Overview

• A viral video from July 31 shows a female student shouting “F*ck Israel, Free Palestine” and shoving a Jewish classmate wearing an IDF shirt at FSU’s Leach Student Recreation Center.
• President Richard McCullough swiftly suspended the alleged assailant and barred her from campus pending an expulsion hearing under the university’s Student Code of Conduct.
• The case is being probed in parallel by FSU police and the Student Conduct and Community Standards department alongside a DOJ Civil Rights Division and U.S. Attorney’s Office investigation into possible civil rights and criminal charges.
• StopAntisemitism flagged the incident on social media within minutes, demanding the student’s expulsion and prompting FSU’s rapid disciplinary response.
• StopAntisemitism has identified the alleged attacker as graduate student Eden Deckerhoff, whose mother is a teaching professor in FSU’s College of Social Work.