Neishlos, whose grandparents survived the Holocaust, told the audience of Congresspeople, Israeli representatives, and Jewish and Christian leaders of growing up as a grandson of Holocaust survivors.
One witness described the harrowing experience of hearing widespread calls for the annihilation of the Jewish people and relentless attacks on Israel, which was supposed to be a safe haven for Jews.
The plaintiffs said antisemitism had been a "growing institutional problem" at NYU even before the war between Israel and Hamas began last month, and has since gotten worse.
Following the rise of antisemitism on college campuses, the Education Department conducts a briefing with Jewish organizational leaders. These leaders release their statements as well.
The following day, an inert grenade was found at Holocaust Memorial Park in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, and a false bomb threat was called into Central Synagogue in Midtown Manhattan.
The memorial focuses on the dangerous efforts made by ordinary Danish citizens who risked their own lives to save Jews during the Nazi occupation of the country.
Starting at the Esplanade des Invalides, people marched quietly for almost three hours, across the Latin quarter to the Luxembourg Palace of the Senate.
Former Pink Floyd front man Roger Waters is set to perform in Argentina, but following controversial statements made about Israel and Hamas, his hotel bookings seem to have been canceled.
This marks the third time in less than a week that a Jewish school in Montreal was hit amid heightened tensions over the conflict between Israel and Hamas.
"We do not want people who are heirs to a party founded by former collaborators [with Nazi Germany] to be present,” said the leader of a major Jewish umbrella organization in France.
French Jews, who have been suffering from a huge wave of antisemitism, added: "The CRIF would like to remind everyone of Hamas's responsibility for the deaths of Palestinian civilians."