UNC frat brothers who defended US flag speak out: 'Deeply important to us'

Brendan Rosenblum sounds off on 'Jesse Watters Primetime' after anti-Israel mob tries to desecrate national emblem.

Two fraternity brothers from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill's chapter of Pi Kappa Phi spoke to Fox News after footage of them defending the American flag from anti-Israel protesters who had already taken it down once went viral.

Brendan Rosenblum told "Jesse Watters Primetime" on Thursday that campus police along with Interim Chancellor Lee Roberts hoisted an American flag that had been taken down and replaced with a Palestinian banner. Eventually, Roberts and the campus police had to leave the quad, and when they did, Rosenblum and his fellow fraternity members stepped in and held up the American flag as protesters chanted, threw projectiles and flipped the bird at them. A GoFundMe was set up in the fraternity's honor and had by Thursday evening amassed close to $500,000.

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Rosenblum said he and a friend named Trevor held the Israeli flag as the demonstrators menaced them, while other fraternity brothers held up the recently re-posted American flag as they were pelted with water bottles and accused of being White supremacists.

"I was told to kill myself about 50 times, called a White supremacist — a fascist. It was a really troubling scene, but we stood there strong, representing what we believe in," Rosenblum told Watters, who referred to the UNC chaos and the nationwide demonstrations collectively as "Arab Spring Break."

On "The Ingraham Angle," another frat brother, Isaac Maleh, said he is an Orthodox Jew and that he was originally on the quad near the protesters because he is Jewish. However, he said, it soon became