation that has given me and my family countless 適切な時期s. 'I 借りがある everything to the hard work of my parents and this 広大な／多数の／重要な nation, and I am proud to be の中で those who stood up for it yesterday. I am proud to be an American.'

一方／合間, Brendan Rosenblum, a Junior, told On Balance With Leland Vittert that 'it was important that I stood there with the Israeli 旗 because イスラエル and America work 味方する by 味方する.'?Rosenblum 追加するd: 'Fraternity members get a bad 非難する, but in the end, we have a brotherhood and a belief of who we are. All of us felt that America and the American 旗 and, for me, the Israeli 旗 代表するd what we believe in. 'And we weren't going to let anyone stop us from keeping those two things up and 代表するing for what we believe in.' にもかかわらず the 大規模な support they have received, some have pointed to a ビデオ that shows some of the fraternity members appear to call a 女性（の） 抗議する人 a [expletive] as they 教える her to 'lose some 負わせる.' に引き続いて the 大混乱 on the Chapel Hill campus, classes were 取り消すd for the 残り／休憩（する） of the day and 非，不，無-義務的な 操作／手術s were 一時停止するd.

Police had moved in to （疑いを）晴らす out an 野営 and 拘留するd some of the protestors in a 緊張した 対決. The Daily Tar Heel 報告（する）／憶測d that 36 people protestors were 拘留するd within the 野営. Six of those 36 were later 逮捕（する）d and 輸送（する）d to the 地元の 治安判事's office, the 出口 said, with all six 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金d trespassing before 存在 解放（する）d. The university said three of those 逮捕（する）d had been students, while the other three were not (v)提携させる(n)支部，加入者d with the school. In a 声明 Roberts said: 'For the last several months, we have spoken 定期的に and respectfully with the デモ参加者／実演宣伝者s on our campus, 終始一貫して supporting their 権利 to 組み立てる／集結する and 表明する their 見解（をとる）s.?'We have been （疑いを）晴らす that students and community members can 組み立てる／集結する and make their 発言する／表明するs heard, but University 政策s must be followed. 'During events in 最近の weeks, the student デモ参加者／実演宣伝者s がまんするd by our 政策s.

'That changed Sunday evening when 抗議する人s - 含むing outside 行動主義者s -- backtracked on their かかわり合い to 従う with these 政策s, 含むing trespassing into classroom buildings 夜通し. 'This group has now made it （疑いを）晴らす they will no longer even consider our requests to がまんする by University 政策s and have ended our 試みる／企てるs at 建設的な 対話.' In a 類似の fashion, police in New York City 回復するd the American 旗 after protestors at City College of New York raised a パレスチナ 旗 on the campus. （映画の）フィート数 taken on the ground shows one officer 投げ上げる／ボディチェックするing the 旗 aside before later raising Old Glory on the flagpole.?Speaking at a 圧力（をかける） 会議／協議会 on Wednesday morning, 市長 Eric Adams berated the schools for 許すing the 飛行機で行くing of the 旗. He said: 'That's our 旗 folks, it might be 罰金 to some people but not to me. My uncle died defending this country. 'It's despicable that schools will 許す another country's 旗 to 飛行機で行く in our country. So 非難する me for 存在 proud to be American. We are not 降伏するing our way of life.'

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