Ilya Bratman, executive director of Hillel at Baruch College, wasn’t shocked when Abdullah Mady, a self-proclaimed imam, led a walkout against him at an interfaith event at City College of New York on Nov. 13.

“That’s really what’s terrible about all of this,” Bratman told JNS. “We’re not surprised.”

The Hillel leader was part of a panel that included the imam and a school chaplain. Upstairs, a separate event featured a Holocaust survivor speaking about the anniversary of Kristallnacht.

“Almost all of the Jewish students were upstairs with the Kristallnacht event while the event for the rest of the college was downstairs,” Bratman said.

Some two Jewish students, 15 Christian ones and about 100 Muslim students were at the interfaith event, with about 50 clad in keffiyehs, by Bratman’s

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