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This Lone IDF Soldier Was Assaulted at DePaul and Is Still Speaking Out on Campus
Kylie Ora Lobell
February 24, 2025

When October 7 happened, IDF reservist and lone soldier Max Long was called up for duty. He was set to go to DePaul University the next month, but he knew he probably wouldn’t make it back in time. He gave up the apartment he had leased in Chicago and served in the IDF’s explosives unit, which dealt with the explosives Hamas left behind in the kibbutzim…The lone soldier returned to campus in the fall of 2024. After seeing the encampments, as well as hearing about students – including Jews wearing custom yarmulkes that said, “Stop the Genocide” – holding a rally for the “martyrs,” the terrorists from October 7, he decided he needed to do something. Before Rosh Hashanah, he gave out apples and honey to his fellow students and set up a table on campus. He put a sign up that said, “Come talk about Israel with an IDF soldier.” At first, it was positive. READ MORE

EYEWITNESS NEWS CHICAGO IDF reservist concerned about safety as DePaul student after hate crime attack Max Long is in Israel to attend services for two of his fallen IDF comrades. He told the ABC7 I-Team he has had to drop a class at DePaul University after a pro-Palestinian group handed out flyers that target him by name. The “Behind Enemy Lines” flyer accuses the IDF soldier and DePaul student of genocide in a written challenge to their ban from campus. Long and another Jewish student, Michael Kaminsky, were attacked in early November by two masked men in what Chicago police have called a hate crime.