Two Brooklyn College volleyball players kneeled during playing of the Israeli national anthem at a game against Yeshiva University, a private Jewish educational institution in New York City, earlier this week.
In doing so the players, identified as Hunnan Butt and Omar Rezika, seemed to echo similar examples of athletes making political protests during the US anthem, most notably the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick.
Reports of the incident surfaced amid a rightwing push to suppress criticism of Israel and the occupation of Palestine at US public universities. Brooklyn College is a public institution.