Adi Karni (23), a discharged IDF reservist who served in Gaza and Lebanon, says he was fired from a summer camp in New York and chased from one country to another after pro-Palestinian groups circulated arrest warrants and harassment campaigns against him. In an interview with C14, Karni describes how he turned the experience into a pro-Israel advocacy campaign, setting up campus booths in the US with a sign reading 'I am an Israeli soldier — ask me anything.'
In an interview published Wednesday by C14, Adi Karni recounts the personal price he paid for his IDF service after returning to civilian life. Karni told The Zioneer-affiliated reporter Na'ama Rachlis that he received a call from the Foreign Ministry warning him to flee immediately from a country where he was being hunted. He says arrest warrants were issued against him in four countries and that antisemitic organizations tracked his every move. The turning point came in New York, where Karni says he was fired from a summer camp position and thrown onto the street without support solely because he was an IDF combat soldier. 'For them, I finished a genocide and came to work with children,' he said of the hostile reception. Rather than retreating, Karni launched a counter-campaign: he set up a booth at some of the most hostile US university campuses with a sign that reads 'I am an Israeli soldier, ask me anything.' He reports experiencing violence, curses, and one extreme incident that reached 6 million views and was covered by Tehran news, when a Gazan student attacked his booth. 'They talk about starvation, and I show them videos I filmed with my own hands from Gaza of aid trucks entering,' he explains. Karni says he is self-funding the campaign, sleeping on couches in Jewish communities, and doing it for friends who did not survive Gaza. 'So their sacrifice won't be in vain,' he said.
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