‘They’re going to have to tear me off this flag over my dead body,’ Stompel said. 

By Vered Weiss, World Israel News

A University of North Carolina student  who defended the US flag from anti-Israel protesters said he was willing to put his life on the line and said they would have had to take the flag “over my dead body.”

Like many other US campuses, the quad of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was attacked by anti-Israel protesters who descended on a flag flying at half mast to commemorate four Charlotte officers who were killed in the line of duty.

At one point, the protesters removed the American flag and replaced it with a Palestinian flag.

That was when Dan Stompel along with his Pi Kappa Phi fraternity brothers sprang into action.

Stompel, who is a junior majoring in political science, recalled thinking, “I don’t understand how people can act like this.”

Only a few dozen students faced hundreds and held onto the American flag, protecting it from clutching hands of demonstrators as they waited for the police to arrive on the scene.

For an hour, Stompel and his friends were cursed, had hard objects, including rocks and bottles, thrown at them while they clutched the flag to protect it until police arrived to restore the peace so the flag could be flown once again.

Stompel recalled watching out for objects and how the guys warned each other when something new was sent flying.

He also discussed the sheer physical strength required to fend off the demonstrators.

Stompel told FoxNews Digital, “It did hurt our arms. It was like an ‘arm day’ [workout] for me that day. There was no gym happening that day afterwards. It was exhausting. It was beautiful moment.”

“It shows that, …based on the people there, nice, normal, strong boys protecting America’s flag. There’s nothing more patriotic, nothing more genuine, nothing more inspiring than that,” he said.

He added, “I was like, ‘I’d die for this flag.’ And everybody was like, ‘Yeah.’ If they got any closer that we’re going to start throwing hands. We’re not going anywhere, I don’t care. They’re going to have to tear me off this flag over my dead body,” Stompel said.

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There are echoes here of the flag at Ground Zero and of the Star-Spangled Banner.

By Daniel Greenfield, Frontpage Magazine

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I’ve written quite a bit since 9/11 about where I expected the growing battle between America and Islamic terrorists to go, but this is still a stunning moment.

There’s the NYPD reclaiming a portion of a New York City campus, lowering a terror flag and raising the American flag again.

There are echoes here of the flag at Ground Zero and of the Star-Spangled Banner.

This is literally a battle for our country being fought on college campuses between the NYPD and Islamic terrorists and their Marxist allies.

It’s all the more stunning in contrast to what’s going on in Los Angeles at UCLA.

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No one in the LAPD is talking in these terms. The LAPD is refusing to answer calls from people under attack by Hamas supporters.

As bad as Mayor Eric Adams and the NYPD may be in some ways, they’re still fighting where most police forces in liberal cities have surrendered or switched sides.

We will remember moments like this in the years to come and they may well define the final outcome.

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